In recent days we have witnessed the advance of a good part of the smartphones that will populate the market in the coming weeks and will serve to star this year. However, some of the teams have arrived orphans of a certain appeal. The very interesting Huawei Ascend P2 has had to be seen with wet gunpowder, since one of its strengths is the presence of a connectivity system that allows you to download data with tips of 150 Mbps and upload information at 100 Mbps. It is the LTE category 4 function, which lacks commercial support and infrastructure in our country in all ranges.
And is that during the past Mobile World Congress 2013 not only talked about terminals, but also networks. In this sense, Vodafone did not fail to refer to the saga of the LTE despligue in our country, subject to regulatory and sentenced to the rate that marks the allocation of frequencies, right now, are used to signal digital terrestrial television. During a dinner with journalists held within the framework of the telephony fair, Francisco Román, president of Vodafone Spain, and Antonio Coimbra, CEO of the company, referred to the situation, noting that the operator will maintain the agenda set by the Government.
This is subject to next year when the new frequency distribution will be made, in which the long-awaited 800 MHz band will participate, one of those that enters the spectrum that is contemplated for the use of this type of connections. The 800 MHz band at this time is occupied for broadcasting the DTT signal, and due to its characteristics it is the most appropriate so that operators can work on it with a more than acceptable power. At this time, there would be the option of working in the 1,800 MHz band, although in Vodafone's opinion, the investment would not bring into account, given that, on the one hand, it does not have enough power to broadcast "" as it does in the case of the 800 MHz band "", and on the other hand, it would be an expense in infrastructures that in a few months would come to be overshadowed once the band that currently occupies DTT is evicted.
Thus, the British-based operator discarded the idea of launching the deployment of 4G in our country this year, transferring responsibility for the adoption of these services to the regulators. In theory, it would be in 2014 when the strategy for the use of high-speed LTE networks could begin to be raised, although this is subject to the decision of the Government, which already declared at the time the intention to advance the distribution process, the which was scheduled, in principle, for 2015.
However, since the action of the 1.8 GHz band is available in our country, we should not rule out the possibility that this year there are clients who may know the service 4G. In this case, it would be the Yoigo operator that would carry out the overtaking, since it is the one that works on that frequency, which is currently used for GSM 2G traffic. Nevertheless, this possibility still conjugating in the conditional, because as said Eduardo Taulet, CEO of the company, it was not until the doors of the next summerwhen the operator would express its strategy in this regard. In any case, they did not miss the opportunity to plant an ordeal that, if fulfilled, would allow the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3 and other equipment that currently populate the market to launch the fast latest generation connections in our country.
