Ofcom have released the names of the seven companies that will be bidding for the 4G spectrum in the UK, the companies are Three, O2, Vodafone, EE, HKT, MLL, and BT. Bidding will take place in the new year with services expected to start in the spring.
Apple Announces Black Friday Sale
Apple have announced they plan to have a 'Black Friday' sale on 23 November.
This one day only sale has been quite a famous event for many retailers in the USA for some years but has yet to really gain momentum in the UK with only a handful of retailers offering the one day event - mainly Amazon and Apple.
There is no indication yet as to which products will be available in the sale and what discounts will be offered but it'll more than likely be around 10-15%.
The sale is available both online and in-store.
4G Launches in the UK (finally)
Everything Everywhere (EE), the company that owns Orange and T-Mobile have today launched the UK's first 4G mobile service.
A selection of 11 cities: Cardiff, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow and Southampton with more cities coming online before Christmas.
The company's mobile tariffs start at £36/month on a 24 month contract, for this you get 500MB of data (which isn't much). For data hungry users there's a 8GB tariff which will set you back £56/month. All of their plans come with unlimited texts and calls which is pretty much standard across all networks now.
Unfortunately the UK's going to have to wait until probably mid-2013 before any other networks launch 4G. Lets hope 5G comes a bit sooner.
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4G comes to the UK
Everything Everywhere, the company behind Orange and T-Mobile have announced that their 4G will finally be made available by Christmas across a number of cities in the UK with the rest of the country coming after.