UK gets fastest-ever wireless broadband

Libera announced on Tuesday that it is building a new and independent wireless broadband network, using the 28GHz band of the radio spectrum. The first base station, located in Docklands, will go live in July this year and the rest of the Greater London network should be operational by early summer 2005. The company is also planning a national rollout that will eventually be able to reach about 75 percent of UK businesses. Libera will offer business customers broadband capacity of between 1Mbps and 36Mbps. Customers will be able to choose the level of broadband capacity which they want.

"If they need more bandwidth we can turn it up, if they need less we can turn it down," said Paul Momtahan, marketing director at Libera.

Momtahan did not want to state the exact cost of this service due to complex pricing plans, but said that it would be "priced similar to business class SDSL but with better bandwidth, flexibility and reliability".

"Ofcom is very positive about what we're doing - making use of wireless broadband," said Momtahan.