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:00:16. > :00:26.Now on BBC Nw on BBC N time for Click.
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:00:38. > :00:43.Faster, faster. It is the stuff of Tepco dreams,
:00:43. > :00:47.but now it is becoming a reality. This week Click looks at the next
:00:47. > :00:54.generation of mobile networks, promising faster data and more
:00:54. > :01:00.orbit where everyone. Also, a 50-year-old synthesiser
:01:00. > :01:05.like when you have ever seen or heard before. -- lichen on it you
:01:05. > :01:12.have ever seen. And, spreading the word about you
:01:12. > :01:22.and your great stuff. We will help boost your likeability factor.
:01:22. > :01:26.Welcome to Click. One technology that will definitely be improving
:01:26. > :01:29.in 2012 is an ute network. Just as we upgrade our mobile phones every
:01:29. > :01:35.so often, so do the operators occasionally upgrade their service
:01:35. > :01:40.to us, and for many countries that next big step is about to happen.
:01:40. > :01:44.Forget 3G. 4G is so fast that it could make your mobile phone
:01:44. > :01:54.quicker then your home PC, while also reaching parts that other
:01:54. > :02:00.
:02:01. > :02:05.networks have left behind. The rugged countryside of Cornwall,
:02:05. > :02:11.in the far south-west of England. Like many other remote parts of the
:02:11. > :02:14.UK, it suffers from patchy 3G coverage. More than 2 million
:02:14. > :02:24.people get to be hooked up to a home broadband include those just
:02:24. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:27.outside the nearest town here. For Tamasin Battell and her four-month
:02:27. > :02:32.old baby, it means they have effectively been cut off from the
:02:32. > :02:36.digital revolution. Since the digital TV switch-over last year,
:02:36. > :02:41.they do not even have any TV to watch. On a good day her Blackberry
:02:41. > :02:46.will make calls and get e-mails, but that is about it. Do you want
:02:46. > :02:52.to have a look at your grandson? But this new dongle is changing all
:02:52. > :03:00.that. Shall I bring him closer? I think he has a bit more hair now.
:03:00. > :03:04.He has more than me, anyway. She is one of 180 local people testing out
:03:04. > :03:10.the next generation of wireless telecoms. While the rest of the UK
:03:10. > :03:17.is still on 3G, Tamasin Battell is using 4G. 4th generation mobile
:03:17. > :03:22.comms that promise data speeds many times faster than standard 3G.
:03:22. > :03:27.is a joy, to be able to speak to people, and obviously because James
:03:27. > :03:31.is changing so much, to be able to keep in touch and have pictures as
:03:31. > :03:35.well as sound, all going on at the same time, it is fantastic. It is
:03:35. > :03:41.something we have not really enjoyed before. So this trial is a
:03:41. > :03:45.godsend. Because their house has thick walls, hanging this new piece
:03:45. > :03:55.of kit in the window gives a better signal. So it is also easy to
:03:55. > :03:55.
:03:55. > :04:01.stream TV or music videos. Several technologies we have looked at the
:04:01. > :04:05.Forum Click, including WiMAX, have been called 4G. But around the
:04:05. > :04:11.world, most testing is now being done using this system. It does not
:04:11. > :04:16.have a snappy name. It is called Long Term Evolution, or LTE. And it
:04:16. > :04:21.is the one being favoured by mobile operators. And this is the new
:04:21. > :04:24.infrastructure making it possible. This 4G mast is one of two, and
:04:25. > :04:30.between them they are covering 25 square kilometres, having a range
:04:30. > :04:34.of between 12 and up to 20 kilometres when it goes commercial.
:04:34. > :04:41.They are delivering speeds of somewhere between 5 and 6 megabits
:04:41. > :04:51.per second. That average speed makes this why this service as fast
:04:51. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :04:57.as the average wired broadband speed in Britain. -- twice as fast.
:04:57. > :04:59.But shouldn't the major telecoms providers be laying the stuff? Is
:04:59. > :05:04.4G going to short-change these rural areas from getting a more
:05:04. > :05:09.reliable and possibly faster hard wired connection? There is a limit
:05:09. > :05:18.to how far the economics of fast broadband over fibre will go. It
:05:18. > :05:26.may be more economic court to deliver the broadband experience
:05:26. > :05:31.through other technologies in the future. Together, BT Worldwide and
:05:31. > :05:34.Everything Everywhere have shown that LTE can be an effective
:05:34. > :05:43.substitute for broadband. But the technology is capable of delivering
:05:43. > :05:47.something extra. Raw speed. This is a similar LTE trial in London by 02.
:05:47. > :05:53.It is using more base stations, working at a higher frequency. It
:05:53. > :05:56.is 4G in top gear. Here, downloading a 60-minute TV show
:05:56. > :06:02.takes just one minute. That is ten times faster than typical home
:06:02. > :06:06.broadband speeds. While our current smartphones might make us wait 80
:06:06. > :06:10.minutes. But these are trial speeds, and need to be taken with a pinch
:06:10. > :06:17.of salt. The actual speed that the consumer gets depends on a number
:06:17. > :06:20.of factors, factors, ude how many people are using the cell at the
:06:21. > :06:25.same time, whether the person at his mobile or stationary, or
:06:26. > :06:31.whether the person is indoors or outdoors, whether the person is
:06:31. > :06:37.near the mast or closer to the edge of the cell, and even on weather
:06:37. > :06:41.conditions. And the forecast in the UK is a long-term one. An auction
:06:42. > :06:47.for the spectrum needed to run for cheap services is due in the autumn,
:06:47. > :06:57.but we Brits will not pull out into the fast lane until next year. As
:06:57. > :06:58.
:06:58. > :07:01.most places around the world of late the introduction of 4G, I
:07:01. > :07:06.decided to see what it has done for the country that has had it longer
:07:06. > :07:10.than anyone. Sweden pioneered 4G, turning on the first commercial
:07:10. > :07:15.service two years ago. It offers residents of Stockholm mobile
:07:15. > :07:19.speeds previously unimaginable. So we decided to put this live network
:07:19. > :07:28.to the test, by paying a visit to the headquarters of the operator
:07:28. > :07:35.who started it all. Right, you have the 3G and I have the 4G. Led to a
:07:35. > :07:41.test. 3, 2, 1, go. Their mission is to download a high-definition movie
:07:41. > :07:45.trailer, which the 4G laptop on the right is blazing through. My fairly
:07:45. > :07:49.speedy three megabit connection seems to be taking some time. After
:07:49. > :07:54.23 seconds, Michael's footage is ready to watch, while I still have
:07:55. > :08:04.another nine minutes to go. I later speed test check showed the 4G
:08:04. > :08:08.dongle delivering 83 megabits per second. Not surprising, what the
:08:08. > :08:12.world's forced -- first 4G commercial service must is on next
:08:12. > :08:17.door's roof. But it is easy to see how a fraction of the speed could
:08:17. > :08:20.transform how and what we used mobile data for. And all that data
:08:20. > :08:26.from one of the world's fast as mobile networks comes into this box,
:08:26. > :08:32.and connects up with Sweden's fibre network through one single table.
:08:32. > :08:39.Right here. Pulling this out would ta tale sell-off line, not
:08:39. > :08:43.that many p But -- people here would notice. Just 9,000 Swedes
:08:43. > :08:47.have signed up, 18 knots after watching the service. So what went
:08:47. > :08:50.wrong? Thomas Alderson has followed the market for 15 years. He says
:08:50. > :08:55.the price of 4G was simply too expensive, and that consumers had
:08:55. > :08:59.very little to use the network would. The problem has really been
:08:59. > :09:05.that there is not much hardware out to the market. We are still waiting
:09:05. > :09:10.for the first handsets and the first tablets out on the market.
:09:10. > :09:13.That is what we really must think about when we speak about 3G or 4G.
:09:13. > :09:18.And they'll be the expensive, as they always are when you introduce
:09:18. > :09:22.new technology. In America, where LTE was introduced a year ago,
:09:23. > :09:27.handsets went on sale straight away. That lead to quicker take-up of the
:09:27. > :09:32.service. Now, Samsung is finally introducing the first compatible
:09:32. > :09:38.smartphone aartphone ain Sweden this month. And pricing has come
:09:38. > :09:45.down with the cheapest packages capped at 10 gigabytes of data for
:09:45. > :09:50.$50. More than 30,000 customers have now signed up. Telia has
:09:50. > :09:57.learnt important lessons from being first. We discovered that telling
:09:57. > :10:00.people what to do with it, you can use video or film or conferencing,
:10:00. > :10:04.but also where you can use it and on which local sports you can use
:10:04. > :10:10.it, that is something that is really important for the customer.
:10:10. > :10:18.-- local spots. And perhaps the strangest place is inside this 4G
:10:18. > :10:24.car. This prototype VW connects to the network and then create a wife
:10:24. > :10:34.on- 4G devices to recover. -- while
:10:34. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:39.this hot spot. But this car is not the future. At this than his. --
:10:39. > :10:44.this and then it is. Because it is the fastest moving thing we can
:10:44. > :10:49.ever seen. I am being driven around the headquarters of Ericsson, just
:10:49. > :10:58.outside of Stockholm, for a trial of what is called LTE Advanced. We
:10:58. > :11:02.are editing speeds of up to 1,000 move, Albie it quite slow. This is
:11:02. > :11:06.owned a trial. We will not see it for a couple of years or so. And
:11:06. > :11:10.there are some base stations just near the car. But the area coverage
:11:10. > :11:13.is not great. What they are doing is combining different band withs
:11:13. > :11:21.at different frequencies and putting that together to deliver
:11:21. > :11:29.unbelievable speed. But it is not re
:11:29. > :11:35.4G can reach that has driven demand. The colt wastelands of northern
:11:35. > :11:40.Sweden are inside the Arctic Circle. We are visiting Europe's newest 4G
:11:40. > :11:48.town. And we found the signal here extends well beyond the high street.
:11:48. > :11:51.We wondered, just how far? A ride into the white wilderness would
:11:51. > :12:01.prove a point. Imagine streaming high-definition Moody's out here in
:12:01. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:11.the middle of nowhere. -- movies. Unfortunately, we had to. It seemed
:12:11. > :12:19.that even with 4G, no matter how fast your hot spots get, there will
:12:19. > :12:23.always be some very cold spots in between.
:12:23. > :12:28.Super-fast Dan Simmons, his search of a super-fast 4G connection. So
:12:28. > :12:30.would you be willing to pay a little bit extra seat super charge
:12:30. > :12:40.your mobile broadband connection? Bought the Summerbee, to get your
:12:40. > :12:45.
:12:45. > :12:52.first ever mobile broadband If 2011 was the year that sort out
:12:52. > :12:59.that sales fly high, 2012 could be the year that sees tap let prices
:12:59. > :13:04.nosedived. Sony have slashed $100 off its is Series tablet, RIM has
:13:04. > :13:12.started selling of its PlayBook versions at $300. Last than half of
:13:12. > :13:19.its original $700 price tag. Google has taken another bite out of IBM's
:13:19. > :13:24.patents pot. It will serve as ammunition for the patent war
:13:24. > :13:29.between Apple, Google and Samsung. One could end up in Google+. The
:13:29. > :13:38.idea involves analysing the words that involve -- come up frequently
:13:38. > :13:42.in your web search. 2012 could be a lucrative year for bug busting
:13:42. > :13:50.hackers, Mozilla, Google and Facebook shell out rewards for
:13:50. > :13:57.finding problems in their software. Researchers are now being offered a
:13:57. > :14:03.customise Visa debit card. Facebook loads the card with $500 for every
:14:03. > :14:10.buggie fine. Facebook is looking to boost its good-guy street
:14:10. > :14:17.credentials. Finally, Instagram has become the latest technology to
:14:17. > :14:22.seduce Barack Obama. President Obama has posted two pictures on
:14:22. > :14:29.the popular smart phone app. Another diversion to Twitter,
:14:29. > :14:35.YouTube and Flickr activity. Imagine unnerving a piece of
:14:35. > :14:41.technology history that you thought had been lost forever. 50 years
:14:41. > :14:44.after it was invented, the Oramics machine is once again centre-stage
:14:44. > :14:50.because of the London Science Museum. For those who do not know
:14:50. > :14:56.what the Oramics machine is, here is LJ Rich. Over the past decade
:14:56. > :15:02.music production has changed beyond recognition. Forget high end
:15:02. > :15:07.hardware in a dedicated studio, or musicians can now composed
:15:07. > :15:15.masterpieces on a home computer. If I want the orchestra's string
:15:15. > :15:19.section, I consulted. These are virtual instruments of substance.
:15:19. > :15:26.This is a sampler, before Playback Cordier snapshots of real
:15:26. > :15:32.instruments when you play a note. This is a tone generator, it makes
:15:32. > :15:40.sound inside your computer. The second one is closely related to
:15:40. > :15:43.the Oramics machine. This machine is the externally instrument in
:15:43. > :15:49.question. Rehabilitated as part of a year-long exhibition about the
:15:49. > :15:56.history of electronic music. Yet now stands as a musical relic, too
:15:56. > :16:00.delicate to play any longer. In the early 60s, this elementary
:16:01. > :16:07.synthesiser spearheaded a new chapter in is a devout man. As its
:16:07. > :16:13.name suggests, the Oramics machine takes in the spirit of Daphne Oram,
:16:13. > :16:20.who took her inspiration from European contemporaries. With
:16:20. > :16:26.engineers they assembled a one of masterpiece of musical Engineering.
:16:26. > :16:30.Daphne Oram was an extraordinary person with an amazing mind. She
:16:30. > :16:38.was able to imagine a electronic sounds that she could not actually
:16:38. > :16:43.make. Having set up the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958, she
:16:43. > :16:48.left to pursue her own ideas about how to make electronic music. In
:16:48. > :16:58.her mind it was about how you could change drawing us into sound. That
:16:58. > :17:06.
:17:06. > :17:16.was her experimental programme. -- drawings. The sound generator would
:17:16. > :17:16.
:17:16. > :17:25.provide a chain based on the shape the dot followed. You could change
:17:25. > :17:35.the pitch or echo of a note. had to put it into separate
:17:35. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:48.Parramatta Eels. -- Parameters. This could make it much quicker...
:17:48. > :17:58.It is thought the machine was monophonic. That is, it could only
:17:58. > :18:02.play OneNote at once. It could lay four notes together. The reason it
:18:02. > :18:06.is so difficult to tell is that the machine was always being tweaked
:18:06. > :18:11.and modified throughout its life. As the Oramics machine was too
:18:11. > :18:20.fragile to restore to playable order, there is an interactive
:18:20. > :18:27.display that lets visitors play with a virtual machine. There is an
:18:27. > :18:32.app for those who want to take matters into their own hand. There
:18:32. > :18:35.is a competition for those who want to submit their aim submissions.
:18:35. > :18:42.has got cheaper and cheaper and easier and easier to do. It has
:18:42. > :18:48.become too easy to make electronic music. Some of the most interesting
:18:48. > :18:55.areas are where people are trying to introduce some constraint, some
:18:55. > :19:00.difficulty with sampling sounds and changing the sounds. Daphne Oram
:19:00. > :19:05.died in 2003, an unsung hero of the start even if her machine is no
:19:05. > :19:12.longer playable, her ideas have left an indelible mark on
:19:12. > :19:19.electronic music of today. There is a ton of free stuff available
:19:19. > :19:23.online. Ebooks, music, fond designs, wallpaper, instead of asking for
:19:23. > :19:29.money, traitors will often asked you to spread the word about their
:19:29. > :19:34.masterpieces. -- creators. We have come across a website that makes it
:19:35. > :19:40.easy for people to pay you with publicity. If you want a guaranteed
:19:40. > :19:44.bit of publicity for your free Giveaway, Transactsocially.com is
:19:44. > :19:48.an intriguing new services that lets you use a button offering
:19:48. > :19:56.whatever it is you are prepared to give away in exchange for a
:19:56. > :20:01.Facebook comment or Twitter comment. I see this being a great late for
:20:01. > :20:09.up and coming musicians to spread the word. You could drive traffic
:20:09. > :20:12.Teale website with a free download or coupon. Setting it up his super
:20:12. > :20:22.easy. In bed it on the website where you advertise and watch the
:20:22. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:32.crowds spring into action. -- imbed. I have shown you a lot of ways to
:20:32. > :20:37.get your voice heard on the internet, if they all seem a little
:20:37. > :20:43.bit complicated, Pen.io is the tonic you have been waiting for. It
:20:43. > :20:49.wins hands down in terms of ease of use. There is no sign up. You can
:20:49. > :20:54.drag and drop things to appear on it. Part of the appeal of Pen.io
:20:54. > :21:02.has to be that you can use it completely anonymously, making it
:21:02. > :21:08.quite an important tool for people we have to watch what you say
:21:08. > :21:14.online. 40% of the visitors come from China. You cannot do a lot
:21:14. > :21:24.with your page, just text, images, video and a few simple formatting
:21:24. > :21:28.
:21:28. > :21:34.commands. There will be adding more simple features as they go along. -
:21:34. > :21:40.- they will. Remember Worms? That combat game that had everyone
:21:40. > :21:47.shouting, leave me alone! Worms Golf HG is a modern re-enactment
:21:47. > :21:57.that takes the form of a mini golf tournament. They explode in various
:21:57. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:03.ways. I might be showing my age, but I remember when the original
:22:03. > :22:09.Worms came into the offices of one of the first games magazines I
:22:09. > :22:14.worked on in 1995. This franchise has a special place in my heart. I
:22:14. > :22:19.am happy to say that the mini golf game is a playful rendition of the
:22:19. > :22:27.brand. For the full retro experience, there at 2010 up days
:22:27. > :22:37.of the original game available on Android, iPhone and iPad. Leave me
:22:37. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :22:58.alone! Victory. 7digital's app proved popular on and Trade and I -
:22:58. > :23:02.- and Trade and iPod last year. It is a viable alternative to iTunes.
:23:02. > :23:12.If you have not made a new year's resolution yet, how about learning
:23:12. > :23:12.
:23:13. > :23:21.to cope? 2012 will be the year of the coda. Sign up at Moshe Katsav -
:23:21. > :23:28.- Kodia.com. Kate Russell. All of her lines are available at our
:23:28. > :23:32.website. You can see all of the reports in video and text and flick
:23:32. > :23:37.through to Click on the radio the start this week we look at the
:23:37. > :23:44.latest attempts to bring mobile and broadband access to Africa the