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