Yes, quite a lot actually!I have found that the idea of a faster and more stable cellular service in all major cities is wonderful. There can be no downside to that, except possibly the cost to customers and businesses to have 4G. In the age of "everything quickly" we demand a lot from our cellular service providers and we are genuinely unwilling to put up with delays. So when I hear that my network (o2) is to be one of the first to offer 4G in the UK, thats is genuinely exciting.

What should we know?Well I think to start off with I will point you all to handy little piece by James Rogerson of TechRadar on the crucial points of 4G & LTE, this article was written on August 29th 2013. His piece was a great rundown of the current providers positions on 4G in the UK. For a more widespread point of view 4G, its history and current deployment I would check out this article from Wikipedia. Bare in mind this article contains a lot of technical data and tables of comparisons for the differing types of data connections available today and in the past. However still a worthwhile read for a curious technologist.

So where do we go from here?Well not very far for the moment, as the 4G standard is still only thinly spread over the globe and the number of devices that utilise it is not very vast either. So the initial uptake cannot be very large until these issues are addressed. I hope that consumer demand will make the right businesses get behind this technology and move it forward in partnership with telecommunication firms all over the world. But one thing is certain the customers need, both consumer and business is growing and I can guarantee that we will soon be knocking up against the limit of 3G's ability to satisfy us. Once that happens the right infrastructure to take us forward really should be in place.