The launch of the next generation of mobile Internet has been delayed due to infighting - that government can solve the

The haggling has intensified and the insults began. In an impressive calving this weekend, Vodafone UK's chief charged with three competing network - the smallest of the participants and more recently in the market, "dressed in shorts, as they run around the park complain that are bullied by older boys. "

Laurence Guy is concerned about the upcoming major sale of British airspace. He thinks that the regulator, Ofcom, is to give too much protection to three and the largest network in the UK, everything, everywhere.

on Friday proposed rules were broken and the date of the auction was postponed for a period of six months in late 2012, although not written in stone.

as networks vie for advantage, tying knots Ofcom is trying to find a solution that will not lead to legal action by one or other of the participants.

The government has had to intervene. The network operations have been summoned to the principal's office. The secretary of culture, Jeremy Hunt, will come to the meeting of November 21 and hopes to thrash consensus.

Shamefully, the UK will be the last major European economies to sell 4G spectrum. United States, the three major networks have already launched the next generation of mobile Internet.

Ofcom said the delays did not matter too much. There are two types of spectrum were sold, but the most interesting room is now used to transmit analog television signals and will not be free until the switchover is completed in late 2012.

TV spectrum is important for several reasons. A frequency of 800Mhz, which travels farther, which means fewer antennas are needed and what the network is cheaper to build. More importantly, it travels through the walls. Like all residents of the apartment basement is known, the signal below the street level or even in many buildings are poor, particularly the Internet, but mostly for voice calls as well.

Finally, a new spectrum will trigger a series of investments in Internet services faster. The operators plan to install technology Long Term Evolution, which is compatible with 2G and 3G networks currently in use, and must therefore its own separate portion of the airwaves.

LTE to deliver mobile Internet at the average home broadband connection decent. United States, where the LTE is already in use, connection speeds are an average of 7 Mbps technology has been overstated - Do not expect a speed of 100 Mbps laboratory tests have produced

Others say that the shortage of capacity will come forward during the Olympics, where 1 million extra visitors coming to London.

Laurence of Vodafone has a point. Three is not a helpless child. It is owned by Hutchison in Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing conglomerate Whampoa, which has the property, ports and retail interests, and control of wireless networks in 10 countries, including Australia, Denmark and the Italy.

and constitutes a threat to other operators, but not just because their parent company has a market capitalization of 22 billion pounds. Three is to disrupt the market. Their number is an alarming indicator of the pent-up demand for mobile Internet.