So Ed Richards is pleased that along with the four existing operators - Vodafone, O2, EE and Three - the winners include a new player, Niche.

BBC: 4G: The results are in

For me that means an overnight trip from Edinburgh to London is going to use up a month of data on the lowest EE tier in three days of work.

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The UK's fourth biggest network - Three - is set to take over part of EE's 4G spectrum, but is not due to do so until September 2013.

BBC: 4G: UK's mobile phone networks in crunch meeting