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BBC iPlayer and YouTube Added to EE’s 4G and 5G Video Data Pass

June 18, 2019, 5:10 am
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Mobile operator EE has announced that their Video Data Pass add-on, which allows UK customers of their 4G and 5G based mobile broadband network to stream online video without it reducing their monthly data allowance, has now added support for both the BBC’s iPlayer service and YouTube. The Video Data Pass, which only launched a […]
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Vodafone UK Confirms Isles of Scilly to Get 5G Mobile in July

June 27, 2019, 1:12 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that the Isles of Scilly, which sits 45km off the south coast of Cornwall, will join Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and London as being one of the first UK places to benefit from their commercial rollout of 5G mobile broadband technology on 3rd July 2019. The operator already […]
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EE UK Details New HTC 5G Hub Mobile Broadband WiFi Router

June 28, 2019, 4:30 am
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Mobile operator EE (BT) has today revealed further details about their new 5GEE WiFi plans and advanced HTC 5G Hub (Mobile Smart Hub) wireless router, which will deliver ultrafast mobile broadband speeds to consumers across parts of the United Kingdom. But it’s a bit pricey for what you get. The operator’s new 5G network has […]
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Rural Gigabit Wireless Broadband Trial in Wales Delivers Just 30Mbps+

July 1, 2019, 1:50 am
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Homes connecting to a supposedly 1Gbps wireless broadband trial in the tiny rural Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llanddewi Rhydderch, which is supported by the UK Government, have yet to experience “anything near” to those speeds. A recent council meeting also suggests that the service becomes “patchy when the weather is poor.” The trial (original story) […]
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ISP BT to Follow EE and Launch Ultrafast 5G Mobile this Autumn

July 2, 2019, 4:21 am
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In an unsurprising development BT has announced that they will launch their own 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband service this autumn, which will initially be made available to subscribers of their premium “Plus” packages. As you’d expect this is due to be based off EE’s national UK network. Mobile operator EE began a limited commercial […]
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Loon’s 4G Broadband by Balloon Project Moves to Commercial Trial

July 3, 2019, 2:15 am
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Google (Alphabet) has announced that Loon, which is a long-running project that aims to distribute mobile broadband (4G / 5G) connectivity from High Altitude Platforms (stratospheric balloons), will in a few weeks time see its first commercial trial take place in Kenya (Africa). The super-pressure, helium-filled and solar powered balloons are designed to drift (controlled) […]
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Vodafone UK Give 5G Launch a Boost by Adding Unlimited Data

July 3, 2019, 4:57 am
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ISP Vodafone has today gone live in 7 UK cities with their new 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband network. At the same time they’ve moved to challenge Three UK by introducing a new range of SIM-only and handset plans with “unlimited data” (also on 4G services). A new home broadband (FTTC) and mobile bundle is […]
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UK Slowest as OpenSignal Tests Early 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds

July 8, 2019, 4:00 am
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Crowd-sourced analyst firm OpenSignal has today published the first results from their initial real-world benchmarks of 5G based mobile broadband networks across 8 countries (i.e. those that have launched the service). The highest maximum speeds were seen by 5G users in the USA (1815Mbps), while the UK scored the lowest (569Mbps). On the surface this […]
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Quickline’s Trial 5G Wireless Network in Lincolnshire Set to Go Live

July 8, 2019, 7:00 pm
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Wireless UK ISP Quickline has announced that their part of the £2.1m Government funded 5G Rural Integrated Testbed (5GRIT) pilot is due to start testing its new network later this month, which will initially aim to bring superfast broadband to holidaymakers across caravan parks in Ingoldmells (Lincolnshire), including Butlins. The pilot was first announced last […]
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Cross-Party Security Committee to Probe UK 5G Mobile Networks

July 16, 2019, 3:34 am
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The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has launched a new inquiry into UK 5G and fixed broadband telecommunications infrastructure, which in the wake of all the alleged risks from Huawei’s kit will examine the issues of sustaining access to “safe” telecoms technology as a national security issue. The announcement follows a new […]
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Glasgow and London Underground May Trial 5G Infotainment

July 16, 2019, 5:59 am
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A joint £2.4m UK project with South Korea looks set to trial how ultrafast 5G wireless data connections could be used to support “uninterrupted infotainment services” (i.e. travel services, entertainment and advertising) for commuters travelling around the Glasgow Metro, as well as possibly the London Underground. The project – due to run from August 2019 […]
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Three UK Launch Live Fully Integrated Cloud Core Network – 5G Ready

July 16, 2019, 7:01 am
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Mobile operator Three UK has today gone live with their new “world’s first” software-based cloud core network, which sits in a virtual environment and will be used to underpin the launch of their new ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband services next month (as well as existing 4G services). The operator’s new core network – based […]
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Vodafone 5G Now Live in 15 UK Towns and Cities as Roaming Grows

July 17, 2019, 1:47 am
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Vodafone has announced that their new 5G network, which promises average mobile broadband speeds of 150-200Mbps and peaks up to 1Gbps, has now started rolling out into Birkenhead, Bolton, Gatwick, Lancaster, Newbury, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton after initially only going live in a few major cities. The live deployment started earlier this month on 3rd […]
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Fibre ISPs Take Note – UK Consults on New EU Electronic Comms Code

July 19, 2019, 12:31 am
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The Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has begun consulting on its plan to implement the new European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) into UK law, which includes new provisions that are intended to boost the rollout of Gigabit speed “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband and 5G mobile networks. The new EECC, which was […]
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Broadband Segregation Risk as ISPs Shun Slower Speed ADSL Lines

July 19, 2019, 4:01 pm
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A few years ago Sky Broadband became the first ISP to stop accepting orders from UK customers on lines – often rural ones – where speeds were stuck below 2Mbps (here). Sadly more providers appear to have joined this club of shunning those on slower lines, which for some may exasperate the feeling of digital […]
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Government Creates Security Framework for the UK Telecoms Sector

July 23, 2019, 12:14 am
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The Government has concluded its Telecoms Supply Chain Review and plans to establish new Telecoms Security Requirements, which will be underpinned by a legislative framework that hands stronger enforcement powers to Ofcom in order to “protect” UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband and 5G networks from threats. But no decision on Huawei. At the root of […]
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O2 and Vodafone Finalise UK Agreement to Share 5G Active Equipment

July 23, 2019, 11:44 pm
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Mobile operators O2 and Vodafone have today finalised a deal that will extend their existing joint 50:50 network sharing agreement to include 5G mobile active equipment, such as radio antennas, on shared network sites across the UK. But earlier proposals to deliver a “shared, future proof fibre” network have not materialised. At present both operators […]
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BT Makes Progress Building New UK Cloud Core Network

July 24, 2019, 4:59 am
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ISP BT has picked Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu – the latter of which is an open source Linux based Operating System (OS) – as a key component of its next generation 5G Core network. Canonical will provide the open source Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) as part of BT’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) program. The […]
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O2 UK Sets October 2019 Rollout for Ultrafast 5G Mobile Broadband

July 25, 2019, 12:46 am
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Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has today confirmed that their next generation ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) network will join EE, Vodafone and Three UK by beginning its commercial rollout in October 2019. The aim being to go live in 20 towns and cities this year and a total of 50 by Summer 2020. The operator, which […]
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Ofcom Opens UK Radio Spectrum for Smaller Local Wireless Networks

July 25, 2019, 2:50 am
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As expected Ofcom has today unveiled a new new sharing framework that will be applied for four of the United Kingdom’s radio spectrum frequency bands (airwaves), which should make it possible for smaller mobile and fixed wireless broadband ISP networks to be created in order to deliver local coverage or industrial use. Under the plan […]
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