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Vodafone UK Top 606000 Fixed Broadband Users as 5G Roaming Live

July 26, 2019, 12:53 am
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Mobile giant and UK ISP Vodafone has published their latest quarterly results to the end of June (Q1 FY20) and launched 5G roaming in 55 towns and cities across four countries (Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK). On top of that they added +31K fixed broadband customers to total 606,000 (down from +50K added in […]
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Sky Mobile UK Preparing to Launch 5G Plans in November 2019

July 26, 2019, 1:08 am
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Sky (Sky Broadband) has this morning announced that they will launch their own 5G based Sky Mobile plans during November 2019, which as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partner of O2 will of course be directly linked to their UK rollout plan (here) for the new ultrafast mobile network. Sky Mobile says the new […]
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Three UK Reveal 5G Mobile Prices – Unrestricted and At No Extra Cost

July 26, 2019, 1:30 am
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Mobile operator Three UK has today confirmed that all new and existing customers will have access to 5G, when it launches in August 2019 (details), with no mobile broadband speed caps and at no extra cost on all contract, SIM only and PAYG mobile plans. A big offer given their tendency toward “unlimited” data plans. […]
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BT Sees its UK Broadband ISP Traffic Peak at 13 Terabits in March 2019

July 31, 2019, 12:25 am
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Customers of BT’s (EE) retail fixed line broadband ISP business (around 9.4 million of them) hit a new record level of internet data traffic after the network peaked at around 13Tbps (Terabits per second) in March, which is up from 10.4Tbps at roughly the same time last year. By comparison their mobile broadband network hit […]
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Satisfaction with Home WiFi Reliability and Mobile Signal by UK Region

July 31, 2019, 3:19 am
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Nominet has published the results of new poll, which queried 2,080 UK adults about their home internet connectivity (i.e. attitudes to broadband ISP, WiFi and mobile reliability). Overall 60% of respondents would opt for reliability over speed and 79% said they had experienced broadband reliability problems in the last year. Meanwhile 66% felt that consistent […]
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Three UK in L-Band Rollout as Mobile Data Usage Per User Hits 9.1GB

August 1, 2019, 2:32 am
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Mobile operator Three UK has today released their latest results to the end of June 2019 (H1 19 financial), which amongst other things revealed that monthly Mobile Broadband (3G / 4G) data usage per customer grew from 8.3GB (GigaBytes) last quarter to 9.1GB now. Plus they plan a rollout of L-Band technology to boost 4G. […]
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Samsung Users Experience Faster 4G Speeds than Apple or Huawei

August 5, 2019, 11:00 pm
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Crowd-sourced analyst firm Opensignal has tested the Mobile Broadband speeds experienced by the three largest Smartphone makers (by shipment volume) across 73 countries – Apple, Huawei and Samsung – and concluded that Samsung users experienced faster download speeds. But the wider picture is more complicated. Opensignal took a total of 117,846,554,241 measurements across 23.3 million […]
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Gigabit Wireless Broadband Trial in Rural Wales Morphs into FTTP

August 6, 2019, 1:01 am
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Homes in the rural Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llanddewi Rhydderch may soon be connected to a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband ISP network from Broadway Partners, which initially promised to deploy a “Gigabit” speed wireless network but ended up connecting locals at 30Mbps. The original trial (here) – supported by Broadway Partners (UK ISP […]
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EE UK Add Amazon Prime Video and Gamer’s Data Pass to Smart Plans

August 7, 2019, 8:52 am
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Mobile network operator EE UK (BT) has today added the option of two new “Swappable Benefits” – Amazon Prime Video (£5.99 per month) and Gamer’s Data Pass (£7.99 per month) – to their 4G and 5G based Pay Month Smart Plans. Such plans usually give you a choice of several included benefits, but you can […]
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Fidelity to Rollout First UK 5G Fixed Wireless Broadband in West Sussex

August 7, 2019, 4:01 pm
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A new wireless ISP called Fidelity Broadband is planning to build and operate the United Kingdom’s first 1Gbps capable 5G based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service, which will harness transmitters in existing street lighting in order to potentially connect over 1 million premises “on-demand“. At present EE and Vodafone have already launched ultrafast 5G services, […]
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New Study Slams Lack of 100% UK Geographic 4G Mobile Coverage

August 9, 2019, 12:36 am
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A new Which? study has found that in 524 out of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies 4G mobile coverage is not available via all four operators to the whole constituency. The most poorly-served city-based constituencies (all under 80% coverage) were Rochford, Southend, South West Devon, Romsey and Southampton North. The results appear to be based on […]
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O2 and Three UK Clash Over Ofcom 5G Spectrum Defragmentation Plan

August 12, 2019, 12:25 am
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Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has criticised Ofcom’s recent proposal to defragment the 5G ultrafast mobile broadband friendly 3.4-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands after next year’s auction, which they complain favours Three UK (H3G) by allowing them to establish a “kingmaker” position from where they can obstruct rivals. Previously Three UK was at somewhat of a disadvantage […]
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Quickline Get £12m to Rollout 100Mbps Wireless Across North of UK

August 12, 2019, 8:55 am
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Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Quickline, which is part of Bigblu, has today announced that they’ve secured an investment of £12 million to help rollout a new unlimited “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) capable network to 30,000 premises across the north of the United Kingdom (or at least part of it). At present Quickline’s network already serves […]
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ISP Vodafone UK Launch Unlimited 5G and Fixed Broadband Bundle

August 14, 2019, 5:15 am
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Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today launched their new triple-play “Together” bundle, which combines a fixed line phone service with unlimited home broadband (FTTC / VDSL2) and 5G based mobile broadband data into a single package from £31 per month. You also get the same router as their FTTH packages. At present both […]
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Study Claims UK Restaurants “Ruined” by Poor Mobile Connectivity

August 15, 2019, 5:31 am
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A new survey of 2,000 mobile phone using UK adults, which was conducted by Global Wireless Solutions and OnePoll, has claimed that 11% of respondents felt their experience in a restaurant had “been ruined due to poor mobile connectivity.” Meanwhile EE and O2 offered the most reliable service while inside such eateries. Generally it’s considered […]
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Three UK Goes LIVE with 5G and £35 Unlimited Home Broadband Plan

August 18, 2019, 4:01 pm
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Three UK (Hutchison 3G UK) will today join EE and Vodafone by confirming that their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network has finally gone live, starting in busy parts of London with a £35 home broadband ISP alternative. The initial plan is to cover 25 towns and cities by the end of 2019 and deliver […]
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EE Get the Hump Over Three UK’s “Real 5G” Mobile Advert Claim

August 19, 2019, 6:57 am
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“If it’s not Three, it’s not real 5G” said Three UK this morning (here) when promoting the launch of their new 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband network. In response rival operator EE (BT) is reported to have lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over the slogan, which they say is “misleading“. At […]
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Orkney 5G Trial Tests Li-Fi Wireless Broadband via Solar Panels

August 22, 2019, 4:01 pm
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Now this really is unique. One of the Government funded 5G RuralFirst testbeds on Orkney (Scotland) appears to be delivering “high-speed” wireless broadband to a number of remote rural properties by using solar panels as receivers for a new Light Fidelity (LiFi) network (i.e. Li-Fi solar backhaul). LiFi is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) based […]
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The Project Using Twitter to Map UK 4G, 5G Mobile Notspots

August 25, 2019, 4:01 pm
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A new UK Government funded project called NoServiceHere is hoping, among other things, to harness the power of the Twitter community in order to help identify areas (rural and urban) of poor mobile signal by curating geospatial data, which can then be used to help focus the rollout of 3G, 4G and future 5G networks. […]
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Improved Mobile Planning Rules and £30m for UK Rural 5G Trials

August 26, 2019, 4:01 pm
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The UK Government has commitment another £30m to help up to 10 rural locations conduct “innovative trials” of 5G mobile / mobile broadband applications as part of a new Rural Connected Communities (RCC) project, which could stimulate commercial investment. On top of that they aim to ease mobile planning rules. The new investment is intended […]
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