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2nd Queen’s Speech Echoes Gigabit Broadband and Internet Plans

December 19, 2019, 4:13 am
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The Queen has today, for the second time since October, carried out the annual State Opening of Parliament, which repeated roughly the same list of Government policy plans as her prior visit. Once again this included planned legislation to support the UK roll-out of Gigabit broadband and internet safety related regulation. As usual the speech […]
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50 Rural Monmouthshire Villages Targeted for FTTH Broadband

December 23, 2019, 3:28 am
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Residents in the tiny rural Monmouthshire village of Llanddewi Rhydderch in Wales now have a second 1Gbps capable speed option for broadband in the form of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is intended to complement their existing Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) trial. But another 50 villages could soon join them. The original wireless trial […]
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A Quick Snapshot of EE UK’s Mobile Christmas Internet Traffic

December 31, 2019, 1:37 am
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The CEO of BT’s Consumer divisions (BT, EE and Plusnet), Marc Allera, has posted a limited look at anonymised internet data traffic across EE’s mobile broadband network during Christmas Day and Boxing Day, which mainly focuses upon the key impacts for social media and video streaming usage. The operator notes a reduction in social use, […]
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O2 Extends Live 5G Mobile Network Coverage to 20 UK Cities

January 1, 2020, 1:52 am
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Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) ended 2019 last night by announcing that they had switched-on their ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband network in a further 13 cities across the United Kingdom, which meant they finished the year with a total of 20 as planned. But coverage in the new cities remains focused upon the busiest […]
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Ofcom UK Propose Predictable Annual Work Plan for 2020-21

January 7, 2020, 3:02 am
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Just like clockwork the UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed a new annual work plan for the next year. The generalised summary covers everything from improving fairness for consumers (e.g. end-of-contract notifications), internet regulation and boosting the roll-out of faster broadband ISP and mobile services etc. Overall the plan itself doesn’t contain […]
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Electrosensitivity UK Ad Banned for Claiming 5G is Dangerous

January 8, 2020, 2:30 am
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a “misleading” advert by campaign group Electrosensitivity-UK after it wrongfully claimed that the roll-out of ultrafast 5G mobile networks could result in a range of health effects, such as “reduced male fertility, depression, disturbed sleep and headaches, as well as cancer.” The advert itself took the form of […]
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Magdalene to Help EE and Three UK Deliver New Mobile Sites

January 8, 2020, 4:01 pm
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Infrastructure firm Magdalene (part of M Group Services) has signed a new 5 year deal to help develop and upgrade 4G / 5G mobile sites (e.g. Masts) for Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), which is the Joint Venture between Three UK and EE (BT) that is responsible for the management and deployment of their shared […]
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SHOCK – Councils Find UK Mobile Coverage Estimates Unreliable

January 10, 2020, 5:23 am
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The Local Government Association, which represents hundreds of councils across England and Wales, has finally figured out what almost everybody else has known for years, that those mobile network coverage (3G, 4G, 5G etc.) checkers – usually run by operators – are not a particularly reliable gauge of signal quality. According to the LGA, some […]
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Vodafone Extend Ultrafast 5G to Six More UK Cities and Towns

January 13, 2020, 12:35 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that their new ultrafast 5G data (mobile broadband) network has now gone live in busy areas around the cities of Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds, as well as the towns of Cheadle, Rochdale and Stockport around Greater Manchester. There’s also an update on 5G roaming and MORAN technology. In terms […]
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Farmers Survey Highlights Poor UK Rural Mobile and Broadband

January 13, 2020, 6:53 am
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Once again the National Farmers Union has published the results from its annual online and telephone based survey of several hundred members, which found that just 17% of farmers had access to “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) speeds (up from 16% last year and 4% in 2015) and 15% have no indoor mobile signal at all. Admittedly […]
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O2 UK Follows Vodafone into Testing an OpenRAN Network

January 16, 2020, 2:31 am
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Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica UK) has today announced its own plans for an Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN), which works to standardise the design and functionality of mobile network (3G, 4G or 5G) hardware and software (i.e. making network deployments more cost effective). Vodafone also plans O-RAN trials (here) in rural areas. At present if […]
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Sky Mobile UK Add Ultrafast 5G Plans At No Extra Cost for VIPs

January 16, 2020, 3:44 am
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Sky (Sky Broadband) has, after a short delay, finally made ultrafast 5G technology available on their Sky Mobile plans at no extra cost (with VIP), which as part of their existing Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement is based off the new network being deployed by O2 (Telefonica UK) in the 3.4GHz band. At present […]
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BT Defends Cost Proposals for Sharing Rural UK Mobile Sites

January 17, 2020, 11:32 pm
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Last year’s £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) agreement between BT (EE), Vodafone, Three UK and O2, which will see the operators working together in order to extend geographic 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025, was just the start of what could be a tricky period of implementation. Catering for […]
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Broadband Requirements for Xbox’s New Console Streaming

January 20, 2020, 1:09 am
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Microsoft has just made their new Xbox Console Streaming feature more widely available, which means that anyone with an Xbox account (and on the Xbox Insider program) in the UK can now try their new remote play video gaming service (streamed from your console to a remote device). But you’ll need a reasonable broadband ISP […]
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ICS Wants Full Fibre Broadband for All of Scotland by 2027 UPDATE

January 20, 2020, 2:20 am
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The new Infrastructure Commission for Scotland (ICS) has this morning published a blueprint for their proposed 30-year infrastructure strategy, which among other things calls on the Scottish Government (SG) to ensure the delivery of a “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover all of the country 2027. At present around 94.5% of Scotland can […]
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Huawei You GO! UK Green Lights Firm for non-Core Telecoms Kit

January 28, 2020, 4:25 am
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After a protracted period of uncertainty the UK Government has today confirmed that kit from Chinese technology giant Huawei and other “high risk vendors” will be banned from the “sensitive” core of future UK 5G and “gigabit-capable” fixed broadband ISP networks, although non-core 5G kit (antennas, street cabinets etc.) will be exempt. The decision appears […]
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ASA Ban Vodafone UK Ads for Misleading Unlimited Data Claims

February 4, 2020, 11:22 pm
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Complaints made by Virgin Media and Three UK have today resulted in the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning several adverts for Vodafone’s new “unlimited data” mobile plans, which primarily occurred because of a failure to clearly express the related mobile broadband speed restrictions (especially on 5G). Vodafone UK first launched the new unlimited data plans […]
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Fight Over Costs Threatens Shared UK Rural Mobile Network

February 5, 2020, 1:25 am
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The £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) agreement between BT (EE), Vodafone, Three UK and O2, which aims to extend geographic 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025, could be in doubt after some of the participants expressed concern over high costs. A key meeting is due to discuss the issue […]
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Vodafone UK Totals 687000 Fixed Broadband ISP Customers

February 5, 2020, 4:42 am
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Mobile giant and UK ISP Vodafone has published their latest quarterly results to the end of December 2019 (financial Q3 19/20), which saw them add +20,000 fixed broadband customers to total 687,000 (down from +61k added in the previous quarter) and mobile customers jumped to total 18,056,000 (up by +250k) Otherwise the main developments for […]
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Infrastructure Commission Slams Naff Mobile on UK Railways

February 6, 2020, 2:59 am
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The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has today warned in a new report that “inadequate” mobile (4G, 5G etc.) connectivity continues to be a big problem on the UK’s railways, which they blame on the government being “slow” to fix related gaps in connectivity due to a lack of leadership. Back in December 2017 the Government […]
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