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Trading Standards to Halt Sales of £300 SCAM Anti-5G USB Stick

May 29, 2020, 2:11 am
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The City of London Police (Action Fraud Squad) and UK Trading Standards are to target sales of the bizarre £300 5GBioShield, which was recommended by a member of Glastonbury Town Council’s much criticised 5G Advisory Committee and falsely promised to create a shield against 5G mobile radiation. Except it’s just a USB stick. The situation […]
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EE Switch-on Ultrafast 5G Mobile Network in 9 Extra UK Towns

May 29, 2020, 7:35 am
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Mobile operator EE (BT) has started to extend their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network to cover an additional 9 towns and cities across the United Kingdom, including locations such as Southend-on-Sea, Stirling and Weybridge. The development means that EE’s 5G network is now live across busy parts of 80 UK locations, although it will […]
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Guernsey ISP Sure to Replace 10G with 100G Core Network

June 1, 2020, 8:25 am
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The incumbent broadband ISP and mobile network operator for the English Channel Island of Guernsey, Sure, has today chosen UK technology and network services company telent to help upgrade their existing 10G (10Gbps) network with a 100G Juniper Networks core. The move follows last year’s announcement of a 5-year plan to invest several million pounds […]
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O2 UK to Boost Mobile Cover on London North Eastern Railway

June 4, 2020, 2:05 am
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O2 has signed a new partnership deal with London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which aims to boost 4G and 5G based network coverage along a 45-mile stretch of the East Coast route – between Newcastle in North East England and Edinburgh in Scotland. The upgrade will also improve coverage for communities along the route. As […]
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COVID-19 Saw Big Falls in 4G Mobile Speed and Rise in WiFi Use

June 9, 2020, 1:05 am
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Opensignal, which specialises in crowd-sourced testing of 4G and 5G based mobile networks, has updated their study of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis to show how much of an impact it had on Smartphone users across the UK and the world. Suffice to say that mobile users spent a lot more time on WiFi via home […]
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COVID-19 5G Conspiracy Arsonist Gets 3 Years for Burning Mast

June 9, 2020, 8:33 am
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The Liverpool Crown Court has sentenced Michael Whitty (47) to three years in prison after he set fire to one of Vodafone UK’s 4G masts in Kirkby on 5th April 2020, which caused damage estimated to be worth up to £15,000. Whitty’s action was fuelled by a bonkers conspiracy theory that links the spread of […]
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O2 and Ericsson Deal to Continue 5G Rollout Across the UK

June 10, 2020, 2:17 am
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Mobile operator O2 UK and telecoms technology giant Ericsson have today agreed to expand their existing relationship by deploying the firm’s latest 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) hardware, software and service upgrades across the “West” of the United Kingdom. The work will include upgrades for existing 2G, 3G and 4G sites. O2 officially began their […]
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UK Mobile Firms Remove Data Charges on Sites Supporting Victims of Crime

June 10, 2020, 4:01 pm
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The UK Government has today reached an agreement with Vodafone, Three UK, Tesco Mobile, Virgin Media (Virgin Mobile), O2, EE (BT), Sky Mobile and giffgaff to remove mobile data (mobile broadband) charges for customers who need to access websites that support some of the most vulnerable victims of crime. This is in addition to NHS […]
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O2 Expands 5G Mobile to 60 UK Sites and LTE-M to 10,000 Sites

June 10, 2020, 4:01 pm
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Mobile operator O2 has today announced that their new ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband network is now live across parts of 60 UK towns and cities (up from 20 at the start of 2020), which puts them ahead of their target (50 places by summer). On top of that they’ve extended their roll-out of 4G […]
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O2 UK Extends 4G Mobile to 91,000 Extra Postcodes in 2020

June 28, 2020, 11:31 pm
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Mobile operator O2 has announced that they now have 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in over 18,000 regional UK towns, villages and hamlets (many of them rural), which follows a service upgrade across over 91,000 postcodes since the start of 2020; including almost 400 tourist hotspots “ahead of a record staycation summer.” Some of the many […]
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Vodafone Say 5G to Boost UK Economy by £158bn Over 10 Years

June 29, 2020, 6:05 am
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Vodafone has published a new report from WPI Economics, which perhaps predictably forecasts that the cumulative gains of UK businesses moving from 4G to 5G (mobile broadband) could produce an economic boost of more than £38bn by 2025, plus £120bn between 2025 to 2030 (total productivity-based boost of £158bn). This report outlines examples of where […]
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Vodafone UK Deploys Improved Standalone 5G Mobile Tech

July 3, 2020, 12:26 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone today claims to have become “the first UK operator” to showcase the next evolution of gigabit-capable 5G (mobile broadband) technology – “Standalone 5G” (SA), which includes support for improvements like ultra-low latency, “guaranteed speed performance” and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. At present most of the early commercial 5G based network deployments […]
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KN Circet Acquires ARCC – Expands into UK Wireless Networks

July 8, 2020, 5:27 am
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Telecommunications network services provider KN Circet, which is part of the Circet Group and operates across the UK and Ireland (clients include Openreach, Vodafone, Virgin Media, BT, Zayo and many others), has acquired ARCC Communications as part of its strategy to expand into UK wireless activities and infrastructure. Birmingham-based ARCC, which is home to 100 […]
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BT and Vodafone Seek 5-7 Years to Pull Huawei or Risk Blackouts

July 9, 2020, 6:55 am
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Senior broadband and mobile figures from UK telecoms giants BT and Vodafone have today warned cross-party MPs on the Science and Technology Committee that they’d need at least 5-7 years to fully remove Huawei’s kit from their networks, or “blackouts” could be a risk. The cost may also rise into the billions. As most people […]
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NO Huawei – UK Gov BANs New 5G Mobile Kit from Dec 2020 UPDATED

July 14, 2020, 4:59 am
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The UK Government has today confirmed a dramatic U-turn, which means that new core and non-core 5G kit from Chinese tech giant Huawei will be banned from use in mobile networks from 31st December 2020. But existing kit will get until 2027 for removal and a decision on FTTP broadband ISPs will come later. The […]
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Three UK Targets Delayed eSIM Support for September 2020

July 15, 2020, 12:16 am
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Mobile operator Three UK still appears to be slowly dragging its feet over the proposed addition of eSIM support to their 4G and 5G network, which is despite last December pledging to launch customer trials “within the next few months.” We’re still waiting, but it may now launch around the start of autumn. Just to […]
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Channel Islands Align with UK Gov’s Anti-Huawei 5G Approach

July 17, 2020, 8:15 am
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The Government of Jersey (English Channel Island) has signalled that it intends to “align” its approach to the deployment of 5G mobile technology with that of the UK, which effectively means banning the use of “high risk” vendors such as the Chinese firm Huawei and ZTE. Guernsey has echoed this. In case anybody has been […]
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Vodafone UK Mobile Adds Amazon Prime and YouTube Premium

July 21, 2020, 3:35 am
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Customers of Vodafone’s 4G and 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) services may like to know that the operator has just added content from Amazon Prime and YouTube Premium to their service, which means that Pay Monthly customers can optionally add them to their “Entertainment” plans as part of a single bill. Until recently those paying […]
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Lords Told UK Farmers Have to Visit McDonald’s for Broadband

July 22, 2020, 12:49 am
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Yesterday’s debate on the forthcoming Agriculture Bill 2019-21 saw the House of Lords being told, by non-affiliated life peer Lord Holmes of Richmond, that some of the farmers he knows have such poor access to internet connectivity that they “have to go to McDonald’s to get broadband coverage.“ The new bill isn’t actually supposed to […]
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Big UK Rule Changes to Boost Gigabit Broadband and 5G Rollout

July 22, 2020, 4:39 am
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The UK Government has today confirmed a series of changes to both the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) and Mobile infrastructure planning, which when taken together are intended to help boost the on-going deployment of both “gigabit-capable” broadband and 5G mobile networks (as well as the Shared Rural Network). First up we have the ECC, which […]
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