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Three UK Extend Ultrafast 5G Mobile to 193 UK Towns and Cities

February 26, 2021, 1:46 am
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Mobile operator Three UK has today revealed that their 5G based (mobile broadband) network is now live across busy parts of some 193 UK towns and cities (equating to 1,250 cell sites and masts). On top of that they’re still boosting 4G speeds by extending the reach of their L-Band (1.4GHz) spectrum. Technically speaking the […]
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New UK Infrastructure Bank May Boost Gigabit Broadband and 5G

February 28, 2021, 1:43 am
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The HM Treasury has announced that its plan to setup a new UK Infrastructure Bank, which was first proposed in last year’s Spending Review, will be supported by an initial £12bn in capital investment and £10bn in loan guarantees. In theory this could help to unlock more private investment, such as to boost the gigabit […]
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Vodafone UK Donates 10,000 Mobile Broadband Dongles to Kids

March 2, 2021, 1:46 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that they will donate 10,000 “dongle devices” (i.e. mobile broadband modems) to help thousands more children and young people connect to remote learning and online catch up lessons during the COVID-19 crisis. As usual this is focused on those kids who may lack the necessary kit at home. The […]
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Budget 2021 Offers Nothing New for UK Gigabit Broadband Projects

March 3, 2021, 6:10 am
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The UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak MP, has today published his Budget 2021 statement and sadly there were no new details for the £5bn UK Gigabit Broadband Programme. But we did get a few extra details on their recently confirmed plans for a new UK Infrastructure Bank, some of which had already been confirmed. Just to […]
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DCMS Committee Demands Answers on UK Gigabit Broadband Target UPDATE

March 5, 2021, 11:25 pm
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The Chair of the cross-party DCMS Select Committee, Julian Knight, has criticised the UK Government for having “failed to answer” a key question in their recent report, which called for a detailed plan to show how it would deliver on its revised-down target for “gigabit-capable broadband.” The committee is now seeking a fuller response. The […]
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New Toolkit to Aid Scotland’s Rollout of 5G Mobile Broadband

March 6, 2021, 4:01 pm
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The Infralink programme, which is funded by The Scotland 5G Centre (i.e. it’s one of their key Wave 1 projects), has today launched a “game-changing” initiative that will pave the way for greater 4G and 5G mobile connectivity across Scotland by helping to “identify sites on public buildings for masts and antennae.” Apparently, this “toolkit” […]
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Survey Claims 54% of UK Mobile Users Suffer Signal Woes at Home

March 9, 2021, 4:01 pm
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A new Opinium based survey from Uswitch.com, which questioned a “nationally representative” sample of 2,000 UK adults during February 2021, has found that 54.4% of respondents (equivalent to 29.5 million UK consumers) have suffered from some form of mobile signal “issue” at home, and it’s worse in rural areas. The survey claims that 27% of […]
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Ofcom to Start UK 5G Mobile Auction for 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz

March 10, 2021, 2:35 am
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The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that their auction of the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands will begin this Friday (12th March). The move should ultimately help to improve the coverage and speed of 5G mobile (mobile broadband) networks. Overall Ofcom aims to auction off 80MHz of spectrum frequency in the 700MHz […]
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Vodafone UK Launch Mobile Plans for Disadvantaged Communities

March 10, 2021, 8:28 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone, which previously offered 350,000 free mobile broadband SIMs (30GB allowance – valid for 90 days) to disadvantaged school children across the UK (here), has today launched a new range of discounted plans to help private and public sector organisations to get their most vulnerable customers online. The communities.connected plans are said to […]
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Preliminary Winners of Ofcom’s UK 5G Mobile Auction Revealed

March 17, 2021, 12:34 am
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Ofcom has today revealed the winners from the “principal stage” of their latest 5G focused mobile (mobile broadband) spectrum auction for the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz bands, which saw operators spend a total of £1.356 billion across the various bands and EE (BT) appears to have gobbled up the most (£452m). Just to recap. The regulator […]
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Ofcom Unveils 2021 Changes to Boost UK Full Fibre Broadband UPDATE

March 18, 2021, 12:53 am
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Ofcom has today published the outcome of their Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review 2021-26 (FTMR), which sets out how various changes (Dark Fibre Access, copper retirement, regulation that varies by geographic area etc.) will be used to boost UK investment in “full fibre” broadband and high capacity Ethernet services. The FTMR is rather different from […]
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Three UK Discounts Unlimited 4G and 5G Home Broadband Plans

March 18, 2021, 6:59 am
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Mobile operator Three UK today reports that they’ve “slashed” their 4G and 5G powered unlimited home broadband prices in order to help people who are stuck at home. Prices now start from as little as £17 per month for “superfast” 4G broadband, and £24 per month for “ultrafast” 5G – “with the average download speed […]
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Smarty UK Refresh 4G Mobile SIM Only Plans with More Data

March 18, 2021, 5:01 pm
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Mobile operator Smarty has this week announced that they’ve refreshed their range of SIM-Only mobile plans by giving them all bigger data allowances (mobile broadband) and often for no extra cost. For example, their entry-level plan previously only included 1GB (GigaByte) of data for £6 per month, but you’ll now get 4GB for that. As […]
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Welsh Government Publish New Digital Strategy for Wales

March 23, 2021, 10:37 am
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The Welsh Government (WG) has today published a new Digital Strategy for Wales, which among other things sets out how they will use the levers at their disposal to support the public sector, businesses and homes in Wales to receive the broadband and mobile connectivity they need. But at this stage it’s all still a […]
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SIM Swap Causes Annoyance for UK ASDA Mobile Customers

March 26, 2021, 7:04 am
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Existing customers with the mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA have been told to request a new SIM card by the 15th September 2021, or risk being unable to use the service. The move follows a decision last year (here) to swap their Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) supplier from EE (BT) to Vodafone. Major […]
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Survey Claims UK Mobile Users Wasting 14GB of Data a Month

March 29, 2021, 11:50 pm
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A new survey of 4,000 UK mobile phone users by consumer magazine Which? has claimed that consumers on SIM-Only plans and contracts are “wasting” an average of 14GB (GigaBytes) of mobile broadband data each month. In short, some people could save money by switching to a plan with a smaller allowance. The survey, which was […]
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A Week of Extremes as Virgin Media’s UK Internet Traffic Surges

April 1, 2021, 2:18 am
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Gigabit broadband ISP Virgin Media has reported a week of extreme variations in UK internet traffic, which saw both the lowest level of upstream traffic in 2021 occur on Tuesday and then, the very next day, one of the highest peaks in downstream traffic hit their network (thanks to another massive Call of Duty update). […]
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USB vs WiFi – Tethering 4G Broadband to a Laptop via Android Phones

April 5, 2021, 4:01 pm
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A lot of UK people have tried tethering their Smartphone’s mobile broadband (4G, 5G) connection to a laptop by using the ‘Wi-Fi Hotspot‘ feature, but not everybody is aware that you can do the same thing by using a wired USB-C cable. As a bit of fun we decided to find out if tethering via […]
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EE Adds 35 New UK Locations to their Ultrafast 5G Mobile Cover

April 8, 2021, 12:20 am
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Mobile operator EE (BT) has confirmed that a further 35 towns and cities across the United Kingdom have started to go live on their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network, which brings the total location count to 160. Some of the biggest additions include York (Yorkshire), Dundee (Scotland) and Swansea (Wales). Unlike other operators EE […]
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Six Westminster Street Markets Get Free Gigabit Speed Wi-Fi

April 8, 2021, 1:33 am
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Six street markets in the London borough of Westminster, including Church Street and Berwick Street among others, claim to have deployed a new “superfast” public WiFi network to help local traders, customers and visitors get online via a “gigabit-speed outdoor wireless” broadband connection. The “free-to-use” network, which has been deployed by wireless infrastructure-as-a-service provider Ontix, […]
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