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EE Tops Tutela’s Q3 2021 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks UPDATE

October 14, 2021, 2:00 am
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Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Tutela has published their latest Q3 2021 study of mobile broadband (4G and 5G) performance across the United Kingdom, which found that EE “dominated the majority of the metrics tested,” but Three UK are challenging when looking at the latest ultrafast 5G services. The latest report is based on data from the […]
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H2 2021 Test of 5G Speed in Coventry, Leeds and Bradford, Nottingham and Sheffield

October 14, 2021, 2:56 am
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Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics has today published the first H2 2021 results from their testing of 5G (mobile broadband) networks in the UK cities and towns of Coventry, Leeds and Bradford, Nottingham and Sheffield. EE delivered the fastest speed and availability in most of the locations, but not all. The company tends to conduct their […]
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Samsung to Trial 4G and 5G Mobile in the UK via Virgin Media O2

October 19, 2021, 2:49 am
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Technology giant Samsung has today revealed that UK mobile operator O2 (VMO2) will shortly become one of the first providers in the country to conduct a commercial trial of their latest 5G Massive MIMO radios, as well as 4G radios, over both low-band and mid-band spectrum frequencies. The new kit will also be OpenRAN compliant. […]
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City of Sunderland to Build Private Small Cell 5G Mobile Network

October 20, 2021, 10:00 pm
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The UK Sunderland City Council (SCC) has today announced that they’ve awarded a 20-year strategic partnership to BAI Communications, which among other things is to be tasked with designing, building and operating next generation digital infrastructure including a private 5G small cell network. The coastal city of Sunderland (Tyne and Wear, England) has already won […]
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EE UK Starts Switching-on 5G Mobile via the 700MHz Band

October 28, 2021, 6:42 am
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Mobile operator EE (BT) has today begun to rollout the new 700MHz band across their UK ultrafast 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network. As part of this, they’re switching on “indoor 5G” at more than 50 sites across the United Kingdom, although they fail to name even one of them. Just to recap. Ofcom auctioned […]
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ISP BT and OneWeb UK Sign Satellite Broadband Distribution Deal

November 2, 2021, 1:29 am
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UK ISP BT and satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government, have today officially signed a Distribution Partner Agreement that could result in faster low-latency backhaul and broadband solutions for businesses. Further down the line, it may also help to cover rural homes by fuelling Fixed Wireless Access. At present OneWeb […]
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ASDA Mobile UK Boosts Entry Level SIM Only Data Allowances

November 3, 2021, 12:23 am
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The mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA, which is powered by a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with Vodafone, has this week “permanently boosted” the data (mobile broadband) allowances of their entry-level £5 and £7 per month mobile bundles at no extra cost. Previously, customers would get 1GB (GigaByte) of data for £5 a […]
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Consultation on New Tools to Help Telecoms Negotiations in Scotland

November 3, 2021, 5:22 am
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The Infralink programme, which is supported by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) and the Scotland 5G Centre, has today invited views and opinions from landlords, the mobile phone sector and their advisors to help improve the complicated process of locating digital infrastructure and making it “fit for purpose“. Back in March 2021, Infralink, published their […]
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BT Group’s UK FTTP Broadband Cover Hits 5.8 Million Premises

November 4, 2021, 12:50 am
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The BT Group has published their Q2 2021/22 results, which reports that their consumer ISP division now has a total of 945,000 broadband customers on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (up from 860K last quarter), while Openreach has grown their UK FTTP coverage to 5.78m premises (up from 5.16m). Build costs have also fallen. Once again, […]
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Ofcom UK Expands the Range of Indoor Mobile Signal Boosters

November 4, 2021, 4:35 am
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Ofcom has today confirmed that they will next year introduce new changes to help expand the range of licence exempt “mobile phone repeaters” for UK consumers to adopt, which can be used in locations where people want to boost mobile signals for indoor and in-vehicle (low gain) use. Since 2018 it’s been possible for consumers […]
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Dorset Project Demos Satellite Backhaul from a 5G Standalone Network

November 8, 2021, 3:39 am
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The 5G RuralDorset project, which is testing various 5G based mobile voice and broadband technologies alongside existing fibre cables, claims to have achieved a “world-first” by demonstrating satellite backhaul from a 5G Standalone network (i.e. using satellite to keep the connection live when terrestrial mobile fails). The work reflects part of the Connected Coast project […]
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ISP Baltic Broadband Introduce Baltic Backpack to Fix Connectivity

November 8, 2021, 8:14 am
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Business ISP Baltic Broadband, which typically offers a mix of fixed wireless and full fibre broadband to firms in the Liverpool area, has introduced an unusual new product called the ‘Baltic Backpack‘ – designed to be introduced to tackle areas of slow or failed broadband, seemingly by harnessing multiple cellular networks. According to the announcement, […]
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UK Government Launch Bid for Seat on the UN Telecoms Council

November 10, 2021, 3:00 am
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The UK Government will today launch its election manifesto as part of efforts to secure a seat on the governing council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which will give it more of a say in future standards (broadband, satellite technologies etc.) and the allocation of global spectrum (mobile etc.) etc. As part of the […]
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The EU Publishes 2021 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study

November 12, 2021, 8:18 am
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After a long delay due to COVID-19, the European Commission has today published their annual 2021 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which reveals how the EU’s fixed line broadband ISP and mobile networks compare. The UK was removed from this edition due to Brexit, so we’ve used Ofcom’s data to compare. At present the […]
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O2 UK to Start Roll Out of SMS for WiFi Calling by End of 2021

November 12, 2021, 4:01 pm
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Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that, after a long wait, they intend to finally start rolling out SMS (text messaging) support for Wi-Fi Calling “before the end of the year“, but this will be a gradual phased process that looks set to continue more widely during Q1 2022. At present all the […]
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Next UK Infrastructure Assessment to Focus on Gigabit Broadband Takeup

November 15, 2021, 2:17 am
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The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has today revealed the topics that will sit at the heart of their next (second) major assessment of the UK’s long-term infrastructure priorities, to be published in 2023, which among other things looks set to shift the focus on gigabit broadband from build to take-up. The Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit […]
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Vodafone UK Grows to 962k Fixed Broadband ISP Customers

November 16, 2021, 12:26 am
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ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today published their latest quarterly results (financial Q2 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +22,000 customers (vs +29k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 962,000. But their mobile base sat unchanged on 16,994,000. The operator has been in the […]
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Vodafone UK Launch New 5G TCL HH500V GigaCube Router

November 17, 2021, 2:39 am
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New customers of Vodafone‘s ultrafast 5G mobile based broadband packages may be interested to know that they’ve just introduced a new router to the bundle, which is named as the TCL HH500V GigaCube. In addition, their plans are currently half price for the first 6 months of service. According to the announcement, Vodafone’s new 5G […]
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EE UK Customers Offered XBox Consoles and Game Pass Ultimate

November 18, 2021, 1:47 am
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Mobile operator EE UK has today announced that Pay Monthly Mobile customers of their service can now take a Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with “unlimited gaming data” from £21 a month (£31 with the video data pass) and they can also have an Xbox Series X video gaming console for just £10 upfront. The […]
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VOXI Offers UK 5G Mobile Plans with Refurbished Smartphones

November 23, 2021, 2:18 am
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Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is the virtual operator sibling of Vodafone UK, has today begun offering customers the option of buying a cheaper “refurbished” smartphone alongside bundles with their various 4G and 5G capable mobile (mobile broadband) plans. The move will save consumers money and reduce electronic waste. We should point out that all […]
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