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Giffgaff Predict UK 5G Mobile Data Use Per User of 100GB by 2025

January 30, 2018, 2:14 am
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Mobile operator giffgaff, which harnesses O2’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform, has predicted that the future rollout of 5G services within the UK could push their average monthly data usage per user (SIM) from 3.95GB (GigaByes) in 2017 to 98.34GB by 2025. We should point out that Ofcom’s figure for average data use per […]
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Best and Worst UK Train Operators Ranked by Internet Reliability

January 31, 2018, 10:57 am
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A new survey of 27,819 train passengers, which was conducted by Transport Focus during autumn 2017, has revealed that just 30% of commuters are satisfied with the reliability of their on-board internet connection (56% dissatisfied and 14% undecided). Southeastern came bottom (18% satisfied). The very fact that trains are themselves a mobile platform, which are […]
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5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Proceeds After Appeal by Three UK Fails

February 13, 2018, 11:39 pm
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Last night the Court of Appeal in London rejected Three UK’s final attempt to have Ofcom impose a 30% spectrum cap on their forthcoming auction of 4G and 5G friendly radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands, which would have stopped EE (BT) from bidding and hampered Vodafone. At present Ofcom has already imposed […]
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Mobile Operator O2 UK Confirms First 5G Test Bed Set for London

February 22, 2018, 8:19 am
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Mobile network operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has today announced that they too are planning to conduct a test of future 5G ultrafast Mobile Broadband technology, which will take place at The O2 venue in North Greenwich later this year. Apparently installation of the new network test bed will begin in March 2018 and “visitors [will […]
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Ofcom Clears 6 UK Mobile Operators to Bid on 4G and 5G Spectrum

February 26, 2018, 11:41 pm
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The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today approved six telecoms operators’ to take part in the forthcoming auction of 4G and 5G friendly radio spectrum, which will see 40MHz of frequency in the 2.3GHz band and 150MHz in the 3.4GHz band being distributed. The auction will also impose a cap of 255MHz on the “immediately […]
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Ofcom Consult on UK Rural 5G Mobile Coverage Obligation at 700MHz

March 9, 2018, 3:47 am
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The UK telecoms regulator has today launched a new consultation, which seeks to establish what sort of future 4G or 5G based coverage obligation will be attached to the 700MHz band of radio spectrum for mobile network operators (due to be auctioned off during late 2019). At present Three UK, O2, Vodafone and EE (BT) […]
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Government Name Six UK Winners of £25m for 5G Mobile Trials

March 9, 2018, 4:01 pm
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The government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has today named six projects that have won a slice of £25 million (public funding) to help trial the next generation of 5G based Mobile and fixed wireless broadband ISP technology at various locations across the United Kingdom. The investment is specifically intended to support […]
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Ofcom to Begin UK 4G and 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Next Week

March 12, 2018, 4:03 am
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The national telecoms regulator has today confirmed that their auction of 4G and 5G friendly Mobile spectrum, which will see 40MHz of frequency in the 2.3GHz band (2350-2390MHz) and 150MHz in the 3.4GHz band (3410-3480MHz and 3500-3580MHz) being distributed, will begin on Tuesday 20th March. The auction process is expected to run for “a number […]
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O2 Study Believes 5G Mobile Will Save UK Households £450 Per Year

March 15, 2018, 2:32 am
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A new report from mobile operator O2 has claimed that future 5G networks could save UK households £450 a year on energy, council and food bills. Apparently it’s all due to swanky things like smart grids, discounts on council tax (hah!) and reducing food waste etc. Break out the salt for some pinching. The 5G-hype-o-meter […]
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Fixed Wireless ISP Connexin Drops Out of UK Spectrum Auction

March 16, 2018, 12:40 am
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Fixed wireless access ISP Connexin, which operates broadband networks in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has this morning suddenly dropped out of next week’s UK auction for the 4G friendly 2.3GHz mobile spectrum band and the 5G friendly 3.4GHz band. The provider was announced as one of the six qualifying applicants for next Tuesday’s auction […]
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EE UK Fills 12000km2 of UK Notspots for Mobile Network Coverage

March 19, 2018, 7:30 am
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Mobile operator EE has announced that they’ve “filled in” 12,000 square kilometres of mobile not-spots in the last 12 months, which forms part of their aim to extend geographic (landmass) 4G network coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of December 2020 (currently 90%). In keeping with that EE says they’ve upgraded more […]
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Cambridgeshire UK Tout £5.5m to Boost FTTP Broadband and Mobile

March 21, 2018, 4:36 am
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The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority in England has today proposed to invest a further £5.5 million into helping expand the availability of 300Mbps capable FTTP “full fibre” broadband, as well as improving Mobile (4G and 5G) and public WiFi coverage over the next 4 years. At present the local Connecting Cambridgeshire project is already […]
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5G Mobile Innovation Network Goes Live to Oversee UK Trials

March 27, 2018, 5:41 am
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The government supported UK5G innovation network has officially launched this week to help research, develop and oversee trials of the future 5G Mobile technology, which could one day deliver peak Mobile Broadband speeds of 20Gbps (with under 5ms latency) and eventually replace 4G. Last year’s Spring Budget 2017 announcement initially committed £16m toward setting up […]
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UK Government Goes Hunting for the First 5G Mobile City

March 29, 2018, 4:01 pm
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The UK government has today proposed to develop a “large-scale, citywide testbed” as part of a multi million pound “5G city” trial of the future high speed Mobile technology, which forms part of their Urban Connected Communities Project. The testbed will include testing how new technology can make urban communities “inherently safer, greener, more efficient […]
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Ofcom Reveal Initial UK 4G and 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Winners

April 5, 2018, 2:57 am
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The UK telecoms regulator has today revealed the preliminary winners from their auction of the new 4G Mobile friendly 2.3GHz and future 5G destined 3.4GHz radio spectrum bands. All of the major mobile operators have won a slice and the total value of the principal stage is £1,355,744,000. Both bands are being released in order […]
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Vodafone Claims First to Conduct UK 5G Mobile Trial at 3.4GHz

April 12, 2018, 5:20 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone has today claimed a “major milestone in UK telecommunications” by becoming the first in the country to test the new 3.4GHz radio spectrum band on a live 5G network, which ran between Manchester and the company’s HQ in Newbury (Berkshire). The move comes just one week after Vodafone secured a 50MHz slice […]
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Ofcom Publish Final Results from the UK 4G and 5G Mobile Auction

April 13, 2018, 2:23 am
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As expected the UK telecoms regulator has today finalised precisely how much extra mobile spectrum has been won in the recent auction of the 4G friendly 2.3GHz and future 5G targeted 3.4GHz radio spectrum bands, which saw EE (BT), O2, Three UK and Vodafone spend a total of £1.37bn. Overall some 40MHz of frequency in […]
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Industry Says UK Gov and Regulation is Key Barrier to Full Fibre Rollout

April 16, 2018, 2:09 am
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A recent debate of the Digital Infrastructure Panel (hosted by law firm Herbert Smith Freehills), which included representatives from ISPs BT, Hyperoptic and Virgin Media, has highlighted government policy and or regulation as the “key barrier” to large-scale investment in “full fibre” (FTTH/P) broadband. Overall some 50% of attendees identified the above issue as a […]
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Internet Users Only Keeping a UK Fixed Phone Line for Broadband

April 23, 2018, 4:01 pm
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Do we still need a fixed line telephone (voice) service? A new ISPreview survey of 1,911 readers has found that only 14.5% still use a landline phone service for making most of their calls and 67.2% said they’d get rid of it if the service wasn’t still needed by most ISPs for home broadband. Perhaps […]
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Mobile Operator Three UK Preparing to Enter the Business Market

April 24, 2018, 2:46 am
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Reports indicate that consumer focused mobile operator Three UK (CK Hutchison) are going through an upgrade of their national network, which aside from laying the ground work for a future 5G service will also pave the way for a move into business connectivity (beyond existing small business tariffs). The operator had originally hoped to enter […]
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