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Vodafone and O2 Extend UK Network Sharing to 5G Mobile and Fibre
Mobile operators Vodafone and O2 have today announced a tentative agreement that will see their current UK network sharing deal being extended to include future 5G (mobile broadband) services. On top...
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Assembly Warn Wales Risks Falling Behind in Race to Rollout 5G Mobile
The Welsh Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee has warned that Mobile coverage in Wales “consistently lags behind the rest of the UK,” which could hamper the roll-out of future Gigabit capable...
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Government Scraps 5G Mobile Trial on Trans Pennine Rail Route
The UK Government has abandoned part of their £35m trial of 5G based mobile broadband and fibre optic technology on the Trans Pennine rail (train) route between Manchester and York, which is a joint...
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Trial of 1Gbps 5G Mobile Network for UK Autonomous Vehicles to Start
The AutoAir project, which is supported by a £4.1m Government grant, has confirmed that the UK’s first independent 5G enabled trial of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) will go live this month...
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Vodafone UK Start Testing Early Mock 5G Smartphone in Newbury
Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that they’ve this week joined with Qualcomm and Ericsson to conduct “over the air” tests of their future 5G network with an early Smartphone prototype,...
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CBI Warn Brexit Sucking the Life Out of UK Broadband and Mobile
The Confederation of British Industry has warned that Brexit is “sucking the oxygen out of priorities” like deploying “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband and 5G. Instead the business group wants the...
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The Top UK Train Operators Ranked by Internet Reliability for 2019
The latest survey of 27,000 UK train passengers from Transport Focus (TF) has revealed that just 33% of commuters are satisfied with the reliability of their on-board internet connection (up from 30%...
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Driverless Cars Hampered in UK by Poor 4G Mobile Broadband
The latest KPMG report into the readiness of countries for the adoption of driverless cars (autonomous vehicles) has seen the United Kingdom fall two places to be ranked 7th overall, which is just...
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First British 5G Mobile Smart Factory Trials Go Live in Worcestershire
A consortium of organisations in Worcestershire (England) have today switched-on Britain’s first factory trial of future 5G mobile technology, which is being funded by a grant of £4.8m from the UK...
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Government Sets Out Strategic Priorities for UK Broadband and Mobile
The Government has today set out its first ever Statement of Strategic Priorities (SSP) for UK mobile and broadband services, which requires Ofcom to reflect in their work the need to build...
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NIC Open Future of Regulation Study into UK Telecoms and Utilities
The Government’s National Infrastructure Commission has today announced the launch of yet another study, which is seeking evidence on what “future changes” may be required to ensure regulation of the...
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Vodafone UK Test Ultrafast 5G Fuelled WiFi at Manchester Airport
Download speeds of up to 200Mbps have been seen after Vodafone UK added Manchester Airport to their public test sites for future 5G based Mobile Broadband technology. As a result travellers have been...
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London Wireless Broadband ISP Relish Rebrands to Three UK
The inevitable has happened. Fixed wireless broadband ISP Relish, which use to be part of UK Broadband Ltd. until the latter was gobbled up in 2017 by mobile operator Three UK for £250m (here), is...
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Three UK Test New “world first” Fully Cloud-Based Core Network
Mobile operator Three UK has announced that they’ve begun working with Nokia to test a new software-based cloud core network, which they say is a “world first“. This will be used to support the...
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Countries Ranked by 4G Download Speed at Different Times of Day
Crowd-sourced data analyst firm OpenSignal has today published a new report that examines how future 5G based Mobile Broadband networks could solve the congestion problems of current 4G networks, which...
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O2 Name First UK Cities to Benefit from 5G Mobile Rollout in 2019
Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica), which is currently home to a UK customer base of 32.6 million, has today announced that they will commence the roll-out of their next generation ultrafast 5G (mobile...
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Trial Connects Monmouthshire Village to 1Gbps Wireless Broadband
Several homes in the tiny rural Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llanddewi Rhydderch can now access broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps thanks to a new 5G style trial, which has been supported by funding...
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NIC Calls Out UK Gov for Foot Dragging Over Digital Infrastructure
A new report from the National Infrastructure Commission warns the UK Government not to “take their eye off the ball,” particularly after it identified that a large number of previously accepted...
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EE UK Prep Huawei 5G CPE Pro Router for Home Mobile Broadband
Mobile operator EE (BT) has revealed that they intend to offer the Huawei 5G CPE Pro device as a “home router” alongside their future mobile broadband service for UK homes, which can in theory deliver...
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FirstGroup and Blu Wireless to Upgrade UK Trains with 5G Broadband
A new partnership between Blu Wireless, Network Rail, the Department for Transport, DCMS and FirstGroup has been announced that could see Gigabit capable 5G Fixed Wireless Broadband being installed...
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