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BBC iPlayer and YouTube Added to EE’s 4G and 5G Video Data Pass
Mobile operator EE has announced that their Video Data Pass add-on, which allows UK customers of their 4G and 5G based mobile broadband network to stream online video without it reducing their monthly...
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Vodafone UK Confirms Isles of Scilly to Get 5G Mobile in July
Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that the Isles of Scilly, which sits 45km off the south coast of Cornwall, will join Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and London as...
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EE UK Details New HTC 5G Hub Mobile Broadband WiFi Router
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today revealed further details about their new 5GEE WiFi plans and advanced HTC 5G Hub (Mobile Smart Hub) wireless router, which will deliver ultrafast mobile broadband...
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Rural Gigabit Wireless Broadband Trial in Wales Delivers Just 30Mbps+
Homes connecting to a supposedly 1Gbps wireless broadband trial in the tiny rural Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llanddewi Rhydderch, which is supported by the UK Government, have yet to experience...
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ISP BT to Follow EE and Launch Ultrafast 5G Mobile this Autumn
In an unsurprising development BT has announced that they will launch their own 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband service this autumn, which will initially be made available to subscribers of their...
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Loon’s 4G Broadband by Balloon Project Moves to Commercial Trial
Google (Alphabet) has announced that Loon, which is a long-running project that aims to distribute mobile broadband (4G / 5G) connectivity from High Altitude Platforms (stratospheric balloons), will in...
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Vodafone UK Give 5G Launch a Boost by Adding Unlimited Data
ISP Vodafone has today gone live in 7 UK cities with their new 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband network. At the same time they’ve moved to challenge Three UK by introducing a new range of SIM-only...
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UK Slowest as OpenSignal Tests Early 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds
Crowd-sourced analyst firm OpenSignal has today published the first results from their initial real-world benchmarks of 5G based mobile broadband networks across 8 countries (i.e. those that have...
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Quickline’s Trial 5G Wireless Network in Lincolnshire Set to Go Live
Wireless UK ISP Quickline has announced that their part of the £2.1m Government funded 5G Rural Integrated Testbed (5GRIT) pilot is due to start testing its new network later this month, which will...
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Cross-Party Security Committee to Probe UK 5G Mobile Networks
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has launched a new inquiry into UK 5G and fixed broadband telecommunications infrastructure, which in the wake of all the alleged risks...
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Glasgow and London Underground May Trial 5G Infotainment
A joint £2.4m UK project with South Korea looks set to trial how ultrafast 5G wireless data connections could be used to support “uninterrupted infotainment services” (i.e. travel services,...
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Three UK Launch Live Fully Integrated Cloud Core Network – 5G Ready
Mobile operator Three UK has today gone live with their new “world’s first” software-based cloud core network, which sits in a virtual environment and will be used to underpin the launch of their new...
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Vodafone 5G Now Live in 15 UK Towns and Cities as Roaming Grows
Vodafone has announced that their new 5G network, which promises average mobile broadband speeds of 150-200Mbps and peaks up to 1Gbps, has now started rolling out into Birkenhead, Bolton, Gatwick,...
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Fibre ISPs Take Note – UK Consults on New EU Electronic Comms Code
The Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has begun consulting on its plan to implement the new European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) into UK law, which...
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Broadband Segregation Risk as ISPs Shun Slower Speed ADSL Lines
A few years ago Sky Broadband became the first ISP to stop accepting orders from UK customers on lines – often rural ones – where speeds were stuck below 2Mbps (here). Sadly more providers appear to...
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Government Creates Security Framework for the UK Telecoms Sector
The Government has concluded its Telecoms Supply Chain Review and plans to establish new Telecoms Security Requirements, which will be underpinned by a legislative framework that hands stronger...
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O2 and Vodafone Finalise UK Agreement to Share 5G Active Equipment
Mobile operators O2 and Vodafone have today finalised a deal that will extend their existing joint 50:50 network sharing agreement to include 5G mobile active equipment, such as radio antennas, on...
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BT Makes Progress Building New UK Cloud Core Network
ISP BT has picked Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu – the latter of which is an open source Linux based Operating System (OS) – as a key component of its next generation 5G Core network....
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O2 UK Sets October 2019 Rollout for Ultrafast 5G Mobile Broadband
Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has today confirmed that their next generation ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) network will join EE, Vodafone and Three UK by beginning its commercial rollout in October...
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Ofcom Opens UK Radio Spectrum for Smaller Local Wireless Networks
As expected Ofcom has today unveiled a new new sharing framework that will be applied for four of the United Kingdom’s radio spectrum frequency bands (airwaves), which should make it possible for...
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