Vodafone UK Top 606000 Fixed Broadband Users as 5G Roaming Live
Mobile giant and UK ISP Vodafone has published their latest quarterly results to the end of June (Q1 FY20) and launched 5G roaming in 55 towns and cities across four countries (Germany, Italy, Spain...
View ArticleSky Mobile UK Preparing to Launch 5G Plans in November 2019
Sky (Sky Broadband) has this morning announced that they will launch their own 5G based Sky Mobile plans during November 2019, which as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partner of O2 will of...
View ArticleThree UK Reveal 5G Mobile Prices – Unrestricted and At No Extra Cost
Mobile operator Three UK has today confirmed that all new and existing customers will have access to 5G, when it launches in August 2019 (details), with no mobile broadband speed caps and at no extra...
View ArticleBT Sees its UK Broadband ISP Traffic Peak at 13 Terabits in March 2019
Customers of BT’s (EE) retail fixed line broadband ISP business (around 9.4 million of them) hit a new record level of internet data traffic after the network peaked at around 13Tbps (Terabits per...
View ArticleSatisfaction with Home WiFi Reliability and Mobile Signal by UK Region
Nominet has published the results of new poll, which queried 2,080 UK adults about their home internet connectivity (i.e. attitudes to broadband ISP, WiFi and mobile reliability). Overall 60% of...
View ArticleThree UK in L-Band Rollout as Mobile Data Usage Per User Hits 9.1GB
Mobile operator Three UK has today released their latest results to the end of June 2019 (H1 19 financial), which amongst other things revealed that monthly Mobile Broadband (3G / 4G) data usage per...
View ArticleSamsung Users Experience Faster 4G Speeds than Apple or Huawei
Crowd-sourced analyst firm Opensignal has tested the Mobile Broadband speeds experienced by the three largest Smartphone makers (by shipment volume) across 73 countries – Apple, Huawei and Samsung –...
View ArticleGigabit Wireless Broadband Trial in Rural Wales Morphs into FTTP
Homes in the rural Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llanddewi Rhydderch may soon be connected to a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband ISP network from Broadway Partners, which...
View ArticleEE UK Add Amazon Prime Video and Gamer’s Data Pass to Smart Plans
Mobile network operator EE UK (BT) has today added the option of two new “Swappable Benefits” – Amazon Prime Video (£5.99 per month) and Gamer’s Data Pass (£7.99 per month) – to their 4G and 5G based...
View ArticleFidelity to Rollout First UK 5G Fixed Wireless Broadband in West Sussex
A new wireless ISP called Fidelity Broadband is planning to build and operate the United Kingdom’s first 1Gbps capable 5G based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service, which will harness transmitters in...
View ArticleNew Study Slams Lack of 100% UK Geographic 4G Mobile Coverage
A new Which? study has found that in 524 out of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies 4G mobile coverage is not available via all four operators to the whole constituency. The most poorly-served...
View ArticleO2 and Three UK Clash Over Ofcom 5G Spectrum Defragmentation Plan
Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has criticised Ofcom’s recent proposal to defragment the 5G ultrafast mobile broadband friendly 3.4-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands after next year’s auction, which they...
View ArticleQuickline Get £12m to Rollout 100Mbps Wireless Across North of UK
Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Quickline, which is part of Bigblu, has today announced that they’ve secured an investment of £12 million to help rollout a new unlimited “ultrafast broadband”...
View ArticleISP Vodafone UK Launch Unlimited 5G and Fixed Broadband Bundle
Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today launched their new triple-play “Together” bundle, which combines a fixed line phone service with unlimited home broadband (FTTC / VDSL2) and 5G based...
View ArticleStudy Claims UK Restaurants “Ruined” by Poor Mobile Connectivity
A new survey of 2,000 mobile phone using UK adults, which was conducted by Global Wireless Solutions and OnePoll, has claimed that 11% of respondents felt their experience in a restaurant had “been...
View ArticleThree UK Goes LIVE with 5G and £35 Unlimited Home Broadband Plan
Three UK (Hutchison 3G UK) will today join EE and Vodafone by confirming that their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network has finally gone live, starting in busy parts of London with a £35 home...
View ArticleEE Get the Hump Over Three UK’s “Real 5G” Mobile Advert Claim
“If it’s not Three, it’s not real 5G” said Three UK this morning (here) when promoting the launch of their new 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband network. In response rival operator EE (BT) is...
View ArticleOrkney 5G Trial Tests Li-Fi Wireless Broadband via Solar Panels
Now this really is unique. One of the Government funded 5G RuralFirst testbeds on Orkney (Scotland) appears to be delivering “high-speed” wireless broadband to a number of remote rural properties by...
View ArticleThe Project Using Twitter to Map UK 4G, 5G Mobile Notspots
A new UK Government funded project called NoServiceHere is hoping, among other things, to harness the power of the Twitter community in order to help identify areas (rural and urban) of poor mobile...
View ArticleImproved Mobile Planning Rules and £30m for UK Rural 5G Trials
The UK Government has commitment another £30m to help up to 10 rural locations conduct “innovative trials” of 5G mobile / mobile broadband applications as part of a new Rural Connected Communities...
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