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2nd Queen’s Speech Echoes Gigabit Broadband and Internet Plans
The Queen has today, for the second time since October, carried out the annual State Opening of Parliament, which repeated roughly the same list of Government policy plans as her prior visit. Once...
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50 Rural Monmouthshire Villages Targeted for FTTH Broadband
Residents in the tiny rural Monmouthshire village of Llanddewi Rhydderch in Wales now have a second 1Gbps capable speed option for broadband in the form of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network,...
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A Quick Snapshot of EE UK’s Mobile Christmas Internet Traffic
The CEO of BT’s Consumer divisions (BT, EE and Plusnet), Marc Allera, has posted a limited look at anonymised internet data traffic across EE’s mobile broadband network during Christmas Day and Boxing...
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O2 Extends Live 5G Mobile Network Coverage to 20 UK Cities
Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) ended 2019 last night by announcing that they had switched-on their ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband network in a further 13 cities across the United Kingdom,...
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Ofcom UK Propose Predictable Annual Work Plan for 2020-21
Just like clockwork the UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed a new annual work plan for the next year. The generalised summary covers everything from improving fairness for...
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Electrosensitivity UK Ad Banned for Claiming 5G is Dangerous
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a “misleading” advert by campaign group Electrosensitivity-UK after it wrongfully claimed that the roll-out of ultrafast 5G mobile networks could...
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Magdalene to Help EE and Three UK Deliver New Mobile Sites
Infrastructure firm Magdalene (part of M Group Services) has signed a new 5 year deal to help develop and upgrade 4G / 5G mobile sites (e.g. Masts) for Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), which is the...
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SHOCK – Councils Find UK Mobile Coverage Estimates Unreliable
The Local Government Association, which represents hundreds of councils across England and Wales, has finally figured out what almost everybody else has known for years, that those mobile network...
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Vodafone Extend Ultrafast 5G to Six More UK Cities and Towns
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that their new ultrafast 5G data (mobile broadband) network has now gone live in busy areas around the cities of Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds, as well as the...
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Farmers Survey Highlights Poor UK Rural Mobile and Broadband
Once again the National Farmers Union has published the results from its annual online and telephone based survey of several hundred members, which found that just 17% of farmers had access to...
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O2 UK Follows Vodafone into Testing an OpenRAN Network
Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica UK) has today announced its own plans for an Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN), which works to standardise the design and functionality of mobile network (3G, 4G or 5G)...
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Sky Mobile UK Add Ultrafast 5G Plans At No Extra Cost for VIPs
Sky (Sky Broadband) has, after a short delay, finally made ultrafast 5G technology available on their Sky Mobile plans at no extra cost (with VIP), which as part of their existing Mobile Virtual...
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BT Defends Cost Proposals for Sharing Rural UK Mobile Sites
Last year’s £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) agreement between BT (EE), Vodafone, Three UK and O2, which will see the operators working together in order to extend geographic 4G mobile (mobile...
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Broadband Requirements for Xbox’s New Console Streaming
Microsoft has just made their new Xbox Console Streaming feature more widely available, which means that anyone with an Xbox account (and on the Xbox Insider program) in the UK can now try their new...
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ICS Wants Full Fibre Broadband for All of Scotland by 2027 UPDATE
The new Infrastructure Commission for Scotland (ICS) has this morning published a blueprint for their proposed 30-year infrastructure strategy, which among other things calls on the Scottish Government...
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Huawei You GO! UK Green Lights Firm for non-Core Telecoms Kit
After a protracted period of uncertainty the UK Government has today confirmed that kit from Chinese technology giant Huawei and other “high risk vendors” will be banned from the “sensitive” core of...
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ASA Ban Vodafone UK Ads for Misleading Unlimited Data Claims
Complaints made by Virgin Media and Three UK have today resulted in the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning several adverts for Vodafone’s new “unlimited data” mobile plans, which primarily...
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Fight Over Costs Threatens Shared UK Rural Mobile Network
The £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) agreement between BT (EE), Vodafone, Three UK and O2, which aims to extend geographic 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025, could be in...
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Vodafone UK Totals 687000 Fixed Broadband ISP Customers
Mobile giant and UK ISP Vodafone has published their latest quarterly results to the end of December 2019 (financial Q3 19/20), which saw them add +20,000 fixed broadband customers to total 687,000...
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Infrastructure Commission Slams Naff Mobile on UK Railways
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has today warned in a new report that “inadequate” mobile (4G, 5G etc.) connectivity continues to be a big problem on the UK’s railways, which they blame on...
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