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Is UK 5G Mobile Dangerous to Human Health? A Fact Check
Lately we’ve heard a lot of remarks like this: “5G harms human health“, “5G kills bees“,”5G causes cancer“, “overwhelming evidence says 5G is dangerous” and “we have no evidence this technology is...
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Government to Unveil £40m for UK Rural 5G Broadband Pilots
The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is today reportedly gearing up to announce a fresh round of new capital investment in major infrastructure projects (HS2 etc.), which is expected to include a pot...
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All BT Customers Now Have Access to 5G Mobile Data Plans
UK ISP BT (EE) has today announced that they’ve extended the availability of their new “superfast” 5G mobile network to all customers. Previously you could only get access to 5G on BT by taking one of...
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Ericsson Use Commercial 5G mmW Kit to Hit 4.3Gbps Speed
Telecoms kit maker Ericsson has announced that they’ve been able to achieve mobile broadband download speeds of 4.3Gbps by harnessing 800MHz of spectrum frequency in the millimeter Wave (mmW) bands,...
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Three UK to Go Live with Ultrafast 5G Mobile at 65 Locations
After a delay Three UK (Hutchison 3G UK) has this morning announced the launch of their 5G mobile network for Smartphone users, which will be available across busy parts of 65 new locations from the...
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Cityfibre Deal to Provide Capacity for Three UK’s 5G Rollout
Mobile operator Three UK, which from the end of this month will have expanded their new ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) network to cover 65 new locations (here), has signed a new nationwide...
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Government Hand £65m to New UK 5G Mobile Broadband Trials
The UK Government has today announced £65m in public funding to help conduct “innovative” new R&D trials of 5G style applications and specific wireless broadband connectivity solutions, which among...
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Ofcom UK Tests 5G Mobile Emissions and Finds No Concerns
After recently publishing our fact check article on 5G (mobile broadband) health fears (here), we thought it might also be prudent to report on the results of Ofcom’s recent measurements of the...
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Vodafone UK Extend Unlimited Data to Mobile Broadband Plans
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has finally extended their range of “unlimited data” plans for 4G and 5G services to include their dedicated Mobile Broadband packages (i.e. data only SIMs, tablets, USB...
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New Antenna to Fuel Satellite Based WiFi on Some UK Trains
A team of researchers working out of the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have developed a new type of Hybrid Flat Panel Antenna (FPA), which could deliver fast on-board WiFi internet connectivity...
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Leeds City Council UK Sign £20.3m BT Full Fibre Rollout Deal
The Leeds City Council in Yorkshire has today signed a new £20.3m partnership with BT (Openreach), which will see the latter build a new local “full fibre” network to connect hundreds of schools, NHS...
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Tesco Mobile UK Launches Ultrafast 5G Plans in 24 UK Cities
The mobile division of Supermarket giant Tesco (Tesco Mobile) has today become the latest operator to launch plans based off the new ultrafast 5G network technology, which is initially available in...
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1Gbps Full Fibre Goes Live in Rural Llanddewi Rhydderch, Wales
Sixty homes in the tiny rural Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llanddewi Rhydderch have finally gone live on a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which has been installed by...
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Vodafone Invests in SpaceMobile – 4G and 5G via LEO Satellites
Vodafone has invested $25m (£19.5m) into Texas-based AST & Science, which is building a new set of low latency Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites under their “SpaceMobile” project. The constellation...
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Boris’s Gigabit Broadband for All UK by 2025 Aim Faces Inquiry
A cross-party group of MPs (select committee) has today launched a new inquiry, which will examine how “realistic” the Government’s challenging “ambition” is for ensuring that every home and business...
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Vodafone UK Offers Half Price Unlimited Mobile Data Plans
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has cut the price of their 4G and 5G focused SIM-Only “unlimited data” (mobile broadband) plans in half, albeit only when you take one of them on a lengthy 24 month contract...
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Birmingham Named Fastest of 16 UK Cities for Mobile Broadband
RootMetrics has published the results from their biannual H2 2019 study of mobile broadband (3G and 4G) speeds across 16 of the United Kingdom’s most populated cities, which found that people in...
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Operators Sign £1bn Deal for 95% Geographic UK 4G Cover by 2026
Mobile operators BT (EE), Vodafone, O2 and Three UK have today reached a final agreement on costs to support the Government’s £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) plan, which will work to extend geographic...
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Xbox Live Issues Plague Three UK’s 4G Mobile Home Broadband UPDATE
Some customers of Three UK’s home 4G broadband service, such as those with their Huawei B535 or other mobile WiFi routers and “unlimited data“, have since the end of February 2020 been suffering from...
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Budget 2020 Reiterates £5bn Pledge for UK Gigabit Broadband UPDATE
The Government’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak MP, has today issued his first 2020 budget and reiterated their plan to invest £5bn of public money to help spread “gigabit-capable” broadband...
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