Trading Standards to Halt Sales of £300 SCAM Anti-5G USB Stick
The City of London Police (Action Fraud Squad) and UK Trading Standards are to target sales of the bizarre £300 5GBioShield, which was recommended by a member of Glastonbury Town Council’s much...
View ArticleEE Switch-on Ultrafast 5G Mobile Network in 9 Extra UK Towns
Mobile operator EE (BT) has started to extend their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network to cover an additional 9 towns and cities across the United Kingdom, including locations such as...
View ArticleGuernsey ISP Sure to Replace 10G with 100G Core Network
The incumbent broadband ISP and mobile network operator for the English Channel Island of Guernsey, Sure, has today chosen UK technology and network services company telent to help upgrade their...
View ArticleO2 UK to Boost Mobile Cover on London North Eastern Railway
O2 has signed a new partnership deal with London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which aims to boost 4G and 5G based network coverage along a 45-mile stretch of the East Coast route – between Newcastle...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Saw Big Falls in 4G Mobile Speed and Rise in WiFi Use
Opensignal, which specialises in crowd-sourced testing of 4G and 5G based mobile networks, has updated their study of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis to show how much of an impact it had on...
View ArticleCOVID-19 5G Conspiracy Arsonist Gets 3 Years for Burning Mast
The Liverpool Crown Court has sentenced Michael Whitty (47) to three years in prison after he set fire to one of Vodafone UK’s 4G masts in Kirkby on 5th April 2020, which caused damage estimated to be...
View ArticleO2 and Ericsson Deal to Continue 5G Rollout Across the UK
Mobile operator O2 UK and telecoms technology giant Ericsson have today agreed to expand their existing relationship by deploying the firm’s latest 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) hardware, software and...
View ArticleUK Mobile Firms Remove Data Charges on Sites Supporting Victims of Crime
The UK Government has today reached an agreement with Vodafone, Three UK, Tesco Mobile, Virgin Media (Virgin Mobile), O2, EE (BT), Sky Mobile and giffgaff to remove mobile data (mobile broadband)...
View ArticleO2 Expands 5G Mobile to 60 UK Sites and LTE-M to 10,000 Sites
Mobile operator O2 has today announced that their new ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband network is now live across parts of 60 UK towns and cities (up from 20 at the start of 2020), which puts them...
View ArticleO2 UK Extends 4G Mobile to 91,000 Extra Postcodes in 2020
Mobile operator O2 has announced that they now have 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in over 18,000 regional UK towns, villages and hamlets (many of them rural), which follows a service upgrade across...
View ArticleVodafone Say 5G to Boost UK Economy by £158bn Over 10 Years
Vodafone has published a new report from WPI Economics, which perhaps predictably forecasts that the cumulative gains of UK businesses moving from 4G to 5G (mobile broadband) could produce an economic...
View ArticleVodafone UK Deploys Improved Standalone 5G Mobile Tech
Mobile operator Vodafone today claims to have become “the first UK operator” to showcase the next evolution of gigabit-capable 5G (mobile broadband) technology – “Standalone 5G” (SA), which includes...
View ArticleKN Circet Acquires ARCC – Expands into UK Wireless Networks
Telecommunications network services provider KN Circet, which is part of the Circet Group and operates across the UK and Ireland (clients include Openreach, Vodafone, Virgin Media, BT, Zayo and many...
View ArticleBT and Vodafone Seek 5-7 Years to Pull Huawei or Risk Blackouts
Senior broadband and mobile figures from UK telecoms giants BT and Vodafone have today warned cross-party MPs on the Science and Technology Committee that they’d need at least 5-7 years to fully remove...
View ArticleNO Huawei – UK Gov BANs New 5G Mobile Kit from Dec 2020 UPDATED
The UK Government has today confirmed a dramatic U-turn, which means that new core and non-core 5G kit from Chinese tech giant Huawei will be banned from use in mobile networks from 31st December 2020....
View ArticleThree UK Targets Delayed eSIM Support for September 2020
Mobile operator Three UK still appears to be slowly dragging its feet over the proposed addition of eSIM support to their 4G and 5G network, which is despite last December pledging to launch customer...
View ArticleChannel Islands Align with UK Gov’s Anti-Huawei 5G Approach
The Government of Jersey (English Channel Island) has signalled that it intends to “align” its approach to the deployment of 5G mobile technology with that of the UK, which effectively means banning...
View ArticleVodafone UK Mobile Adds Amazon Prime and YouTube Premium
Customers of Vodafone’s 4G and 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) services may like to know that the operator has just added content from Amazon Prime and YouTube Premium to their service, which means...
View ArticleLords Told UK Farmers Have to Visit McDonald’s for Broadband
Yesterday’s debate on the forthcoming Agriculture Bill 2019-21 saw the House of Lords being told, by non-affiliated life peer Lord Holmes of Richmond, that some of the farmers he knows have such poor...
View ArticleBig UK Rule Changes to Boost Gigabit Broadband and 5G Rollout
The UK Government has today confirmed a series of changes to both the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) and Mobile infrastructure planning, which when taken together are intended to help boost the...
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