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ISP Vodafone UK Grows Fixed Broadband to 793,000 Customers
Mobile and broadband ISP Vodafone UK have published their latest results to the end of June 2020 (financial Q1 FY21), which saw their fixed broadband base grow to total 793,000 customers (up by +42K in...
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Ofcom Adds 39GHz as Option for Supplying WiFi on UK Trains
Ofcom has today updated their advice to the UK Government on spectrum bands suitable for providing “trackside to train connectivity,” which adds the 39GHz band as a possible option. In the future this...
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BT Raise UK Ultrafast Broadband Cover to 5.81 Million Premises
BT has today published their Q1 2020/21 results, which reveals that Openreach has expanded their “ultrafast broadband” ISP network to cover 5.81 million UK premises (up from 5.4m last quarter) and that...
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BT Launch HALO for Biz Broadband and an SME Support Scheme
UK ISP BT Business has today extended the availability of their converged HALO packages to include small business customers, which combines their “fibre broadband“, 4G unlimited mobile and digital...
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Government Names UK 5G Create Pilots for £30m Investment
At the start of this year the UK Government unveiled a £30m package to support an open competition (here), which aimed to look at how ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) could create “new...
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Ofcom UK Aim Next 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction at January 2021
The UK telecoms regulator has today confirmed that their much delayed auction of the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands, which could boost new 5G mobile network coverage and mobile broadband...
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Vodafone Switches-on First Live UK OpenRAN Site and Tests uCPE
Vodafone has just become the first UK mobile operator to switch-on a live 4G Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) site, which could help to cut the cost of building new networks by standardising the...
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O2 Predict 5G to Save UK up to 269 Megatonnes of CO2 by 2035
Mobile operator O2 has kicked the 5G mobile hype train into high gear again, this time by predicting that the new mobile broadband tech could work alongside connected technologies, such as smart grids...
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Community Built 5G Mobile Broadband Goes Live in Chalke Valley
At present many homes in the Chalke Valley (Wiltshire, England) suffer from slow fixed broadband speeds and extremely weak mobile signals, but a new Government funded community project – Ch4lke Mobile...
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Mobile Operators Call on UK to Speed-up Planning Changes
The Mobile UK trade body, which represents Three UK, Vodafone, O2 and EE (BT), has called on the Government to accelerate their softening of mobile planning laws, which comes after a new survey found...
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5G Conspiracy Theorists Hire Lawyer to Sue UK Gov Over Health Fears
The Action Against 5G mobile group, which holds to a widely debunked conspiracy theory that “radio-frequency radiation from masts and wireless devices puts health and life at risk“, has crowd-funded...
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Three UK and EE Protect 5G Mobile Masts with SmartWater
The Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL) organisation, which runs the joint network sharing venture between mobile operators EE (BT) and Three UK, has moved to protect 4G and 5G based mobile masts...
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Ofcom Finish Clearing 700MHz TV Band for UK Mobile Broadband
After several years of difficult work Ofcom has this week officially completed one of their “biggest” ever UK projects, which involved moving Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) channels out of the...
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Comparison of UK 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds vs 11 Countries
Crowd-sourced analyst firm Opensignal has today published new benchmarks of 5G based mobile broadband networks across 12 countries, which finds that the United Kingdom returns reasonable average...
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Government MPs Urge UK Councils to Support Gigabit Broadband
The UK Government has today called on local authorities to help support the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP, DOCSIS 3.1) and 5G mobile networks by, among other things, implementing new...
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Survey Finds UK Mobile Operators Slow to Tackle Overpayments
A new survey of 4,006 UK adults, which was conducted by consumer magazine Which? in July 2020, has found that 36% of mobile customers whose bundled airtime contracts (handset and mobile tariff) have...
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Three UK Launch 5G Unlimited Broadband and Apple TV Bundle
Mobile network operator Three UK has partnered with Apple to create a new bundle, which combines their 4G and 5G based unlimited use Home Broadband service with an Apple 4K TV device that also includes...
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EE UK Launch New 5G Business Plans for Both Work and Play
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched a new range of 5G ready business plans for small businesses, which among other things includes access to new entertainment services “as the traditional lines...
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Frustration as Virgin Media UK Issue Invalid Mobile SIMs Again
Some of broadband ISP Virgin Media’s UK mobile customers are complaining after they were suddenly issued with a replacement SIM card that doesn’t work in their handsets, instead resulting in a “SIM not...
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Three UK Extend Full Fibre Deal with Cityfibre to Fuel 5G Mobile
Mobile operator Three UK has extended their existing “full fibre” network capacity (backhaul) deal with Cityfibre via a new multi-million-pound contract, which will help to connect an additional 1,300...
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