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BT Makes Nokia its Largest UK 5G Mobile Equipment Supplier
Broadband and mobile giant BT (EE) has today announced a new deal that, as part of their on-going work to phase-out Huawei, will turn Finnish telecoms firm Nokia into their “largest infrastructure...
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Spend on UK Home Telecoms Services Falls as Broadband Speeds Rise
Ofcom has today published their annual 2020 Communications Market Report (CMR), which reveals the latest information about the take-up, revenue and impact of fixed line broadband, phone, mobile, TV and...
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5G Rollout Delays May Cost UK £41bn in Lost Economic Output
A new report from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think-tank, which was penned by former Government advisers Alex Jackman and Nick King, has claimed that the UK’s recovery from the COVID-19...
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Three UK Scraps Go Binge for Unlimited 4G and 5G Streaming UPDATE
Mobile operator Three UK has suddenly decided to remove their popular “Go Binge” service from new 4G and 5G based mobile plans, which previously gave customers access to unlimited data (mobile...
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Mobile Operator Three UK Allegedly Ponders Sale of 5G Masts
Mobile operator Three UK is reportedly considering whether or not to sell some of its key assets, such as their mobile masts, in order to cash-in on rising valuations for the latest generation of...
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Three UK Signs Fibre Optic Network Capacity Deal with Colt
Mobile operator Three UK has today signed another fibre optic capacity deal, this time with Colt Technology Services, in order to help fuel their latest 5G and existing 4G based (mobile broadband)...
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Magdalene Tapped to Help Three UK Deploy its 5G Network
Infrastructure firm Magdalene (M Group Services) has secured another contract with Mobile Broadband Network Ltd, which will see them support Three UK’s new 5G focused Unilateral Street Works Build...
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EE Put Ultrafast 5G Network Live in 12 New UK Towns and Cities
Mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning announced that their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network has just started to go live in the busiest parts of a further 12 towns and cities across the...
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Local Government Association Offers Digital Connectivity Grants
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents hundreds of councils from across England and Wales, has started offering some seemingly small grants to help local authorities plan for and...
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Audit Office Casts Doubt on UK 2025 Gigabit Broadband Target UPDATE
A new report from the National Audit Office, which examines the original £1.9bn Superfast Broadband Programme (SFBB), has warned that the Government may struggle to achieve its ambition of bringing...
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O2 Reveals Top UK Cities with Highest Mobile Data Consumption
Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has revealed a list of the top 10 most data hungry (mobile broadband) UK cities for September 2020, which sees Bradford top the list after it saw data consumption on...
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Giffgaff UK Launch 5G Unlimited Data Golden Goodybag Plan
Mobile operator giffgaff has this week finally jumped on both the “unlimited data” (mobile broadband) and 5G bandwagon with the launch of their new £35 “golden goodybag” plan, which is not to be...
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Ookla Q3 2020 Study Shows Fastest Big UK Broadband ISPs and Cities
Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has this week published their latest Q3 2020 study of UK fixed broadband and mobile data speeds across the market’s largest providers, which perhaps...
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O2 Extends Ultrafast 5G Mobile Network to 108 UK Locations
Mobile operator O2 has today announced that their new ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband network has been extended to cover a total of 108 UK towns and cities (up from 60 in June 2020), which puts...
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SaT5G Integrates Commercial 5G Mobile and Live Satellite Network
The Satellite and Terrestrial Network for 5G (SaT5G) project, supported by various UK telecoms operators like BT, Avanti and €8.3m of EU funding, has for the first time successfully managed to...
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Survey Identifies the Top 5G Mobile Myths Among UK People
A new Censuswide survey of 2,006 UK adults, which was conducted during August 2020, has helped to reveal roughly what proportion of people believe various different myths and falsehoods about the...
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RootMetrics Tests 5G Mobile Speeds for Cloud Gaming in London
RootMetrics has today published a new study of 5G based mobile broadband speeds and latency, which compares the network and coverage from EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 in order to determine which...
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BT to Build UK’s First 5G Private Network in Belfast Harbour
BT has today announced that they will build and manage one of the UK’s “first” live 5G Private Network (5GPN) across Belfast Harbour in Northern Ireland, which will deliver a secure and ultrafast...
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BT and EE Pick Ericsson to Supply 5G Mobile in Major UK Cities
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today unsurprisingly chosen Ericsson to be their new supplier for ultrafast 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) deployments across major UK cities, such as London, Edinburgh,...
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BT Group Sees FTTP Broadband Reach 3.5 Million UK Premises
The BT Group has today published their Q2 2020/21 results, which saw Openreach expand their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 3.5 million UK premises (up from...
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