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Google Scraps Project Loon – 4G Rural Broadband via Balloon
Maybe it was just a lot of hot air but Google (Alphabet) has announced that Loon, their long-running project that aimed to deploy mobile broadband (4G / 5G) connectivity from High Altitude Platforms...
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Virgin Media’s 5G Mobile Goes Live via Vodafone UK UPDATED
The mobile division of cable broadband, TV and phone provider Virgin Media – Virgin Mobile – appears to have started the live launch of their new ultrafast 5G based data services, albeit initially only...
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Ofcom UK Delays Start of 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz 5G Auction
The UK telecoms regulator has today confirmed that the new COVID-19 lockdown will delay the start of their auction for the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands, which was previously due to start...
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O2, Three UK and Vodafone to Share 222 Rural 4G Mobile Masts
The £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) industry project made progress today after mobile operators O2, Three UK and Vodafone reached a related agreement to both build and share 222 new 4G mobile masts,...
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Gov Consults on New ECC Changes to Aid UK Broadband Rollout
The UK Government has launched a consultation on a series of proposed changes to the Electronic Communications Code (ECC), which aims to put right some of the problems caused by their last revision in...
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MPs Warn UK Gov’s 5G Diversification Strategy Lacks Clear Targets
The cross-party UK Science and Technology Committee has warned that the Government’s 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy, which aspires to ensure that mobile operators have a better choice of...
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Virgin Media’s Unlimited Mobile Data Plan Now Available to All
Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has quietly made an important little change to their top unlimited mobile data plan, which removes the requirement for those who take it out to be an existing...
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iD Mobile UK Signs New Agreement to Launch 5G Mobile Plans
Mobile operator iD Mobile (Dixons Carphone) has extended their existing Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with supplier Three UK and as part of that they will also gain access to the...
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O2 Study Predicts £187.7m 4G Boost for Rural UK Businesses
A new study commissioned by O2 UK has predicted that the first phase of the new £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project with Vodafone and Three UK, which will see all three mobile operators working to...
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Farmers See Small Improvements in UK Mobile and Broadband
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has published the results from their annual (2020) survey of 430 members, which found that just 20% of farmers had access to fixed “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+)...
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Sky Mobile UK Customers are Now Able to Share Out Spare Data
Sky (Sky Broadband) has this week added a temporary new feature to their 4G and 5G powered Sky Mobile plans, which enables customers with lots of spare data (mobile broadband) in their “Piggybank” to...
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Over a Third of UK Home Workers are Switching to Mobile Data
A new YouGov survey of 4,328 British adults, which was commissioned by mobile operator O2, has found that 36% of Brits currently working from home (1,351 of the respondents) are regularly switching to...
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nPerf Ranks EE Top in 2021 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks
French company nPerf has today published the results of their annual crowd-sourced data study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which finds that EE has unseated rival Vodafone from last...
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Infrastructure Commission Calls for Detailed Gigabit Rollout Plans
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has just published its Annual Monitoring Report 2021, which among other things calls on the UK Government to set out a “workable plan” for ensuring that the...
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GWS Names the Best Mobile Operators for 37 UK Cities in 2021
Global Wireless Solutions has today published the results of their annual (2021) study of mobile network (4G and 5G) performance (broadband speeds etc.) across 37 UK cities, which concludes that O2 is...
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Vodafone UK Extend Free Mobile Data to 150,000 More School Kids
Mobile operator Vodafone have today extended their offer of free Data SIMs (mobile broadband), which come packed with a 30GB (GigaByte) allowance – valid for 90 days, to help another 150,000 primary...
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Report Finds EE’s UK Mobile Network Still Best for 5G Broadband
A new study from mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics, which exclusively examined the latest network availability and mobile broadband speeds on 5G operators in the UK, has found the EE still...
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ASA Ban Three UK’s Best Network for Data Claim After EE Moan
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned several adverts for mobile operator Three UK after they all were found to have made the same “misleading” claim of offering the “Best Network for...
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Sky and Vodafone Air Competition Fears of Virgin Media and O2 Merger
Sky UK (Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband) and Vodafone have today published their responses to the Competition and Markets Authority‘s (CMA) on-going phase 2 investigation into the proposed £31bn merger...
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Vodafone UK Discounts Unlimited Mobile Broadband and Data Plans
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today introduced a range of discounts across their various data based Pay As You Go (PAYG) bundles, unlimited data plans and mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.) packages,...
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