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Three UK Extend Ultrafast 5G Mobile to 193 UK Towns and Cities
Mobile operator Three UK has today revealed that their 5G based (mobile broadband) network is now live across busy parts of some 193 UK towns and cities (equating to 1,250 cell sites and masts). On top...
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New UK Infrastructure Bank May Boost Gigabit Broadband and 5G
The HM Treasury has announced that its plan to setup a new UK Infrastructure Bank, which was first proposed in last year’s Spending Review, will be supported by an initial £12bn in capital investment...
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Vodafone UK Donates 10,000 Mobile Broadband Dongles to Kids
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that they will donate 10,000 “dongle devices” (i.e. mobile broadband modems) to help thousands more children and young people connect to remote learning and...
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Budget 2021 Offers Nothing New for UK Gigabit Broadband Projects
The UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak MP, has today published his Budget 2021 statement and sadly there were no new details for the £5bn UK Gigabit Broadband Programme. But we did get a few extra details on...
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DCMS Committee Demands Answers on UK Gigabit Broadband Target UPDATE
The Chair of the cross-party DCMS Select Committee, Julian Knight, has criticised the UK Government for having “failed to answer” a key question in their recent report, which called for a detailed plan...
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New Toolkit to Aid Scotland’s Rollout of 5G Mobile Broadband
The Infralink programme, which is funded by The Scotland 5G Centre (i.e. it’s one of their key Wave 1 projects), has today launched a “game-changing” initiative that will pave the way for greater 4G...
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Survey Claims 54% of UK Mobile Users Suffer Signal Woes at Home
A new Opinium based survey from Uswitch.com, which questioned a “nationally representative” sample of 2,000 UK adults during February 2021, has found that 54.4% of respondents (equivalent to 29.5...
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Ofcom to Start UK 5G Mobile Auction for 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that their auction of the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands will begin this Friday (12th March). The move should ultimately help to...
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Vodafone UK Launch Mobile Plans for Disadvantaged Communities
Mobile operator Vodafone, which previously offered 350,000 free mobile broadband SIMs (30GB allowance – valid for 90 days) to disadvantaged school children across the UK (here), has today launched a...
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Preliminary Winners of Ofcom’s UK 5G Mobile Auction Revealed
Ofcom has today revealed the winners from the “principal stage” of their latest 5G focused mobile (mobile broadband) spectrum auction for the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz bands, which saw operators spend a...
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Ofcom Unveils 2021 Changes to Boost UK Full Fibre Broadband UPDATE
Ofcom has today published the outcome of their Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review 2021-26 (FTMR), which sets out how various changes (Dark Fibre Access, copper retirement, regulation that varies by...
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Three UK Discounts Unlimited 4G and 5G Home Broadband Plans
Mobile operator Three UK today reports that they’ve “slashed” their 4G and 5G powered unlimited home broadband prices in order to help people who are stuck at home. Prices now start from as little as...
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Smarty UK Refresh 4G Mobile SIM Only Plans with More Data
Mobile operator Smarty has this week announced that they’ve refreshed their range of SIM-Only mobile plans by giving them all bigger data allowances (mobile broadband) and often for no extra cost. For...
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Welsh Government Publish New Digital Strategy for Wales
The Welsh Government (WG) has today published a new Digital Strategy for Wales, which among other things sets out how they will use the levers at their disposal to support the public sector, businesses...
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SIM Swap Causes Annoyance for UK ASDA Mobile Customers
Existing customers with the mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA have been told to request a new SIM card by the 15th September 2021, or risk being unable to use the service. The move follows a...
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Survey Claims UK Mobile Users Wasting 14GB of Data a Month
A new survey of 4,000 UK mobile phone users by consumer magazine Which? has claimed that consumers on SIM-Only plans and contracts are “wasting” an average of 14GB (GigaBytes) of mobile broadband data...
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A Week of Extremes as Virgin Media’s UK Internet Traffic Surges
Gigabit broadband ISP Virgin Media has reported a week of extreme variations in UK internet traffic, which saw both the lowest level of upstream traffic in 2021 occur on Tuesday and then, the very next...
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USB vs WiFi – Tethering 4G Broadband to a Laptop via Android Phones
A lot of UK people have tried tethering their Smartphone’s mobile broadband (4G, 5G) connection to a laptop by using the ‘Wi-Fi Hotspot‘ feature, but not everybody is aware that you can do the same...
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EE Adds 35 New UK Locations to their Ultrafast 5G Mobile Cover
Mobile operator EE (BT) has confirmed that a further 35 towns and cities across the United Kingdom have started to go live on their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network, which brings the total...
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Six Westminster Street Markets Get Free Gigabit Speed Wi-Fi
Six street markets in the London borough of Westminster, including Church Street and Berwick Street among others, claim to have deployed a new “superfast” public WiFi network to help local traders,...
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