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UK Government Seeks Seat at the UN Telecoms Agency’s Council
The UK Government has today announced that it will run for election to the governing council of the United Nations (UN) telecoms agency – the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) – in order to...
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EE and BT Celebrate England’s Euro 2020 Final with FREE Data
Customers of mobile operator EE and BT (BTMobile) may be pleased to learn that data usage (mobile broadband) on their network will become free (“zero rated“) from 6pm to midnight on Sunday 11th July...
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Virgin Media O2 See UK Internet Traffic Dip for Euro 2020 Final
Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) reported a sharp decrease in internet traffic during England’s Euro 2020 football final against Italy on Sunday, with customers downloading 28% less than at the...
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Disputes Over Rents Continue to Delay UK Rollout of 5G Mobile
The ongoing UK rollout of ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) networks by EE (BT), Three UK, Vodafone and O2 (VMO2) is reportedly still being slowed by landowners of existing mast sites, many of...
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EE and BT Aim to Offer 5G Mobile Anywhere in the UK by 2028
Mobile operator EE and broadband ISP giant BT have today pledged to offer ultrafast 5G mobile solutions “across the entire UK” by 2028 and to “fuse” their mobile, Wi-Fi and fibre broadband...
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Competition Concerns Raised Over Three UK Mast Sale to Cellnex
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today raised “competition concerns” over the planned £8.6bn (€10 billion) sale of CK Hutchison Holdings (Three UK) interests in European tower assets...
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Virgin Media O2 Make Live UK Calls Over New Indoor Mobile Tech
O2 (VMO2) has just become the first UK mobile operator to make live calls from its network using a new Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) mobile specification, which makes it possible for multiple...
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M Group Services Acquires UK Infrastructure Firm Waldon Telecom
Infrastructure firm M Group Services, which serves the United Kingdom and Ireland via its various broadband and mobile focused civil engineering brands (e.g. Avonline Networks, magdalene, Morrison...
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VOXI Offers All UK Customers 5G Mobile At No Extra Cost
Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is an MVNO (virtual operator) sibling of Vodafone UK, has today announced that all new and existing customers will be offered the next generation of...
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Virgin Mobile UK Moves to Scrap Pay As You Go Packages UPDATE
Customers of Virgin Mobile’s (Virgin Media) Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans have been informed that the service is “ending” and it will be gradually phased out between October 2021 and January 2022. During...
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Ofcom Sets Out UK Spectrum Strategy for the Next 10 Years
Ofcom UK has today set out their future spectrum management strategy for the next ten years, which among other things aims to boost support for localised spectrum access (e.g. creating local wireless...
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Virgin Media O2 UK Tests 5G with Satellite Broadband Backup
Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has begun testing a new “ubiquitous communications” technology in Cornwall (South West England), which has the capability to instantly switch between 5G mobile and satellite...
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Vodafone and Nokia Build System to Detect Network Problems
Mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’re rolling out a new machine learning (ML) algorithm across their UK and pan-European mobile network(s), which has been designed with support from...
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ASA Ban Three UK TV Ads for Misleading UK’s Fastest 5G Claim
A complaint raised by rival mobile operator Vodafone has today resulted in the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning two TV adverts for Three UK, one of which “misleadingly” claimed to offer...
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O2 UK Claims Strong Mobile Signal Adds GBP10k to House Value
A new YouGov survey of 2,130 UK adults, which was commissioned by O2 (VMO2), has claimed that 70% of house-hunters would be prepared to walk away from a dream home if the local mobile signal wasn’t up...
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Vodafone UK Reaches 940,000 Fixed Broadband ISP Customers
The latest quarterly results (financial Q1 FY22) from UK ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today been published, which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +29,000 customers (vs...
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Three UK Seek Policy Reform to Connect Rural Areas via 5G WiFi
Mobile operator Three UK, supported by research from CCS Insight, has today called on the Government not to overlook the benefits of “5G WiFi” in their plan to rollout gigabit-capable broadband across...
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Virgin Media O2 Continue with Ericsson for Standalone 5G Core
Mobile operator O2 UK (VMO2) has today, perhaps unsurprisingly, announced that their existing relationship with supplier Ericsson will be extended to include deployment of their “cloud native,...
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Telecoms Industry Sees 24 Percent Increase in UK Digging Work
The annual Digging Up Britain 2021 report from LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig), which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has...
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ASA Bans Vodafone Ads for Misleading UK’s Best Network Claim
A complaint by rival mobile operator EE (BT) has prompted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban several of Vodafone’s adverts after they “misleadingly” claimed to be the “UK’s Best Network”...
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