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1pMobile UK Introduces Minimum Monthly Spend Requirement
Mobile operator 1pMobile have begun to inform their UK customers of a big change to their service that will see a new “minimum monthly spend” requirement of £2.50 being introduced from 1st October...
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VOXI Discounts UK Mobile Plans and Boost 4G and 5G Data Caps
Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is a virtual operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone UK, will later today introduce a new range of discounts across their plans and also boost the data allowances...
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Three UK Discounts Unlimited 4G Home Broadband to GBP14
Mobile operator Three UK has launched new discounts and devices across their range of 4G and 5G based unlimited Home Broadband packages, which now start at just £14 per month for 24-months of service...
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Another U Turn as Three UK Reintroduce EU Roaming Charges
Mobile operator Three UK, which last year said that they planned to “retain” EU roaming at no extra cost “regardless of Brexit negotiations“, has today followed the U-turns from rivals EE (BT) and...
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Gov Starts GBP4m Trial to Build 5G via More UK Street Furniture
The UK Government has today invested £4m to support a new 2-year project (DCIA) trial, which aims to make it easier for network operators to access and deploy 5G mobile (mobile broadband)...
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Vodafone UK Urges Gov to Deploy 5G and Other Digital Tech to Save Planet
Vodafone UK and WPI Economics have called on the government to help fix the climate by putting the rollout of 5G (mobile broadband), IoT and other digital connectivity at the core of its forthcoming...
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EE Starts UK Deployment of 5G Mobile via the 700MHz Band
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they will begin rolling out the new 700MHz band for use on their ultrafast 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network from October 2021. Redditch,...
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Ookla Publish Latest UK 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds for Q1-Q2 2021
Ookla, which runs Speedtest.net, has today revealed more data about 5G mobile speeds and availability across the UK. Overall, the country delivered average (median) 5G download speeds of 167.38Mbps...
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Mobile Operator Lycamobile UK to Invest GBP250m into Growth
UK-based Lycamobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with operations in several countries, has today announced that they’ll invest £250m over the next 3-years in order to “transform”...
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RootMetrics Name Top 13 UK Cities for 5G Speed and Availability
Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics has today published a general comparison of 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) speeds and availability across 13 of the United Kingdom’s key cities, which sees...
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Broadband Giant BT Bring UK Net Zero Target Forward to 2030
Telecoms giant BT (EE) has today announced that they’re bringing forward their target for achieving Net Zero by 15 years (i.e. removing as many carbon emissions as they produce), moving it from 2045 to...
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Uncertainly Grips Vacant Post of UK Digital Infrastructure Minister UPDATE
Last week’s cabinet reshuffle saw Matt Warman MP being somewhat unexpectedly sacked from the role of ‘Minister for Digital Infrastructure‘ within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport...
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Giffgaff UK Boost Mobile Data Allowances on Goodybag Plans
Mobile operator giffgaff has informed UK customers that they’re going to be boosting the data (mobile broadband) allowances across most of their 4G and ultrafast 5G based “golden goodybag” plans from...
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EE UK Tops Opensignal Q3 Mobile Benchmark, But Lose Grip in 5G
Opensignal’s latest Q3 2021 Mobile Network Experience Report, which uses crowd-sourced data to measure the 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) performance of all four primary operators (EE, Vodafone, O2 and...
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iD Mobile Sorry After Threatening to Disconnect UK Customers
Mobile operator iD Mobile (Dixons Carphone) has apologised to 24,000 of their UK customers after a billing fail resulted in them sending out an “outstanding balance notification in error,” which warned...
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Mobile Operator Three UK Delays eSIM Support AGAIN to 2022
First they launched it, then they “put a short pause” on the deployment and said it was just a trial, before adding that it would arrive in “early 2021“, which in January 2021 became “later this year”...
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O2 Begins UK Rollout of the 700MHz Band to Boost 5G Mobile
Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’ve started to deploy the newly released 700MHz spectrum band for use on their latest ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband)...
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BT and Vodafone UK Support Converged 5G and Fixed Broadband Project
The Broadband Forum has revealed that BT, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and others have given their support to help develop a new Open Broadband standard – WWC Reference Implementation for 5G-RG...
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Nokia Claims Solution to the Problem of mmWave 5G Broadband
Nokia claims to have moved closer to turning multi-gigabit speed capable 5G mmWave broadband for homes into a reality by developing a new type of “very high gain antenna” with a “360 Field of View,”...
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Gov Consults on UK’s Future Wireless Spectrum and 6G Needs
A new ‘Call for Evidence‘ is being launched by the Government today, which aims to inform their future Wireless Infrastructure Strategy (WIS). This attempts to understand the future wireless...
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