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EE Tops Tutela’s Q3 2021 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks UPDATE
Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Tutela has published their latest Q3 2021 study of mobile broadband (4G and 5G) performance across the United Kingdom, which found that EE “dominated the majority of the...
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H2 2021 Test of 5G Speed in Coventry, Leeds and Bradford, Nottingham and...
Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics has today published the first H2 2021 results from their testing of 5G (mobile broadband) networks in the UK cities and towns of Coventry, Leeds and Bradford,...
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Samsung to Trial 4G and 5G Mobile in the UK via Virgin Media O2
Technology giant Samsung has today revealed that UK mobile operator O2 (VMO2) will shortly become one of the first providers in the country to conduct a commercial trial of their latest 5G Massive MIMO...
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City of Sunderland to Build Private Small Cell 5G Mobile Network
The UK Sunderland City Council (SCC) has today announced that they’ve awarded a 20-year strategic partnership to BAI Communications, which among other things is to be tasked with designing, building...
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EE UK Starts Switching-on 5G Mobile via the 700MHz Band
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today begun to rollout the new 700MHz band across their UK ultrafast 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network. As part of this, they’re switching on “indoor 5G” at more...
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ISP BT and OneWeb UK Sign Satellite Broadband Distribution Deal
UK ISP BT and satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government, have today officially signed a Distribution Partner Agreement that could result in faster low-latency backhaul and...
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ASDA Mobile UK Boosts Entry Level SIM Only Data Allowances
The mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA, which is powered by a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with Vodafone, has this week “permanently boosted” the data (mobile broadband)...
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Consultation on New Tools to Help Telecoms Negotiations in Scotland
The Infralink programme, which is supported by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) and the Scotland 5G Centre, has today invited views and opinions from landlords, the mobile phone sector and their...
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BT Group’s UK FTTP Broadband Cover Hits 5.8 Million Premises
The BT Group has published their Q2 2021/22 results, which reports that their consumer ISP division now has a total of 945,000 broadband customers on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (up from...
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Ofcom UK Expands the Range of Indoor Mobile Signal Boosters
Ofcom has today confirmed that they will next year introduce new changes to help expand the range of licence exempt “mobile phone repeaters” for UK consumers to adopt, which can be used in locations...
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Dorset Project Demos Satellite Backhaul from a 5G Standalone Network
The 5G RuralDorset project, which is testing various 5G based mobile voice and broadband technologies alongside existing fibre cables, claims to have achieved a “world-first” by demonstrating satellite...
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ISP Baltic Broadband Introduce Baltic Backpack to Fix Connectivity
Business ISP Baltic Broadband, which typically offers a mix of fixed wireless and full fibre broadband to firms in the Liverpool area, has introduced an unusual new product called the ‘Baltic Backpack‘...
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UK Government Launch Bid for Seat on the UN Telecoms Council
The UK Government will today launch its election manifesto as part of efforts to secure a seat on the governing council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which will give it more of a...
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The EU Publishes 2021 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study
After a long delay due to COVID-19, the European Commission has today published their annual 2021 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which reveals how the EU’s fixed line broadband ISP and...
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O2 UK to Start Roll Out of SMS for WiFi Calling by End of 2021
Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that, after a long wait, they intend to finally start rolling out SMS (text messaging) support for Wi-Fi Calling “before the end of the year“,...
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Next UK Infrastructure Assessment to Focus on Gigabit Broadband Takeup
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has today revealed the topics that will sit at the heart of their next (second) major assessment of the UK’s long-term infrastructure priorities, to be...
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Vodafone UK Grows to 962k Fixed Broadband ISP Customers
ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today published their latest quarterly results (financial Q2 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +22,000 customers (vs +29k in the...
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Vodafone UK Launch New 5G TCL HH500V GigaCube Router
New customers of Vodafone‘s ultrafast 5G mobile based broadband packages may be interested to know that they’ve just introduced a new router to the bundle, which is named as the TCL HH500V GigaCube. In...
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EE UK Customers Offered XBox Consoles and Game Pass Ultimate
Mobile operator EE UK has today announced that Pay Monthly Mobile customers of their service can now take a Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with “unlimited gaming data” from £21 a month (£31 with the...
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VOXI Offers UK 5G Mobile Plans with Refurbished Smartphones
Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is the virtual operator sibling of Vodafone UK, has today begun offering customers the option of buying a cheaper “refurbished” smartphone alongside bundles...
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