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PAC Criticises UK Gov for Slow Rural Gigabit Broadband Progress
The Public Accounts Committee has today issued a new report on the progress being made by the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit rural broadband rollout programme, which questions whether it will...
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Vodafone Switches On UK’s First Scaled 5G Mobile OpenRAN Site
Mobile operator Vodafone, which last year announced plans to rollout OpenRAN (O-RAN) across around 2,600 sites in rural parts of Wales and South West England by 2027 (here), has today switched-on the...
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RootMetrics Benchmarks the Best UK Mobile Networks in H2 2021
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was recently gobbled by Ookla (here), has today published their latest H2 2021 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United...
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Report Recommends Changes to Boost UK 5G and Gigabit Broadband
A new report produced by property consultants Cluttons and polling firm YouGov, which surveyed 103 UK MPs, 577 councillors, 101 IT decision markets and 1,996 citizens, has highlighted various problems...
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Vodafone UK Reveals Plan to Switch-Off 3G Network from 2023
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they will begin to retire their “legacy” 3G network from 2023 onwards. The gradual phase-out will enable them to repurpose the related radio...
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BT Begin OpenRAN Trial in Hull UK to Boost Mobile Broadband
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve joined with existing network supplier Nokia to conduct one of their first UK trials of Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) technology in the...
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UK SPF Calls for Changes to Improve Spectrum Sharing for 5G
The UK Spectrum Policy Forum, which acts as an industry sounding board for policymakers, has published a new report on how spectrum sharing could be improved to help provide innovative 5G mobile...
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Nokia Achieve New 5G Mobile Broadband Speed Record of 3Gbps
A joint trial conducted by Nokia, China Mobile (CMCC) and MediaTek has successfully achieved a new Standalone 5G (SA) download speed record of 2.94Gbps (Gigabits per second), which isn’t as fast as...
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Mobile Operator Truphone Signs UK MVNO Deal with BT for EE UPDATE
Global-focused mobile operator Truphone, which is based in London, has today signed a new 5-year agreement with BTWholesale to use their Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) services, which will...
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Vodafone UK Nears 1 Million Fixed Broadband ISP Customers
UK ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today published their latest results (financial Q3 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +29k customers (vs +22k in the previous...
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Gov Levelling Up Plan Confirms Nationwide Gigabit Broadband for 2030
The government will today publish their “flagship” Levelling Up White Paper, which sets out their “plan to transform the UK by spreading opportunity and prosperity to all parts of it” and also confirms...
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BT Results – FTTP Hits 6.4 Million UK Premises as TV Joint Venture Unveiled
The BT Group has published their Q3 2021/22 results, which saw Openreach expand the coverage of gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband to 6.44 million UK premises (up by +662K vs +615K in Q2)...
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EE UK Customers Hit by Huge USA Roaming Bills and Suspensions UPDATE
Some of EE’s UK mobile customers, specifically those who are currently roaming in the USA or Canada, have complained of being hit by massive data (mobile broadband) bills – some rising into the...
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Gov Names Winners of New Pilots to Aid 5G via Street Furniture UPDATE
The UK Government has today awarded £4m to support 8 new 2-year long pilots under the Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) project, which will test ways of making it easier for...
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Vodafone UK Updates on Changes to Roaming and Basics Plans UPDATE
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has informed us of some changes they’ve made to their SIM-Only “Basics” plans from 6th and 9th February 2022, which relates to the introduction of new roaming options...
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Study of 5G Broadband Speeds and Availability in 16 UK Cities
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published a new H2 2021 summary of 5G based mobile broadband performance and availability across the United Kingdom, which reveals how each of the...
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Ofcom Sets Initial Views on Future of UK Mobile and Spectrum
The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published two new discussion papers that set out their “initial thinking” on how UK mobile markets might develop and how networks may need to evolve to meet...
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Quickline Claim UK First with Launch of 5G Standalone Broadband
Broadband ISP Quickline has today claimed to be the “first” company in the UK to offer Standalone 5G (SA) technology, which will be used to bring superfast and ultrafast broadband speeds to rural...
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Virgin Media O2 Aims to Reach 50 Percent of UK with 5G in 2023
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media / VMO2) has today pledged to extend their ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) network coverage to reach 50% of the UK’s population in 2023 (not to be confused with...
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Three UK Launch New 5G Hub for Unlimited Home Broadband
New customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those taking their 5G based unlimited Home Broadband packages (priced from £21 per month), are now being supplied with a new hub (router) from...
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