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Opensignal Compares Global Impact of 5G on Mobile Data Speeds
A new study from crowdsourced mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has examined how mobile broadband download speeds have changed, across 100 countries, since 5G networks were introduced. For example,...
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Sutton to Boost Mobile Coverage with New Open Access Deals
Residents, visitors and businesses in the South London Borough of Sutton (England) could soon see an improvement in the area’s 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage after the Sutton Council...
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CityFibre’s Full Fibre Network to Fuel Sunderland’s 5G Small Cells
The Sunderland City Council (SCC) and BAI Communications have today chosen CityFibre’s new “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network in the city to provide data capacity for a new 5G small cell...
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Virgin Media O2 to Cover 23 Million UK Premises with FTTP Broadband UPDATE
Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their combined results for Q4 2021, which finally confirmed their long-awaited plan to extend the operator’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband...
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Gov Consult on Legal Measures to Ban Huawei from UK FTTP and 5G Mobile
The Government has today launched a new consultation, which sets out their proposed legal instruments to control the use of Huawei’s telecoms equipment in UK networks. The move reflects both their BAN...
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Sky Mobile Moves to Protect UK Customers from SIM Swap Fraud
Sky (Sky Broadband) has today announced that they’re implementing JT‘s Fraud Protection Services (FPS) on their Sky Mobile service, which will introduce additional security measures to help protect...
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Ofcom UK Propose Upper 6GHz Band for Shared Access Licences
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to make the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425-7070MHz) available to Shared Access Licences for low-power, indoor use. But the move raises...
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World’s First as UK Firm Links 5G Broadband via the Stratosphere
Cambridge-based company Stratospheric Platforms has announced the “world’s first” 5G (mobile broadband) transmission from Earth’s stratosphere, which at 45,000ft managed to maintain the signal for 5...
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EE Deploys 200 Small Cells to Boost Urban UK 4G and 5G Cover
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve deployed 200 units of a new type of small cell (tiny base stations) on UK street furniture and buildings in order to boost the coverage and...
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New Rules and Taller Masts to Boost 5G Mobile in Rural England
The Government has today confirmed their intention to introduce a series of changes to Permitted Development (PD) rights for mobile infrastructure, which aims to help extend 5G and 4G (mobile...
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Vodafone UK Name 7 New Rural Towns for OpenRAN 4G Network
Mobile operator Vodafone has today named some of the first rural towns in the UK to benefit from their planned rollout of 4G and 5G OpenRAN (O-RAN) technology, which is set to reach a total of 2,500...
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Three UK Preparing to Launch Apple Watch and eSIM in Q2 2022
Mobile operator Three UK has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that, after years of waiting and more than a few false starts (here), they will finally aim to launch eSIM support for 4G and 5G devices during...
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Vodafone UK Trial Creates First On-Demand 5G Network Slice
Mobile operator Vodafone and their strategic supplier Ericsson have today announced having created the UK’s “first on-demand 5G network slice” in a successful lab trial, which could pave the way for...
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Mobile Broadband Speeds on Different iPhone Models Compared
New data from crowdsourced mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has compared how the 4G and 5G based UK mobile broadband download and upload speeds compared across Apple’s various iPhone generations (up...
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Three UK Sees Average Mobile Data Usage Per User Hit 19GB
Mobile operator Three UK has today revealed that the average 4G and 5G data usage (mobile broadband), per customer, per month on their network jumped to 19GB (GigaBytes) in Dec 2021, which is up from...
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XtndNet Launch Hybrid ADSL, Mobile and Satellite Broadband for UK Rural Areas
A new provider called XtndNet claims to have launched a new ISP network for serving “forgotten broadband customers” in remote rural parts of the UK, which adopts a “hybrid” approach that combines...
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New Body Setup to Support UK Broadband and Mobile Research
The Government has today announced the proposed launch of a new body called the ‘UK Telecoms Innovation Network‘ (UKTIN), which will help to guide mobile network operators and broadband ISPs that seek...
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Virgin Media O2 Update on 4G and Broadband Progress in Wales
The two sides of VMO2 – O2 and Virgin Media – have today issued somewhat of a progress update on their various fixed broadband and mobile deployments across Wales, which among others things reveals...
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Virgin Media O2 Boosts UK 5G Rollout with VMware Technology
Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve chosen cloud-provider VMware to help modernise their network and enable the continued progress of its 5G (mobile broadband) rollout across the...
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Broadband ISP Quickline to Upgrade UK Wireless Links to 10Gbps
UK ISP Quickline, which operates a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has revealed that they plan to...
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