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Vodafone Hits 1.05 Million UK Fixed Broadband ISP Customers
Vodafone UK has today published their latest results (financial Q4 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base has finally passed the million mark to total 1,050,000 (up by +59k in the quarter...
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BT Trials Quantum Radios to Boost Future UK 5G Mobile Cover
Telecoms giant BT (EE) has begun to trial a new “hyper-sensitive quantum antenna technology using excited atomic states,” which represents a new way of detecting radio waves that could find much weaker...
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Ofcom Spring 2022 Study – Gigabit Broadband Covers 66 Percent of UK
Ofcom’s latest Spring 2022 report into fixed broadband and mobile coverage has revealed that “full fibre” (FTTP) now reaches 33% of the UK (up from 28% in Sept 2021), while 19.3 million homes (66%) are...
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Ofcom UK to Let O2 and Vodafone Use Existing Bands for 5G
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, have today proposed to update certain licences held by mobile operators Vodafone and O2 (VMO2) – including for the 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2100MHz and 2.6GHz bands. The move...
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Freshwave to Deliver 5G Cover in City of London by End of 2022
The City of London (CoL) is already home to a small cell based Wi-Fi and 4G network that claims to offer broadband speeds of up to 200Mbps across the Square Mile, but now Freshwave has been chosen to...
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Three UK Claims 5G Population Cover of 54 Percent – Beats EE
Mobile operator Three UK this morning claims to have overtaken arch rival EE (BT) for population coverage of their new ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) network, which they say can now reach 54%...
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RootMetrics Study Finds Improvement in UK Mobile Call Quality
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which is owned by Ookla (here), has today published the results from their new research into UK mobile calling (voice) performance and trends, which claims that...
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Virgin Media O2 Launch New UK Sustainability Strategy
Broadband ISP and mobile operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) has today published their new Better Connections Plan, which sets out how their will help to improve the environment and reduce waste...
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SMARTY Mobile Offers 100GB SIM-Only 5G Plan for 12 Pounds
Mobile operator Smarty, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s platform, has recently launched a discount that offers their new SIM-Only plan with 100GB data (mobile...
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Three UK Reports an All-Time Mobile Traffic High of 1068 Gbps
Mobile operator Three UK has reported seeing a “record-breaking weekend” of data traffic (mobile broadband) peaks. This included a Saturday evening high on the back of the Champions League final and...
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Greggs and Virgin Media O2 UK Gift Free Mobile Data to Families
British bakery chain Greggs has teamed-up with O2 (VMO2) to trial a new scheme, which aims to help more than 255,000 people get connected by the end of 2023 – partly by supplying 15GB of “free mobile...
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Telecoms Industry Sees 7 Percent Increase in UK Digging Work
The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has published its annual Digging Up...
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Virgin Media O2 Mobile and Broadband Users Gobbled 39bn GigaBytes of Data
Customers of both Virgin Media and O2’s (VMO2) UK mobile and fixed broadband ISP networks have, since 1st June 2021 (the date their merger completed), used a total of 39 billion GigaBytes (GB) of data...
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Birmingham Scientists Create New 5G Beam Steering Antenna
A team from the University of Birmingham‘s School of Engineering in England has developed a new beam-steering antenna for future 5G and 6G mobile (mobile broadband) networks, which claims to have...
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SMARTY Mobile UK Launch New 4G and 5G Data Only SIMs
Mobile operator Smarty has today launched a new range of data-only (mobile broadband) SIMs, which are designed to help you “stay connected on the move” by offering 2GB (GigaBytes) of data for £5, 15GB...
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Government Unveil UK Digital Strategy – Talks 99% Gigabit Coverage
The UK Government has published their ‘Digital Strategy’, which reflects a “new plan” to grow the “digital economy” (i.e. addressing tech sector skills, investment and infrastructure). But in terms of...
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Vodafone Deploys First Live Self-Powering UK 4G Mobile Mast
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today switched on what they claim is the country’s first wind and solar-powered 4G mobile phone masts, which went live as part of a new trial in rural Pembrokeshire...
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ISP Quickline Boosts Network with Proximity Data Centre Deal
Broadband ISP Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has signed a deal to boost their...
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Three UK eSIM and Apple Watch Support Appears to Go LIVE
After years of waiting and a few false starts, customers of mobile operator Three UK are this week reporting that they’ve finally been able to connect their Apple Watches to the operator via a new eSIM...
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UK5G Survey Finds UK Businesses are Prepared for 5G Mobile
A new survey of UK businesses, which was commissioned by UK5G – the national innovation network dedicated to accelerating the adoption of 5G in the UK, has claimed that the vast majority of UK...
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