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Virgin Media O2 Donate Another 15 Million GigaBytes to National Databank
Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have agreed to supply a further 15 million GigaBytes (GB) of free data to the Good Things Foundation’s National Databank, which gifts free mobile...
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Government Offer £25m to Help Develop Future 6G UK Mobile Kit
The UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today set aside £25m as part of their new Future Open Networks Research Challenge (FONRC) fund to help support the...
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UK Ranks 59th in the World for the Price of 1GB Mobile Data
New research has analysed 5,292 mobile data (mobile broadband) plans from across 233 countries in order to compare the cost of a 1GB (GigaByte) data allowance, which found that the United Kingdom has...
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RootMetrics Benchmarks the Best UK Mobile Networks for H1 2022
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was last year acquired by Ookla (here), has today published their biannual H1 2022 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United...
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BT Results See Full Fibre Grow by Record of 763,000 UK Premises
The BT Group has published their Q1 2022/23 results to June 2022, which saw the coverage of Openreach’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network reach 7.957 million premises...
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Virgin Media O2 Add 114,000 New Premises to UK FTTP Coverage
Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have published their joint Q2 2022 results, which saw fixed broadband reach 5,612,000 customers (up by 16,000 in Q2 2022 vs -1K in Q1) and...
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Vodafone UK Donates 500,000 Free Mobile Data SIMs to Public
Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve reached the halfway point of their commitment to connect 1 million people, specifically those who are “experiencing digital...
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EE and BT Mobile UK Customers Gifted Free Data for Sunday
Customers of both EE’s and BT’s mobile UK service will be able to enjoy it a bit more on Sunday this weekend after the operators announced that they were zero-rating data (mobile broadband) across...
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ASDA Mobile UK Hike PAYG Prices and Limit Data for EU Roaming
The mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA has begun notifying customers of a huge price hike to their Pay As You Go (PAYG) services, while also revealing that they will slash the amount of...
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Quickline Become First UK ISP to Deliver Commercial 5G SA Open RAN Kit
Full fibre and wireless broadband provider Quickline has teamed up with Mavenir to, they claim, become the first ISP in the UK to commercially deliver a cloud-based 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access...
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Three UK Reports Average Data Usage Per Customer Hits 21GB
Mobile operator Three UK has today reported their latest financial results, which among other things revealed that the average 4G / 5G data usage (mobile broadband), per customer, per month on their...
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BT Successfully Aggregate Four 5G Bands in Standalone Network
Mobile and broadband provider BT (EE) and Nokia claim to have achieved somewhat of a “European first” by aggregate four channels of radio spectrum in a live 5G Standalone (SA) network. In theory, this...
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EU Publishes 2022 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study vs UK
The European Commission recently published their annual 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which charts how the EU’s fixed line broadband ISP and mobile networks compare across all of its...
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nPerf Rank EE Top in 2022 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks
Benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from their latest annual crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance for the first half of 2022, which once again crowns EE...
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ISP Quickline Open New HQ to Support Ultrafast Broadband Rollout
Alternative network provider Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England,...
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EE UK Launch New 4G and 5G Pay Monthly Mobile Plans and WiFi Boost
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched a refreshed range of Pay Monthly ‘Essentials‘, ‘All Rounder‘ and ‘Full Works‘ mobile plans for SIM-Only, handset bundles and connected device customers, which...
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Virgin Media O2 Update on Broadband and 5G Progress in Scotland
Telecoms giants Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today jointly issued somewhat of a brief progress update on the work they’ve been doing to deploy both gigabit-capable fixed line broadband ISP...
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Mobile Operators Seek More Engagement with UK Councils
The Mobile UK trade body, which represents Three UK, EE (BT), O2 (VMO2) and Vodafone, has published a new report that highlight how mobile connectivity can help councils overcome the challenges of...
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Top European and UK Vacation Cities for Mobile Broadband Speed
A recent study by Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service for benchmarking global internet connection performance, has revealed which of the top big “vacation” cities and towns in the UK...
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Starlink’s LEO Satellites to Deliver 4G and 5G Mobile from Space
The boss of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has confirmed that their Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based Starlink satellites, which normally deliver ultrafast broadband around the world, will soon also enable 4G and 5G...
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