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Virgin Media O2 UK and NEC Extend OpenRAN Mobile to Field Trial
Broadband and mobile giant O2 (VMO2) has today announced that their early tests of Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN or O-RAN) technology – supported by NEC and Rakuten Symphony – are now being...
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Opensignal Show Divide in UK Rural vs Urban Mobile Broadband Speed
New data from mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has looked at the mobile broadband network experience in rural and urban areas of the United Kingdom on 4G and 5G based networks, which naturally finds...
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Poynting Launch XPOL-24 Antenna to Boost 5G Mobile Broadband
Some of our readers may be interested to learn that Poynting has recently begun to make their latest external antenna – the XPOL-24 – available to retail, which is specifically designed to get the most...
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Mobile Operator Tries to Hide UK Mobile Mast.. As a Toilet Brush?
Sometimes when you try particularly hard to hide something big, you end up making it even more obvious – this seems to be what happened after EE and Three UK attempted to hide a new 25-metre mobile...
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EE Extend 5G Mobile Broadband Cover to 14 New UK Areas
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced the next phase of its effort to rollout their ultrafast 5G based network across the United Kingdom, which among other changes, will extend its network across...
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Three UK Zero Rates Data Use for Financial and Guidance Sites
Mobile operator Three UK has today announced that, as part of their measures to help tackle the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, they’ve enabled it so that customers can access seven financial advice and...
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West Berkshire Makes it Harder to Rollout 5G Mobile Networks
The UK Government’s recent changes to Permitted Development (PD) rights for mobile infrastructure (here), which aimed to help extend 5G and 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in rural areas of England...
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DCF Report Warns Investment Gap May Limit UK 5G Rollout
A new report from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has warned that the UK’s rollout of faster 5G based mobile broadband networks may struggle to achieve some of its...
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British Satellite Firm OneWeb to Test 5G Mobile from Space
British-registered satellite broadband operator OneWeb has joined with the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey (5GIC) and CGI to launch a new 5G-Pilot Test project, which will trial the...
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Mobile Operator Giffgaff Fixes UK Prices Until the End of 2023
Earlier this year giffgaff announced that, in order to help ease the burden of rising costs, they would freeze the prices on all of their UK tariffs for the rest of 2022. The good news is that they’ve...
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LG Push TeraHertz Based 6G Mobile Data Signal to 320 Metres
A new experimental test of early 6G mobile broadband technology, which was conducted by LG Electronics (LG) at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Germany, has demonstrated a wireless...
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Three UK Add New ZYXEL 5G Hub for Unlimited Home Broadband
Customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those looking to adopt their 5G unlimited Home Broadband packages (£20 per month – first 6 months at £10), may like to know that they’re no longer...
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ASDA Mobile UK Discount 4G and 5G Unlimited Mobile Data SIMs
The mobile division of supermarket chain ASDA has launched somewhat of an early “Black Friday exclusive” promotion by discounting the price of their Pay Monthly (1-month term) “unlimited data” (mobile...
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Wireless Broadband Firms Curvalux UK and CBNG Have Merged
Two of the UK’s most prominent developers of cutting edge fixed wireless access (FWA) and mobile broadband equipment – Curvalux and the Cambridge Broadband Networks Group (CBNG) – have today completed...
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Mobile Giant Vodafone Confirms Merger Talks with Three UK
After months of speculation, mobile network operator Vodafone UK has today confirmed that they are officially in “discussions” with Three UK’s parent (CK Hutchison Holdings) about the possibility of a...
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UK Government Secures Seat on the Global UN Telecoms Council
The United Kingdom has succeeded in getting itself elected to hold a seat on the influential governing council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which will give it more of a say in...
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Essex UK Council Starts £1.88m Digital and Broadband Project
The Essex County Council in England has this week launched its new £1.88m Digital Essex programme – part of the wider Digital Strategy for Essex (here), which among other things will develop a “local...
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Ofcom Autumn 2022 Study – UK Gigabit Broadband Hits 68% Cover
Ofcom’s autumn 2022 report into fixed broadband and mobile coverage has found that “full fibre” (FTTP) now reaches 37% of the UK, while 20.2 million homes (68%) are within reach of a gigabit-capable...
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techUK Finds Room for Improvement in UK 5G and Full Fibre Delivery
techUK, an industry group for many of the UK’s key technology companies, has today published the outcome of their review into the progress that the Government have been making on rolling out both...
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Government to Open UK Telecommunications Lab in Solihull
The UK Government has today announced their plan to open a new “state-of-the-art UK Telecommunications Lab” in Solihull (West Midlands), which will bring together broadband operators, suppliers and...
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