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Street Works UK Recommends Changes to Help Build Full Fibre
Street Works UK (SWUK), which is a Trade Association that represents utilities and their contractors on street works issues, has published a new report that helps to highlight some of the barriers that...
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Vodafone UK Open Trial 5G Standalone Network to Customers
Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that the first “trial” customers are now able to connect to one of the UK’s first deployments of an ultrafast cloud-based 5G Standalone (SA) network, which has...
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RootMetrics Benchmark the Top UK Mobile Networks for H2 2022
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published their latest biannual H2 2022 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which once again sees...
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EE Expand 5G Cover to 60% of UK and Adds 19 New Locations UPDATE
Consumer broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that their ultrafast 5G based (mobile broadband) network now covers 60% of the UK’s population (up from 50% in May 2022) and, on...
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BT and Stratospheric Platforms Trial UAVs for Rural UK 5G Mobile
A new trial has been launched by telecoms giant BT (EE) and Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) – funded by Innovate UK, which aims to harness High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) aircraft, usually located...
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Mobile Operator Three UK Launch New Three Your Way 5G Plans
Mobile operator Three UK has today launched a new range of ‘Three Your Way‘ plans, which allows new customers to choose to pay for their device over a 12, 24 or even 36-month period, as well as to...
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Vodafone Reports UK Broadband Base of 1.16 Million Customers
Vodafone UK has published their latest quarterly (Q3 FY23) results, which states that their fixed broadband ISP base saw strong growth to total 1.158 million customers (up by 47k in the quarter vs 39k...
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EE UK Deploys 5G Mobile Broadband on London Underground
Mobile operator EE has announced that they’ve upgraded their new 4G mobile network on the London Underground by enabling the latest ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband connectivity, which will...
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BT Results See Openreach Near 10 Million FTTP Premises Milestone
The BT Group has today published their latest Q3 FY23 results to December 2022, which saw the coverage of Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network reach 9.57 million premises (up...
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Vodafone UK Follows EE to Deploy 5G on London Underground
Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that customers using the Notting Hill Gate station on the London Underground have started to receive their ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) signal. The tunnels...
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Three UK Follows EE and Vodafone to Put 5G on London Underground
Mobile operator Three UK has confirmed that they too have joined EE (here) and Vodafone (here) in starting to rollout their ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) service on the London Underground (tube...
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O2 UK Recommits to Inclusive EU Mobile Roaming as Standard
Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has recommitted to continue their existing policy of retaining inclusive EU roaming as a standard feature on their plans, which they claim could be helping to save an average...
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BT Work with Yorkshire Water Helps 1,000 Rural Premises Get 4G Mobile
A new BT (EE) trial, which deployed new mobile network infrastructure in order to help Yorkshire Water connect with smart IoT sensors to remotely monitor the water courses that feed Scar House...
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Government Shifts UK Broadband and Mobile to New Department
The UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, yesterday initiated yet another cabinet reshuffle and this time there was another significant change. Responsibility for digital infrastructure (e.g. broadband and...
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Smarty UK Launch Cheap 5G Mobile Unlimited Data Social Tariff
Mobile network operator Smarty has quietly added the ‘SMARTY Social Tariff‘ to their website, which as the name suggests is a low-cost unlimited data (mobile broadband), calls and texts (SMS) plan that...
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EE Expand 5G Mobile to 500 Smaller UK Rural Towns and Villages
Consumer broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that their ultrafast 5G based (mobile broadband) network is expanding into more rural parts of the UK, reaching national parks,...
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Neos is Preferred Bidder for Network Rail’s Trackside Fibre Cables
Network operator Neos Networks has today been named as the preferred bidder for Network Rail’s Project Reach, which among other things could see them invest in the design and build of a new trackside...
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Ookla Warns of Declining UK 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds
Ookla, which operates the popular internet Speedtest.net service, has warned that median 5G performance (mobile broadband download speeds) are declining in many early launch markets like the United...
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EE UK Offers 6 Months Half Price on 5G Unlimited Data Plans
Mobile operator EE (BT) has introduced a “6 Months Half Price” discount on their 4G and 5G SIM Only plans with unlimited calls, texts and data (mobile broadband), when taken with a 24-month minimum...
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Vodafone Build Portable Private Home 5G Network with Raspberry Pi
British mobile giant Vodafone has done something special. The operator has combined a credit-card sized Raspberry Pi 4 personal computer with a new mobile (mobile broadband) chip to create a portable...
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