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Virgin Media O2 UK Appoints New COO and MD for Fixed Network Expansion
Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media O2 has today announced that, as part of their efforts to reorganise and focus the company on a “customer-first, digital-first and converged mentality and mission...
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Vodafone UK and ITN Test 5G Standalone for Live Broadcast TV
Mobile operator Vodafone and TV broadcaster ITN have today announced that the Coronation of King Charles III will be the first UK broadcast to be enabled by a public 5G Standalone (SA) network, which...
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EE UK Launch New Console Trade-In Service and PC Gaming Laptop Bundles
Mobile network operator EE (BT) has today launched a new console (video gaming) trade-in service that offers cashback for old gaming hardware. On top of that, they’ve also launched a new range of PC...
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Survey Claims UK 5G Mobile Users are Satisfied with Performance
A new OnePoll survey of 1,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Green Smartphones and focused on those who reported using 5G to get online via their mobile phones, has claimed that 80% of people are...
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Virgin Media O2, Starlink and Wavemobile Trial Brings 4G to Remote Wales
O2 UK (VMO2) has completed a unique trial in an extremely remote part of Wales, which successfully worked with Starlink’s network of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and...
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EE Offers Free UK Mobile Broadband Data for King’s Coronation UPDATE2
Customers of mobile operator EE (BT) may be pleased to learn that they’ll be zero-rating data (free usage) across their entire mobile network for the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6th and...
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Virgin Media O2 Sees UK Broadband Growth as Nexfibre Expands UPDATE
Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has published their latest Q1 2023 results, which saw broadband customers grow to total 5,682,600 (up by 28.8k vs 22.7k in Q4 2022) and 5G mobile expand its coverage to 2,100...
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SMARTY UK Offers 100GB Mobile 5G SIM for £12 Per Month
Mobile operator SMARTY, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s network, has launched a new SIM Only offer that gives new customers 100GB of mobile broadband data for just £12...
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West Midlands Named Best Connected UK Region for 5G Cover
A new report from telecoms analyst firm Umlaut, which analysed geographic 5G mobile coverage across the UK’s Combined Authority areas, has identified the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) region...
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Councils Warn Digital Divide Holding Some Back in Broadband Slow Lane
The Local Government Association, which represents councils from across England and Wales, has published a “new” report that warns of how poorer households are being left behind in the “broadband slow...
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Vodafone Top 1.22m UK Broadband Customers and Cuts 11,000 Jobs
Vodafone UK has released their latest Q4 FY23 results, which reveals that their fixed line broadband ISP base grew strongly to total 1.223 million customers (up by 65k in the quarter vs 47k in Q3...
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BT Slows FTTP Build as Cover Grows to 10.27 Million UK Premises UPDATE
BT Group has today published their latest Q4 FY23 (quarterly) results to March 2023, which saw Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network grow to cover 10.274 million premises (up...
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Ofcom Spring 2023 Study – Gigabit Broadband Covers 73% of UK
Ofcom’s Spring 2023 report into UK fixed line broadband and mobile coverage has found that “full fibre” (FTTP) now reaches 48% of the UK (up from 42% in Sept 2022), while 73% are within reach of a...
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EE UK Pilots 3G Switch Off in Warrington from 17th July 2023
Mobile operator EE (BT) has announced that they will conduct an initial pilot of their 3G withdrawal scheme in the Cheshire (England) town of Warrington from the week of 17th July 2023. This will be...
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53% of UK Mobile Users See Average Downloads Below 30Mbps
New data from mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has revealed that 53.3% of UK Smartphone users achieve average mobile broadband download speeds below 30Mbps (sub-“superfast” level), while 14% suffer...
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Clarifying Some Myths Around the UK Shutdown of 3G Mobile
In recent weeks the news has been full of reports (e.g. here and here), which frequently warn – without challenge – that the move by Mobile Network Operators (MNO) O2, Three UK, Vodafone and EE to...
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Amazon Says No Current Plan to Bundle Mobile Tariff with Prime
Internet retail and streaming giant Amazon is reportedly in the very early stages of exploring whether or not to add a Mobile phone service as an extra feature of their paid Prime membership, which...
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Gov Launch New £7m Fund to Test UK Rural Broadband Solutions
The UK Government will today launch a new £7 million fund as one part of their wider Unleashing Rural Opportunity strategy, which will be used to “test out new ways” of bringing together satellite,...
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Dedicated Wales Mobile Operator RWG Mobile Launch 5G
RWG Mobile, which describes itself as being the nation’s only “dedicated, all-Wales mobile network provider”, has today announced that they’ve finally made 5G based mobile broadband connectivity...
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EE Deploys 411 New Small Cells to Boost UK 4G and 5G Mobile
Mobile operator EE (BT) has announced that they’ve deployed another 411 small cells (tiny base stations) on UK street furniture and buildings in order to boost the coverage and speed of their 4G based...
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