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easySim’s Low Cost Mobile Travel Data Service Goes Live in UK
As predicted last month (here), the Stelios-linked easy® family of brands (i.e. easyJet, easyMoney, easyCar) has this week launched a new UK mobile operator service called easySim.global, which is...
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Report Finds UK Gigabit Broadband and 5G Rollout Needs More Collaboration
A new report from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has found that UK’s rollout of gigabit-capable broadband and 5G mobile connectivity would benefit from improvements in...
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Vodafone Boost UK 5G Mobile Rollout with New Ericsson Antenna
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve begun to deploy Ericsson’s new single Interleaved AIR 3218 antenna, which aims to increase the mid-band (radio spectrum) capacity of their...
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Building Digital UK Agency Publish Corporate Plan for 2023 to 2026
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency, which oversees various gigabit-capable broadband and mobile network (4G, 5G etc.) deployment projects, has today published their corporate Plan for...
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Farrpoint Finds Investing in UK Rural 4G Mobile Brings Big Benefits
A new report from technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint, which examined the impact of a single network deployment, claims to have proven that investing in better rural mobile connectivity will bring...
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Ofcom Publish Benchmarks of UK 5G, 4G and 3G Mobile Networks
Ofcom has published its 2023 Mobile Matters report, which uses Opensignal’s crowdsourced data (collected between 1st October 2022 and 31st March 2023) to benchmark the performance of UK mobile data...
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Vodafone UK – Total Mobile Data Usage Hit 64TB During Wimbledon
Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has revealed that 532,651 tennis-fans attended The Championships 2023 and tracking shows that over 64 TeraBytes (up by 36.5% from 2022) of mobile broadband data were...
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Vodafone UK Grows to Total 1.265m Broadband Customers
Vodafone UK has today published their latest Q1 FY24 results, which saw fixed line broadband ISP base grow to total 1.265 million customers (up by 42k in the quarter vs 65k in Q4 FY23), while their...
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Freshwave Bring UK 4G and 5G Mobile to Elevators in Two London Towers
Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave has revealed that they’re working with the One Nine Elms (R&F Properties UK) site in London to deploy in-building mobile connectivity for all four mobile...
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RootMetrics Study Names Best UK Mobile Networks for H1 2023
Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has published their latest biannual H1 2023 study of UK mobile network (4G and 5G) and mobile broadband performance, which sees EE (BT) continue to pick up...
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Virgin Media O2 UK Cuts 2,000 Jobs as Broadband Customers Fall UPDATE2
Broadband ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have published their Q2 2023 results, which saw their fixed broadband base fall by -15,300 in the quarter to total 5,667,300 (vs 28.8k added in...
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Mobile Operator VOXI UK Gifts Triple Data at No Extra Cost
Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is a virtual operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone UK, are now offering both new and existing customers the ability to triple their data allowance on their £12...
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BT Stabilises UK FTTP Broadband Build – Adds 718,000 Premises
The BT Group has published a rather limited Q1 FY24 (quarterly) trading update to June 2023, which includes very few of the usual details but does reveal that Openreach’s roll-out of a full fibre...
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nPerf Rank Three UK Top in 2023 Benchmark of Mobile Networks
Benchmarking firm nPerf has just published the results from their annual 2023 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which sees Three UK taking the crown of best mobile...
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Better Rural Broadband and Mobile Could Boost UK Economy by £65.1bn
New research from network operator Virgin Media (VMO2) and economic consultancy Cebr has claimed that £65.1bn could be added to the UK economy and employment could be increased by 6.8% (creating an...
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NET CHECK Mobile Testing Names Vodafone UK Best for London
A new benchmark of mobile network performance (voice and broadband) across the Greater London area, which was conducted by the little known NET CHECK organisation, has revealed that Vodafone UK beat...
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£160m Gov Fund May Fuel Future UK 5G and Broadband Satellites
The UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) have today revealed that they’re “exploring” a new plan, which could open a £160 million fund...
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Local vs Roaming – UK and EU Mobile Broadband Speeds Compared
Ookla, which operates the popular internet Speedtest.net benchmarking service, has published the results of an interesting new study that examines how mobile broadband (4G and 5G) performance (i.e....
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Virgin Media O2 Business Launch UK Portable 5G Private Network
Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2) has today announced somewhat of a UK first by becoming the first telecoms operator to launch a commercially-available portable 5G private...
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Gov Commits £40m to Trial New UK 5G and Wireless Broadband Tech
The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has opened a new £40 million fund to help local and regional authorities to test and adopt 5G and other advanced wireless...
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