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Three UK Slowly Grows Outdoor 5G Mobile Coverage to 61%
Mobile operator Three UK has today reported their latest results to 30th June 2023, which among other things reveals that their 5G based mobile broadband network is now live across more than 4,400...
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Three UK Build 100th Rural 4G Mobile Site Under SRN Project UPDATE
Mobile operator Three UK has this morning announced that they’ve so far built 100 new cell sites as part of the £1 billion Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. The new sites are currently providing 4G...
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Signal Woes After O2 UK Shuts Norfolk Mobile Mast Due to MoD Radar
Customers of mobile operator O2 (VMO2) in the rural Norfolk (England) village of Horning have complained of signal problems after one of the operator’s key mobile masts in the area was disconnected,...
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Sky Mobile UK Bundle Apple MacBook Laptops from £22 Monthly
Mobile operator Sky Mobile, which harnesses O2’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform, appears to have become one of the first UK mobile providers to add Apple MacBook laptops to its range...
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BT FDD Trial Looks to Boost 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Speeds
A new trial has just been conducted by UK telecoms giant BT (EE) and supplier Ericsson, which is claimed to be somewhat of a “European first” after it successfully demonstrated the transmission of...
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Promising Trouble to Pilot Community-Owned Broadband in London
Non-profit policy developer Promising Trouble – supported by Impact on Urban Health – are preparing to launch a new 18-month project in London (likely around Southwark or Lambeth) next year that will...
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Vodafone UK Trial Cloud Gaming on 5G Standalone Network Slice
Mobile operator Vodafone UK and network supplier Ericsson have today announced that they’ve concluded a successful trial of cloud-based video gaming on their new 5G Standalone (SA) network, which...
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SMARTY UK Refreshes 4G and 5G Mobile Plans with More Data
Mobile operator SMARTY, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s national network, will sometime this morning launch a refreshed range of 4G and 5G capable Pay Monthly mobile...
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Ads Watchdog Bans EE’s Misleading No.1 UK 5G Network Claims
A series of complaints, most of which came from rivals Three UK and Vodafone, has prompted the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to investigate and ban several old adverts for EE’s mobile...
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BT UK Trial Boosts 5G Standalone Upload Speeds to 230Mbps+
Telecoms giant BT (EE) and network supplier Nokia claim to have pushed mobile broadband upload speeds to over 230Mbps on a new trial network, which operated by harnessing the uplink aggregation of two...
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Mobile Operator Talkmobile Launch UK Unlimited Data Plan
Mobile operator Talkmobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on parent Vodafone’s national UK 4G and 5G network, has finally launched their first plan offering “unlimited data” and at...
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5G Download Speeds Have Fallen in 9 out of 12 UK Regions
Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular broadband and mobile network performance testing service Speedtest.net, has revealed that 5G based mobile broadband download speeds have...
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Virgin Media O2 UK Offers Free Airport Lounge Access to Delayed Travellers
Customers of Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), specifically those who are currently facing airport delays of 60 minutes or more at over 500 airports around the world – something that has been in the news...
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Vodafone UK Starts Large Scale Build of OpenRAN to 2,500 Sites
Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today moved out of the pilot phase for its new 4G and 5G capable Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technology and begun their “volume deployment“, which...
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Telecoms Industry Commands 46% of Searches for UK Digging Work
The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has published their annual Digging Up...
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Vodafone to Extend 5G Cover via Amazon’s Project Kuiper Satellites
Mobile operator Vodafone and Vodacom have today announced that they’ve agreed a “strategic collaboration” deal to harness Amazon’s future Project Kuiper constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband...
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UK and Chinese Universities Team Up to Research Streaming Tech for 6G
A team of researchers from Edge Hill University’s Engineering Department and Sichuan University’s College of Electronics and Information Engineering – led by Professor Ray Sheriff – have joined forces...
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Ofcom Summer 2023 Study – Full Fibre Broadband Covers 52% of UK
Ofcom’s summer 2023 study of UK fixed broadband and mobile coverage has reported that “full fibre” (FTTP) now reaches 52% of the UK (up from 48% in Jan 2023), while 75% are within reach of a...
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EE UK Extend 4G and 5G to West End London Underground Stations
Mobile operator EE (BT) has just announced that their ongoing deployment of a 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) network on the London Underground – in partnership with Boldyn Networks and Nokia – has now...
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Ofcom UK Consult on Changes to Electronic Communications Code
The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today launched a consultation on their proposals to update the Electronic Communications Code (ECC), which aims to introduce the government’s recent...
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