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BT Miss Deadline to Remove All Huawei Kit from UK Core Network UPDATE
Telecoms giant BT (EE), and possibly several other UK network operators, have reportedly missed the 31st December 2023 deadline to remove Huawei’s equipment from their network cores. This puts them at...
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Three UK Discounts Unlimited 5G Home Broadband to £11
New customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those looking to take their 5G based unlimited Home Broadband package on a 24-month term, may like to know that the operator has discounted the...
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Vodafone UK Suffering Mobile Network Service Disruption UPDATE4
A growing number of customers on Vodafone’s UK mobile network are this morning reporting a significant service disruption, which appears to have started just after 6am and is currently continuing to...
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Ofcom UK Explore Reflective Surfaces to Boost Mobile Coverage
The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published an interesting new white paper that, in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, explores whether “reflective surfaces” could be...
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Vodafone UK Warn Over Costs of Adding Battery Backup to Mobile Sites
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today highlighted the potentially huge cost challenges involved with adding backup power (batteries etc.) to their network of 12,000+ mast sites across the country,...
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StreetWave Name Three UK Fastest for Mobile Data in Edinburgh
Mobile network analysts at Streetwave have published the results of a new real-world benchmark into mobile network performance across the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, which concluded that Three UK...
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MedUX Study Tests UK 5G Mobile Network Performance in London
Network testing and benchmarking firm MedUX has today published new research, which examines the performance and quality of 5G (mobile broadband) networks – including EE (BT), O2 (VMO2), Vodafone and...
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Vodafone Test Advanced 5G – Boosts Upload Speed up to 273Mb
British mobile operator Vodafone claims to have conducted the “first European test” of “advanced 5G uplink technology” by harnessing the latest Qualcomm processors and Xiaomi smartphone via their 5G...
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O2 UK Offer Network-First 48 Month Contract Option with Handsets
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) last week became the first operator to launch a 48-month contract option for customers who take one of the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones alongside a mobile...
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RootMetrics Benchmark Reveals Top UK Mobile Networks for H2 2023
Mobile network analyst firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has published their latest biannual H2 2023 benchmark study of UK mobile networks (4G and 5G) and mobile broadband performance, which once again sees EE...
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Better Mobile Coverage Getting Closer on East Coast Mainline
The London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has reported that their joint project to deploy new 4G / 5G mobile network infrastructure into train tunnels outside London King’s Cross station has reached a...
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BT Group Add 950k Premises to FTTP Broadband Cover in Q4 2023
Broadband and telecoms giant BT Group has today posted a short trading update for the last quarter to December 2023, which reveals that Openreach expanded the UK coverage of their Fibre-to-the-Premises...
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UK Struggles in 2024 Country Ranking of Mobile Broadband Speeds
Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Opensignal, which collects data from consumer speedtests, has today published a new summary of mobile broadband (4G and 5G) speeds across Europe – based on data from Q4...
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Gigabit Broadband Still Top Digital Priority for UK Councils
Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published their second annual (2024) survey of digital leaders at councils across England, Scotland and Wales. The results reveal that getting more...
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Vodafone UK Top 1.33 Million Broadband and 18.57m Mobile Users
Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has just released their Q3 FY24 financial results, which saw their fixed line broadband base grow to total 1.331 million customers (up by 39k in Q3 vs 27k in the...
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StreetWave Name EE UK Fastest for Mobile Broadband in London
Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has today published the results of a new real-world benchmark, which examined the mobile operator performance of EE (BT), O2 (Virgin Media), Vodafone and Three UK...
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Results from BT UK 5G Network Slicing Trial Hint at Future Products
BT (EE) has today announced the outcome of their recent 5G based mobile network slicing trial at their Adastral Park facility. The trial showed how future products could be launched that establish...
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Three UK Tops Ookla H2 2023 Study of 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds
Internet connection testing firm Ookla, which collects its data via the popular Speedtest.net service, recently published their latest Q3-Q4 2023 (H2) study into the performance of 5G based mobile...
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Vodafone UK Launch Unlimited Mobile Data Plan for CCTV Cameras
Mobile operator Vodafone has today launched their “Connected Spaces Vision” plan, which offers unlimited data to business customers that need to live stream video from IoT smart surveillance cameras...
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Revolut Becomes First UK Financial Institution to Launch eSIM UPDATE
Customers of banking and money management app Revolut may be interested to learn that they’ve just become the “first financial institution in the UK” to launch an eSIM based mobile service, which is...
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