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Guernsey Set for £48m 5G Mobile Boost as Gov Suspends Competition Law
The States of Guernsey, which governs the English Channel Island of Guernsey (British Crown dependency), yesterday voted to do something extraordinary by temporarily suspending local competition law in...
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EE UK Expand Freshwave’s Small Cell 5G Network in Central London
Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave has revealed that EE UK have begun to expand their original trial deployment of a new small cell based outdoor 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) network in...
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Study Shows Impact of Tourism on Mobile Broadband Speeds in Ceredigion
The Growing Mid Wales programme and network analyst firm Streetwave have used their ongoing mobile connectivity study in Ceredigion (Wales) to reveal what sort of impact tourism has on mobile broadband...
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Poor Mobile Signal and Notspots Mapped in Nottinghamshire UK
The Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) in England has published some of the initial results from a project it undertook with Birmingham City University (BCU) and other local authorities, which mapped...
View ArticleSMF Study Identifies Weaknesses in UK 5G Mobile Deployments
A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF), which is a cross-party think-tank, has highlighted how the UK is still a long way from reaping the benefits of achieving ubiquitous 5G mobile...
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UltraNetworks Deploy 5G Broadband to Reach Part of Rural Aberdeenshire
Internet provider UltraNetworks has used vouchers from the Scottish Government to help it upgrade and deploy a new 5G Standalone (SA) based fixed wireless (FWA) network from Mormond Hill. The site will...
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Ofcom Survey Finds Growth in Unlimited UK Mobile Data Tariffs
Ofcom has published the results from a new survey that is intended to help monitor how well the UK mobile market is functioning and whether it continues to deliver good outcomes. For example, the work...
View ArticleVodafone UK Trial Pushes 5G mmWave Broadband Speeds up to 4Gbps
Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced the results of two recent 5G trials using a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum, which managed to deliver home...
View ArticleBT Group and EE UK Switch-On First Self-Powered 5G Mobile Site
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today become the latest network operator to switch-on a self-powered 4G and 5G (broadband) mobile site, which uses a mix of solar power and a wind turbine...
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Opensignal Compare Vodafone’s UK and Pan European Mobile Performance
Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which uses crowdsourced data from its app to test broadband and mobile networks, has published a new report that shows how Vodafone’s mobile network performance...
View ArticleVodafone UK Boost 4G Data on £8 SIM Only Basics Plan to 40GB
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has increased the bundled 4G data allowance (mobile broadband) on their £8 per month SIM Only Basics plan from 30GB (GigaBytes) to 40GB. The operator’s Basics plans also...
View ArticleEE to Put 5G Standalone Mobile Network Live in 16 New UK Locations
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning announced the next batch of 16 new UK locations (towns and cities) where their new 5G Standalone (SA) network will be deployed “before the end...
View ArticleO2 UK Clarify Contradictory Claim of 5G Support on PAYG Plans
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has clarified to ISPreview that their Pay As You Go (PAYG) SIM plans still do NOT currently support their latest 5G (mobile broadband) network, which is despite the...
View ArticleVodafone Upgrade 4G and 5G Mobile at UK Holiday Parks and Nearby Communities
Mobile network operator Vodafone has today announced that they’ve teamed-up with wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave to provide “improved high-speed” 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) connectivity at...
View ArticleVirgin Media O2 UK Broadband Users Grow to 5.73M as FTTP Adds 281K Premises
The latest Q3 2024 results from Virgin Media (O2) have been published, which shows that they’re home to 5,726,900 fixed broadband customers (up by 16.2k in Q3 vs -12.2k in Q2) and expanded their full...
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Study Finds Three UK’s 3G Switch-Off Boosted Speeds, But Hurt Coverage
Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has used data gathered from across Northumberland (England) and Ceredigion (Wales) to examine the recent switch-off of 3G mobile services in those areas by Three...
View ArticleOokla Claim Quarter of UK Smartphone Users Suffer Network Outage at Least...
A new survey of over 1,000 UK smartphone users by Omdia, which was commissioned by network testing firm Ookla (i.e. Speedtest.net, Downdetector.co.uk), has revealed some of the biggest frustrations...
View ArticleAutumn UK Budget 2024 Commits £500m to Broadband and Mobile UPDATE3
The new Chancellor of the Labour Government, Rachel Reeves MP, has today announced her first Autumn 2024 Budget and confirmed that she would commit “over £500m of funding next year” for “improving...
View ArticleO2 UK Offers Pay As You Go Mobile Customers a Free DATA Boost
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, until 5th February 2025, both new and existing Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile customers will get the chance to boost their data (mobile broadband) by...
View ArticlenPerf Finds Top EU Countries Beat UK for Mobile Broadband Speeds
Internet benchmarking firm nPerf has today released the results of a new study into mobile broadband (3G, 4G and 5G) performance across several EU countries, which analysed 61,696 internet speed tests...
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