New Vodafone 5G Mast Design Could Cut Number of UK Masts
Mobile operator Vodafone has recently begun to introduce a new space-saving “Quad Stack” design of 5G mast across parts of Greater London, which is not only intended to help improve mobile broadband...
View ArticleMobile Operator O2 UK Quietly Discontinues Pay As You Go Data SIMs
Some customers of O2 UK’s (Virgin Media) Pay As You Go Data SIMs (mobile broadband) have recently been surprised to find that they can no longer top their plans up with extra data. The reason for this...
View ArticleChannel Islands 5G Boost as Sure Complete Airtel Vodafone Acquisition
Mobile and broadband operator Sure, which serves the English Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, has announced the completion of their move to acquire rival Airtel Vodafone. The deal also signals...
View ArticleMobile Operator iD Mobile Tops 2 Million UK Subscriptions
Low-cost mobile operator iD Mobile (Currys), which harnesses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G network via a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has today celebrated another significant milestone by...
View ArticleVirgin Media O2 UK Switches on First 5G Standalone Small Cells
After launching their commercial 5G Standalone (SA) mobile network during February 2024 (here), O2 (Virgin Media) has today followed that up by claiming to have become the “first UK operator to switch...
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BT Group See FTTP Broadband Cover 15.9 Million UK Premises as 5G Tops 80...
The BT Group has today published their latest biannual H1 FY25 results to Sept 2024, which reveals that Openreach’s UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network added 2.1 million premises to their...
View ArticleThree UK Launch Black Friday Discount on 4G and 5G Home Broadband
Mobile operator Three UK has become the latest telecoms provider to introduce some big Black Friday discounts, which starts today with their 4G and 5G powered unlimited Three Home Broadband packages...
View ArticleVodafone UK Offer 6 Months Half Price on Unlimited Data SIM Plans
New customers looking to take one of Vodafone‘s Pay Monthly 4G and 5G SIM Only mobile plans with unlimited data (mobile broadband), specifically those operating under a 24-month minimum contract term,...
View ArticleO2 and Vodafone UK Users Suffer Month of Poor Signal in Cullingworth
Customers of mobile operators O2 and Vodafone in the West Yorkshire (England) village of Cullingworth have struggled to get a usable network service for over a month after one of Cornerstone’s (CTIL)...
View ArticleGoogle Pixel Owners Suffer UK Mobile Calling Problems on Spusu
Some customers of SIM-Only mobile operator spusu, specifically those that own various particular models of Google’s popular Pixel Smartphones, have been complaining that they often struggle to make or...
View ArticleOfcom Move Forward with UK 5G Mobile Auction for 26GHz and 40GHz
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published the final draft auction regulations for its plan to auction off a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum frequency in the 26GHz and...
View ArticleVodafone UK Tops 1.48 Million Broadband and 18.47M Mobile Users
Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today published their Q2 FY25 financial results, which reveals that their fixed line broadband base grew again to total 1.477 million customers (up by 50k in Q2...
View ArticleMobile Operator Smarty Launches UK Black Friday Discounts
New customers looking to join Smarty, which is a virtual mobile operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s national network, may like to know that they’ve kicked off their Black Friday deals, such as by doubling...
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EY Survey Claims UK Homes Prepared to Swap from Fixed Broadband to 5G
EY has today published their annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers, which among other things reveals that the cost-of-living crisis has prompted 34% to consider “more economical broadband...
View ArticleYcorp Launch New Data-only eSIM Driven UK Mobile Operator Ymobile
A new UK mobile operator called Ymobile (Ycorp) has officially launched today and claims to be the United Kingdom’s “first data-led, eSIM MVNO“, all while claiming to offer users a “simpler, more...
View ArticleO2 UK Confirm End Date for PAYG Mobile Broadband and iPad SIMs
A couple of weeks ago ISPreview reported on how mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) had withdrawn their Pay As You Go (PAYG) Data and iPad SIMs (mobile broadband) from sale to new customers (here). But...
View ArticleO2 UK Boost 4G and 5G Network Capacity for 850 Wolverhampton Postcodes
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to improve their 4G and 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton,...
View ArticleiD Mobile Doubles Data on UK Mobile Plans for Black Friday
Low-cost mobile network operator iD Mobile (Currys), which harnesses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G platform under a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has launched a range of Black Friday promotions...
View ArticleStreetwave to Conduct County-Wide Mobile Coverage Study of Argyll and Bute
The Argyll and Bute Council (ABC) in Scotland has joined forces with network analyst firm Streetwave and the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) to conduct the “first county-wide mobile coverage survey” in...
View ArticleMobile Operators Fear UK 5G Rollout At Risk from Dispute with Leasing Firm
Mobile network operators (e.g. EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK) appear to be increasingly raising concerns over the impact that leasing firm AP Wireless is having on their already sluggish deployment of...
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