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Report Predicts 5G Mobile Will Deliver 50Mbps Speeds to 90% of UK by 2026
A new study from the Cambridge Judge Business School, which examined the cost, coverage and roll-out implications of future 5G networks in Britain, has forecast that the roll-out of “ultrafast” Mobile...
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Infrastructure Commission Calls for Urgent Action to Improve Broadband
The Government’s National Infrastructure Commission has launched a new consultation which, among other things, warns that the United Kingdom “risks falling behind” other countries in its next...
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UK Government Kicks Off £25m Hunt for 5G Mobile Testbeds and Trials
The Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has started to hunt for the first test locations to support a future rollout of 5G based Mobile and Fixed Wireless Broadband...
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New UK Land Access Changes Set to Boost Mobile and Broadband Cover
The Government has today laid draft regulations in Parliament that revise the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) in order to make it easier and cheaper for network operators to roll-out new broadband...
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Ofcom UK to Free 3.6GHz to 3.8GHz Radio Spectrum for 5G Mobile by 2022
Ofcom has today started their formal process for making the 3.6GHz to 3.8GHz radio spectrum band available for use by future 5G based Mobile and Mobile Broadband technologies in the United Kingdom,...
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CBNL Survey and TalkTalk CEO Say UK Business Broadband is Poor
A new survey of 200 UK businesses, which was commissioned by Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL), has found that 47% are not receiving the broadband speeds promised by their ISP, while 35% have been...
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Arqiva to Stick WiFi and 4G Cells on Lampposts in London’s Waltham Forest
Wireless UK infrastructure firm Arqiva has today signed their 14th concession agreement in London, which will give them access to install their 4G / 5G Mobile Small Cells and WiFi access points on up...
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EE Delivers 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds of 2.8Gbps in First Network Test
Mobile operator EE (BT) and Huawei have conducted their first UK lab test of an end-to-end 5G network, which delivered a consistent download speed of 2.8Gbps (Gigabits per second) using an active...
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UPDATE3 Autumn UK Budget 2017 Sees £385m for Full Fibre Broadband and 5G
The Government’s Chancellor, Philip Hammond MP, has today given his Autumn Budget 2017 speech and committed to invest £500 million into a “range of initiatives from artificial intelligence, to 5G and...
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Arqiva and Dali Wireless Improve Mobile Coverage in Glasgow City Centre
Wireless infrastructure builder Arqiva has joined with Dali Wireless and Cellular Asset Management to improve Mobile coverage and capacity around Glasgow city centre (Scotland, UK) by harnessing a new...
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UK Gov Reviews the Barriers to Full Fibre Broadband and 5G Investment
The Government has today launched a new review that will examine what changes need to be made (e.g. planning, copper switch-off) in order to make the United Kingdom attractive for investment to support...
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Ofcom UK Moots High Frequency Spectrum for Fixed Wireless Broadband
Ofcom has today proposed changes that could result in faster fixed wireless data and broadband links, such as exploring the potential for radio spectrum above 92GHz, changing the authorisation regime...
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UK Government Updates on 5G Mobile Rollout Strategy and Trials
The Government has today issued an update on the progress of their 5G strategy, which aims to help foster the UK roll-out of next generation ultrafast Mobile Broadband technology. As part of that...
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Vodafone and Ericsson Conduct UK 5G Mobile Field Trial at 3.5GHz
Mobile operator Vodafone and Ericsson today claim to have become the “first” in the United Kingdom to conduct a live pre-standard test of future 5G Mobile technology, which was run both indoors and...
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Court Rules in Favour of Ofcom in EE and Three UK’s 5G Spectrum Fight
Ofcom’s planned auction of 4G and 5G friendly radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands might soon proceed after the High Court rejected an appeal by Three UK, which had demanded that the regulator...
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First Part of Future Ultrafast 5G Mobile Standard Completed by 3GPP
Yesterday evening the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) declared completion of the first real specification for the future 5G Mobile standard (5G New Radio Non-Standalone) at a meeting in...
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UPD Gov Target 1Gbps WiFi and Mobile Broadband on All UK Mainline Trains
The Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will tomorrow at 9am begin a new ‘Call for Evidence’ on proposals that could help to make WiFi and Mobile (5G) broadband speeds...
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Ofcom Press Forward UK Auction of 4G and 5G Mobile Spectrum
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has said that they will publish the auction regulations for the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz radio spectrum award process on Wednesday 24th January, which is despite the fact...
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SSE Enterprise Telecoms Sets Out its 2018 Predictions for UK Networks
The enterprise division of SSE Enterprise Telecoms has today set out its list of predictions for the major trends that could affect UK telecoms in 2018, which focuses on the rise of alternative network...
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BT Pick Nokia ReefShark Chipset to Fuel Future 5G UK Mobile Network
Telecoms operator BT has said that they expect “huge network performance improvements” after choosing to adopt Nokia’s new ReefShark chipsets into EE’s UK mobile network, which they hope will enable...
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