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Giffgaff Predict UK 5G Mobile Data Use Per User of 100GB by 2025
Mobile operator giffgaff, which harnesses O2’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform, has predicted that the future rollout of 5G services within the UK could push their average monthly data...
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Best and Worst UK Train Operators Ranked by Internet Reliability
A new survey of 27,819 train passengers, which was conducted by Transport Focus during autumn 2017, has revealed that just 30% of commuters are satisfied with the reliability of their on-board internet...
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5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Proceeds After Appeal by Three UK Fails
Last night the Court of Appeal in London rejected Three UK’s final attempt to have Ofcom impose a 30% spectrum cap on their forthcoming auction of 4G and 5G friendly radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz and...
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Mobile Operator O2 UK Confirms First 5G Test Bed Set for London
Mobile network operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has today announced that they too are planning to conduct a test of future 5G ultrafast Mobile Broadband technology, which will take place at The O2 venue in...
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Ofcom Clears 6 UK Mobile Operators to Bid on 4G and 5G Spectrum
The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today approved six telecoms operators’ to take part in the forthcoming auction of 4G and 5G friendly radio spectrum, which will see 40MHz of frequency in the...
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Ofcom Consult on UK Rural 5G Mobile Coverage Obligation at 700MHz
The UK telecoms regulator has today launched a new consultation, which seeks to establish what sort of future 4G or 5G based coverage obligation will be attached to the 700MHz band of radio spectrum...
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Government Name Six UK Winners of £25m for 5G Mobile Trials
The government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has today named six projects that have won a slice of £25 million (public funding) to help trial the next generation of 5G...
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Ofcom to Begin UK 4G and 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Next Week
The national telecoms regulator has today confirmed that their auction of 4G and 5G friendly Mobile spectrum, which will see 40MHz of frequency in the 2.3GHz band (2350-2390MHz) and 150MHz in the...
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O2 Study Believes 5G Mobile Will Save UK Households £450 Per Year
A new report from mobile operator O2 has claimed that future 5G networks could save UK households £450 a year on energy, council and food bills. Apparently it’s all due to swanky things like smart...
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Fixed Wireless ISP Connexin Drops Out of UK Spectrum Auction
Fixed wireless access ISP Connexin, which operates broadband networks in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has this morning suddenly dropped out of next week’s UK auction for the 4G friendly...
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EE UK Fills 12000km2 of UK Notspots for Mobile Network Coverage
Mobile operator EE has announced that they’ve “filled in” 12,000 square kilometres of mobile not-spots in the last 12 months, which forms part of their aim to extend geographic (landmass) 4G network...
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Cambridgeshire UK Tout £5.5m to Boost FTTP Broadband and Mobile
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority in England has today proposed to invest a further £5.5 million into helping expand the availability of 300Mbps capable FTTP “full fibre”...
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5G Mobile Innovation Network Goes Live to Oversee UK Trials
The government supported UK5G innovation network has officially launched this week to help research, develop and oversee trials of the future 5G Mobile technology, which could one day deliver peak...
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UK Government Goes Hunting for the First 5G Mobile City
The UK government has today proposed to develop a “large-scale, citywide testbed” as part of a multi million pound “5G city” trial of the future high speed Mobile technology, which forms part of their...
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Ofcom Reveal Initial UK 4G and 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Winners
The UK telecoms regulator has today revealed the preliminary winners from their auction of the new 4G Mobile friendly 2.3GHz and future 5G destined 3.4GHz radio spectrum bands. All of the major mobile...
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Vodafone Claims First to Conduct UK 5G Mobile Trial at 3.4GHz
Mobile operator Vodafone has today claimed a “major milestone in UK telecommunications” by becoming the first in the country to test the new 3.4GHz radio spectrum band on a live 5G network, which ran...
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Ofcom Publish Final Results from the UK 4G and 5G Mobile Auction
As expected the UK telecoms regulator has today finalised precisely how much extra mobile spectrum has been won in the recent auction of the 4G friendly 2.3GHz and future 5G targeted 3.4GHz radio...
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Industry Says UK Gov and Regulation is Key Barrier to Full Fibre Rollout
A recent debate of the Digital Infrastructure Panel (hosted by law firm Herbert Smith Freehills), which included representatives from ISPs BT, Hyperoptic and Virgin Media, has highlighted government...
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Internet Users Only Keeping a UK Fixed Phone Line for Broadband
Do we still need a fixed line telephone (voice) service? A new ISPreview survey of 1,911 readers has found that only 14.5% still use a landline phone service for making most of their calls and 67.2%...
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Mobile Operator Three UK Preparing to Enter the Business Market
Reports indicate that consumer focused mobile operator Three UK (CK Hutchison) are going through an upgrade of their national network, which aside from laying the ground work for a future 5G service...
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