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Three UK and EE Come Top in 2013 Mobile Broadband Road Trip Test

18th June, 2013 - 9:37 am (6 Comments)

Mobile operator’s Three UK and EE have come top in the latest annual study of roaming Mobile Broadband performance. Overall Three UK delivered the highest peak internet download speed of 8.66Mbps (Megabits per second), while EE delivered the best average speed of 3.43Mbps. But once again it’s bad news for Vodafone.

Orange UK Accused of Blocking YouTube on its Mobile Broadband Network

17th June, 2013 - 3:35 pm (1 Comment)

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has heavily criticised Orange UK (EE) for allegedly blocking access to Google’s hugely popular internet video streaming site YouTube through its child safety filtering service “Safeguard“, which is switched on by default.

O2 Wifi UK Expands FREE Wireless Hotspot Network to Canary Wharf

12th June, 2013 - 8:22 am (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK has announced the installation of its “fast, free, reliable and simple to use” public wireless internet (wifi) hotspots to cover Canary Wharf, which is one of London’s major business and shopping districts located in Tower Hamlets.

UPD O2 UK Scrap Free BT Hotspots in Favour of its Own WiFi Network

31st May, 2013 - 2:27 am (5 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK has abandoned their existing agreement with BTOpenzone (BTWiFi), which gave their customers access to thousands of BT’s additional national UK hotspots, in favour of their own O2Wifi network (8,000 free hotspots).

Sky Broadband UK Prep IPv6 But Scrap Annex M for BE Broadband Users

30th May, 2013 - 8:04 am (2 Comments)

Sky Broadband’s (BSkyB) Director of Communications Products, Lyssa McGowan, last night held an “Ask the MD” session on BE Broadband’s forum that revealed a little more about the operators plans for BE and O2′s fixed line broadband customers. Some of the news was good, some bad.

O2 UK Accused of Political Censorship by Male Human Rights Websites

28th May, 2013 - 2:20 am (8 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK has been accused of unfair “sexism and political censorship” after its mobile broadband platform was found to still be blocking over 100 websites that promote equality for men and or which have dedicated themselves to helping male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Fluidata to Provide O2 UK with New Core Network for WiFi and Extra Capacity

22nd May, 2013 - 12:22 pm (0 Comments)

Business ISP Fluidata has today signed a new “multi-million pound contract” with O2 UK that will supply the mobile operator with a new core network and enough “last mile” data connectivity and capacity to help support the expansion of its wireless internet (wifi) hotspots across the country.

RootMetrics Name EE Fastest for Mobile Broadband in Manchester UK

20th May, 2013 - 3:50 pm (2 Comments)

A new study from RootMetrics has named EE as the fastest mobile broadband operator in Manchester (England) after it blitzed past rivals, including distant runner-up Three UK, to record an average download speed of 15.2Mbps (Megabits per second) and uploads of 9.4Mbps.

OFT Rubber Stamps O2 UK and Sky Broadband Fixed Line ISP Merger

17th May, 2013 - 1:03 pm (0 Comments)

As widely expected the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today formally “cleared” Sky Broadband’s (BSkyB) £180m+ acquisition of O2 UK and sibling BE Broadband’s fixed line internet and phone customers.

Sky Broadband Tells Staff to Handle Fear of Rupert Murdoch with Sensitivity

15th May, 2013 - 2:43 am (6 Comments)

Some of O2 UK’s fixed line home broadband and phone customers are reportedly refusing to be shifted onto the network of new owner Sky Broadband (BSkyB) because it’s partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s infamous News Corporation.

Big UK ISPs Should Make Critical Support Contacts Easier to Find

13th May, 2013 - 2:20 am (6 Comments)

At some point nearly all of us, for good or ill, will need to contact our broadband ISP or phone provider but how hard is it to find the correct details and what sort of support services are on offer? ISPreview.co.uk took a long look at ten of the UK’s best known providers to see how they compared.

SKY Sale Triggers Exodus of O2 UK Home Broadband Subscribers

8th May, 2013 - 10:10 am (3 Comments)

The latest quarterly results from O2 UK (BE Broadband) appear to suggest that the ISPs fixed line home broadband customers have been climbing over themselves to escape the forthcoming migration to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) as subscriber figures fell by a staggering -40,700 in Q1-2013 to total 519,400.

UPDATE2 ISP O2 UK Claim Home Broadband and Phone Sale to Sky is Done

1st May, 2013 - 12:59 pm (19 Comments)

Customers of O2 / BE Broadband’s fixed line home broadband and phone service have this week been told that the £180m+ sale to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) “has now gone through” and related subscribers are thus “officially with Sky“. But the actual migration to Sky will not get underway until this Autumn 2013.

BT Wholesale and O2 UK Sign Deal to Boost 4G Mobile Data Capacity

29th April, 2013 - 9:59 am (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has signed a new ten-year deal that will see BTWholesale work to support the imminent introduction of faster 4G (LTE) based mobile broadband services for millions of the operators customers by building a new high capacity transmission network.