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Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has announced that it intends to launch a new 4G based Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Mobile Broadband service this summer and that its recently announced plan to double their network speeds up to 80Mbps (here) will begin “within weeks“.
Following a number of trials at800.tv (DMSL), which is funded by £180m from mobile network operators, has predicted that just 90,000 homes in the United Kingdom will see their Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV) services being disrupted by the new generation of 4G based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz band.
Internet provider PlusNet has enhanced its existing promotion of half price broadband and calls by extending the length of their offer from 9 to 12 months. Likewise their superfast fibre broadband (FTTC) packages will also change from 3 months half price to 6 months.
The Warwickshire County Council (WCC) has today signed a new state aid supported deal with BT that will see the operators superfast fibre broadband (25Mbps+) services being deployed to cover 91% of local premises by Spring 2016.
Fixed wireless ISP Kijoma Broadband, which last year announced that its network would be expanded into parts of Staffordshire (England), has confirmed that it’s submitted an application to build a new mast that would cover the village of Anslow.
The UK government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, has called in major mobile operators, broadband ISPs and online content giants (BT, Sky, Facebook, Twitter etc.) to a special summit on 17th June 2013 where she intends to urge stricter censorship of internet websites and services that distribute “harmful material”.