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Mobile network operator EE UK has today officially informed us that they’ve launched a refreshed range of Pay As You Go (PAYG) packages, which they claim will offer customers better value and improved data allowances (up to 125GB), with a variety of new customer benefits.
Consultancy firm FarrPoint has today posted the results of a recent survey they conducted alongside the Connecting Cheshire (Digital Cheshire) partnership to measure 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage across the region’s “main transport routes” (i.e. motorways, A and B roads), which reveals a mixed picture of network reach.
The High Court (King’s Bench Divison) has once again blocked a questionable crowd-funded legal challenge by the Action Against 5G campaign, which had been attempting to disrupt the UK rollout of 5G (mobile broadband) over fears that the government was being “unlawful” in “failing to protect the public from the health risks from 5G.“
Alternative network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today revealed that they’ve managed to grow their customer base to 10,000. The figure reflects about 10% of their 100,000 premises (Feb 2023 data) strong network coverage across 29 locations, which is up from 50,000 premises in July 2022.
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that they will release a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum frequency across the 26GHz and 40GHz bands for use by ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) technology, which could potentially make multi-gigabit mobile data speeds a reality.
Customers of broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) can now harness their ‘Priority‘ access to special offers by gaining free “Early Access” to the closed Diablo IV Beta (popular video game) test, which they say can normally only be enjoyed by pre-ordering the game (RRP from: £59.99).
Broadband ISP Brsk has today announced that the UK coverage of their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which spans across parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands in England, has grown from 100,000 premises passed in November 2022 to 150,000 today.
A new report has been published that provides a useful independent assessment of how big – in terms of network size (coverage footprint) – the top 10 alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP networks in the UK have become (excluding Openreach), which we’ve compared against the official coverage claims below.