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GWS Reveals Top Most Reliable UK Mobile Operators in 32 Cities

25th April, 2018 (0 Comments)

A new study conducted by Global Wireless Solutions, which combined controlled network testing with an analysis of consumer behaviour and expectations of performance, has revealed which UK cities deliver the most reliable mobile network per operator. It’s good news for O2 and bad for Vodafone.

EE UK Boost 4G Mobile Coverage in Scotland with 90 New Masts

25th April, 2018 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has completed the construction of its 90th brand new mast site in Scotland within the last 12 months, which has helped to boost their 4G landmass (geographic) network coverage in the country to more than 75%. By comparison EE’s overall landmass coverage of the UK is 90%.

Which? 2018 UK Mobile Network Survey Ranks UW and Giffgaff Top

24th April, 2018 (3 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published the results from their latest 2018 consumer survey of Mobile Network Operators (MNO), which ranked Utility Warehouse top with a customer score of 84% and they were followed by giffgaff (81%). Sadly Vodafone retains the bottom spot.

Mobile Operator Three UK Preparing to Enter the Business Market

24th April, 2018 (6 Comments)

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 will also pave the way for a move into business connectivity (beyond existing small business tariffs).

Internet Users Only Keeping a UK Fixed Phone Line for Broadband

24th April, 2018 (3 Comments)

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% said they’d get rid of it if the service wasn’t still needed by most ISPs for home broadband.

UK and EU Mobile Broadband Speeds Fall While Roaming Q1 2018

19th April, 2018 (5 Comments)

Ookla has published a new table, which reveals how much your Mobile Broadband (3G / 4G) speeds could drop within the EU when you roam outside of your home country. For example, the average local mobile download speed in the UK is 26.16Mbps but this drops by -19.4% (21.08Mbps) when roaming.

8 of the Most Popular UK Rail Transit Lines Ranked by Mobile Quality

11th April, 2018 (2 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study has ranked eight of the United Kingdom’s most popular rail transit lines by the quality of their on-board Mobile (3G and 4G) network connectivity. Overall those taking a train via the ‘London Paddington to Reading‘ route are likely to have the best experience.

Q1 2018 OpenSignal Report Awards EE as Best UK Mobile Operator

5th April, 2018 (0 Comments)

The latest Q1 2018 report from OpenSignal, which used crowd-sourced data from 61,121 devices (Smartphones etc.) and 890 million tests to reveal how 4G and 3G based Mobile network availability and data speeds vary across the United Kingdom, has once again seen EE sweep the awards.

Fastest 3G and 4G Mobile Operators for England, Scotland and Wales

20th March, 2018 (6 Comments)

A new crowd-sourced study of 3G and 4G based Mobile Broadband performance from Tutela has revealed how Three UK, O2, Vodafone and EE (BT) perform across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as generally for the whole of the United Kingdom. As usual EE retains the overall top spot.

EE UK Fills 12000km2 of UK Notspots for Mobile Network Coverage

19th March, 2018 (22 Comments)

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 coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of December 2020 (currently 90%).

Three UK Sees Mobile Broadband Data Use Per Customer Hit 6.8GB

16th March, 2018 (16 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today published their full year results for 2017, which among other things revealed that monthly Mobile Broadband (3G / 4G) data usage per customer grew by 7% during 2017 to 6.8GB (GigaBytes) and indoor population coverage is now 98.5% (up from 95% last year).

Ofcom Probe Three UK and Vodafone Over Net Neutrality Concern

6th March, 2018 (5 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today opened a new investigation to examine whether some of the new 4G mobile plans and add-ons being offered by Three UK and Vodafone are compliant with the EU’s new Net Neutrality rules, which are designed to protect the open internet from abuse.

New H2 2017 Mobile Network Study Ranks EE and Three UK Top

20th February, 2018 (14 Comments)

RootMetrics has today released their H2 2017 study of 4G mobile network performance across 16 of the United Kingdom’s most populated metropolitan markets (cities), which predictably scored EE as the best overall network operator and they’re followed in second place by Three UK.

Study Claims UK Mobile Users Wasting 3.4GB of Data Every Month

14th February, 2018 (7 Comments)

A new online survey of 5,603 UK adults has found that the average (mean) amount of Mobile Broadband data included with a Mobile plan is 5.9GB (GigaBytes) and yet subscribers only consume an average of 2.5GB, which suggests that some could save money by choosing a cheaper tariff.

Q4 2017 Map of Europe and UK Countries by Mobile Data Speed

2nd February, 2018 (5 Comments)

The latest Q4 2017 crowd-sourced data from RFBenchmark has compared various European countries by their Mobile Broadband (3G/4G) performance, which found that the UK delivered an average download speed of 16.9Mbps (7.85Mbps upload) and latency of 101ms (milliseconds).

Ookla 2018 Study Awards the UK Fastest Mobile and Broadband ISPs

31st January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has today published their annual ‘Speedtest Market Report‘ for the United Kingdom. Overall the country ranked 29th in the world for average fixed line broadband ISP speeds (Virgin Media is the fastest) and just 46th for mobile (EE is the fastest).

Tutela Name Fastest UK Mobile Broadband Operators for Q4 2017

24th January, 2018 (4 Comments)

Mobile operators EE and Vodafone have top of Tutela Technologies latest crowd-sourced study of Mobile Network Operator (MNO) performance in the United Kingdom for Q4 2017, which focused heavily on 4G and 3G based Mobile Broadband speeds and latency etc.

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