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BT Tells Regulator its £12.5bn Move to Buy EE Will “Enhance” Competition

18th May, 2015 (10 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has today submitted its official response to the Competition and Markets Authority‘s (CMA) review of their £12.5bn move to buy mobile operator EE. As part of this the operator has said that its acquisition would “enhance” rather than hurt competition in the UK telecoms market.

EE Raise Tablet Prices and Offer 100GB of FREE Mobile Data for 2 Months

18th May, 2015 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has announced that their standard tablet plans have increased in price by £1 per month, but as compensation all 4GEE Extra tablet plans will be reduced by £2 until 2nd June 2015. On top of that they’ve reintroduced the 4G pay-as-you-go limited edition SIM, which gives you 100GB of Mobile Broadband data free for 2 months.

EE UK Predicts Mobile Broadband Users to Eat 1 Exabyte Per Year by 2018

13th May, 2015 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE reports that their 4G (LTE) customers have now passed the magic 10 million mark and related Mobile Broadband traffic has surpassed 3G, with rural areas seeing some of the best benefits. 4G usage in rural parts of Scotland has increased 60%, usage in rural Wales is up 50% and data in the South West of England was up 49%.

FreedomPop Brings FREE 4G Mobile Calls, Texts and Internet SIM to the UK

13th May, 2015 (8 Comments)

Fancy a completely free 4G mobile SIM that comes with 200MB of data, 200 texts and 200 minutes of voice calls per month? A new operator called FreedomPop, which started in the USA with a similar product, has announced that it will be doing the same for the United Kingdom from this summer.

No Signal from Three UK Home Signal Mobile Booster for Several Days

6th May, 2015 (2 Comments)

Apparently some customers who make use of Three UK’s Home Signal device, which harnesses your fixed line broadband connection via Femtocell technology to boost indoor mobile coverage, complain that they’ve not been able to get a working signal from it for several days.

BT Shareholders Approve GBP12.5bn Acquisition of Mobile Operator EE

30th April, 2015 (1 Comment)

In an entirely unsurprising development the shareholders of BT have today voted in favour of the operators £12.5bn move to buy mobile operator EE from current owners Deutsche Telekom (Germany) and Orange (France), although the final regulatory approval will take a lot longer to achieve and may extract concessions.

Ovum Predicts Mobile Operators Could Switch Off 2G and 3G by 2020

30th April, 2015 (8 Comments)

Telecoms analysts at Ovum have claimed that Mobile Network Operators, such as Three UK, Vodafone, EE and O2 in the United Kingdom, could potentially cut costs and adopt a pure 4G (LTE) focus by switching off their legacy 2G and 3G platforms by 2020. But it might not be quite so simple.

Good Growth Pushes EE to 884000 Home Broadband Users as 4G Hits 9.3M

27th April, 2015 (0 Comments)

The impending acquisition of EE by BT isn’t putting a dampener on the operators growth, with their latest Q1-2015 results showing a +50k increase in fixed line home broadband subscribers to total 884,000 (the best growth yet; up from +41k in Q4 2014, +18k in Q3-2014 and +30k in Q2-2014). Meanwhile 4G coverage and uptake is also booming.

Hmm.. Angie Pledges 10Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband to 3 Million UK Premises

24th April, 2015 (18 Comments)

Who? A strange and unexpected press release just crossed our desk, which stems from a company in the Netherlands that we’ve not heard of before, Angie Communications. Essentially they plan to “aggressively” rollout a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 3 million premises and make “4.5G” and 5G mobile broadband available to 95% and 90% of the UK respectively by 2021.

The Fastest Mobile Broadband Operator for London City Airport

24th April, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study has attempted to identify the fastest UK Mobile Broadband operators for travellers making use of London City Airport (LCY). Unsurprisingly EE came top, delivering the fastest median download and upload speeds at 16.1Mbps and 26.2Mbps respectively.

Rural Issues Cause UK Fall from 3rd to 5th in Huawei’s Connectivity Index

23rd April, 2015 (2 Comments)

The annual Global Connectivity Index from Huawei, which claims to offer a quantitative assessment of connectivity and its value from both national and industrial perspectives, reports that the United Kingdom has dropped to 5th place due to weaknesses with “low cable infrastructure” and rural Mobile Broadband coverage.

Three UK See 4G Speeds Hit 17.8Mbps Ahead of 800MHz and VoLTE Rollout

23rd April, 2015 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that the average 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband download speeds on their network are now reaching 17.8Mbps (up from 10.7Mbps in December 2014) and that the roll-out of Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and low frequency 800MHz spectrum will begin during September 2015.

Wireless ISP Relish Predicts UK Landlines to be “Virtually Extinct” by 2025

21st April, 2015 (11 Comments)

A recently published White Paper by the 4G fixed wireless broadband ISP Relish (UK Broadband Ltd.), which offers speeds of up to 50Mbps across parts of central London, has rather shakily predicted that fixed landlines will be “non-existent” in the office and will be “virtually extinct” in the home come 2025.

UK Mobile Operator EE Launches Seamless WiFi Calling Service

7th April, 2015 (14 Comments)

EE has beaten Vodafone to the punch by becoming the first primary Mobile Network Operator in the United Kingdom to launch a practically seamless WiFi calling service, which means that customers who can’t get a good cell signal can still make calls.. so long as there’s a usable WiFi network nearby.

Another Blow for the UK Gov’s Mobile Coverage Plans – No Tall Masts

26th March, 2015 (12 Comments)

The Government’s agreement with mobile operators (i.e. Three UK, O2, EE and Vodafone) to extend the geographic coverage of 2G (voice and text) networks from 80% today to 90% by 2017 (the target for 3G and 4G is 85%) appears to have suffered another blow after operators were warned that they might not be allowed to build taller masts.

BT Goes Quad Play and Launch Cheap UK Consumer 4G Mobile Service

25th March, 2015 (16 Comments)

BT has today taken the wraps off their new 4G consumer mobile phone service (BTMobile), which is underpinned by EE’s national network and will turn the United Kingdom’s largest telecoms operator into a quad-play monster. The new SIM-Only tariffs start from just £5 a month for their existing broadband customers (prices rise by £5 for non-BT subscribers), which is all good unless you demand data Tethering.

UPDATE Three UK Finalises Deal to Buy O2 from Telefonica for £10.25bn

24th March, 2015 (7 Comments)

The parent company of mobile operator Three UK, Hutchison Whampoa, has confirmed that they’ve finally reached a “definitive agreement” to buy O2 UK from debt-laden Telefonica for the previously touted price of £10.25 Billion (cash). But we’re still not sure where the long-term advantage can be found.