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Vodafone UK Joins 3 in Delaying its 4G Mobile Broadband Launch

22nd May, 2013 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator Vodafone has warned investors in the United Kingdom that its planned June 2013 launch of superfast 4G (LTE) based mobile broadband services in the 800MHz and 2.6GHz band could now face several months of additional delay.

RootMetrics Name EE Fastest for Mobile Broadband in Manchester UK

20th May, 2013 (3 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.

UPD London Tests Find Fears of 4G Knocking Out TV Signals are Overblown

15th May, 2013 (2 Comments)

The at800.tv (DMSL) group, which is jointly funded by £180m from UK mobile network operators, reports that preliminary results from 170,000 homes in South East London (England) have identified NO cases where 4G (LTE) based mobile services in the 800MHz band have disrupted terrestrial TV services.

EE and Three UK Named Fastest Mobile Broadband Operators in Hull

14th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband performance in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) has revealed that EE was the fastest mobile operator with an average download speed of 9.6Mbps and an upload of 5.5Mbps (Megabits per second). Three UK became the distant runner-up with O2 and Vodafone delivering the slowest performance.

UPD £150m Contract to Boost UK Mobile Broadband Coverage Won by Arqiva

13th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

A contract for the £150 million Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which was established as part of the 4G auction process to help build new mobile masts for those who live in areas of poor or non-existent mobile coverage, has been won by Arqiva.

SKY Sale Triggers Exodus of O2 UK Home Broadband Subscribers

8th May, 2013 (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.

England Hopes to Boost 4G Mobile Rollout via New Planning Consultation

7th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a new Technical Consultation that is designed to “boost the roll-out” of new 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in England by softening the existing planning regulations to allow for easier building of new masts and antennas.

Brighton UK Homes Join Trial to Help Test for 4G and TV Interference

2nd May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Some 80,000 premises in Brighton (England) have joined at800.tv‘s (DMSL) trial to test whether or not the new generation of 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz band will disrupt Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) services. But the new trial will be a little bit different.

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

29th April, 2013 (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.

PAC Report Casts Doubt Over Broadband and Other UK Infrastructure Projects

29th April, 2013 (4 Comments)

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is appointed by the House of Commons to examine public expenditure, has criticised the government’s £310bn National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) for being a “list of projects” that lacks a “real plan with a strategic vision and clear priorities“.

ISP EE UK Nudges Past 694K Home Broadband and 318K 4G Customers

23rd April, 2013 (1 Comment)

The latest Q1-2013 financial results from EE (Orange UK and T-Mobile) have revealed that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base increased by just +1,000 in the quarter to total 694,000, while their 4G (LTE) based mobile subscribers grew from zero to 318,000 in the first five months since its launch.

UK Government Denies Superfast Broadband Targets Slipping to 2016

22nd April, 2013 (12 Comments)

The government’s Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey, has told the House of Commons that he still hopes 90% of the United Kingdom will have access to a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP by the end of 2015. But he admitted that they were still “actively looking at the options” for a post-2015 strategy.

EE UK Launch 150Mbps Capable 4G Mobile Broadband and WiFi USB Modem

20th April, 2013 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator EE, which recently announced that it would double its headline 4G based Mobile Broadband speeds up to 80Mbps (here), has now launched one of the United Kingdom’s first LTE Category 4 (150Mbps capable) based mobile WiFi modems (MiFi) – the Huawei E5776.

28000 UK Homes in Brentford and Isleworth to Test for 4G TV Interference

17th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

The at800.tv (DMSL) group, which was setup by UK mobile operators as part of a £180m effort to stop new 4G (LTE) based mobile services in the 800MHz band from knocking out digital terrestrial TV (Freeview) services, has announced a third interference trial in Brentford and Isleworth (London Borough of Hounslow).

National Audit Office Probes the UK 4G Mobile Spectrum Auction

15th April, 2013 (3 Comments)

The National Audit Office (NAO), which is responsible for scrutinising public spending on behalf of Parliament, has confirmed that it will investigate whether or not Ofcom’s underperforming auction of the 4G (LTE) based 800MHz and 2.6GHz mobile broadband spectrum has delivered “value-for-money“.

170,000 London UK Homes to Help Test for 4G TV Interference Woes

10th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

at800.tv (DMSL), which was setup by UK mobile operators to support homes that could lose their digital terrestrial TV services due to interference from 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz spectrum band, has announced that its first major urban test will take place in South East London from 15th April 2013.

EE UK Boost 4G Mobile Broadband Capacity for Top Speeds of 80Mbps

9th April, 2013 (16 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has announced that it will double the amount of 1800MHz radio spectrum bandwidth dedicated to its 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband network (from 10MHz to 20MHz at each cell), which will boost network capacity and could deliver headline speeds of 80Mbps (average speeds of 20Mbps).