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18th June, 2025 (2 Comments)
Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that – over the past 12-months – they’ve completed a project to upgrade the capacity of their 4G and 5G mobile services across “over” 3,000 postcodes in the city of Glasgow (Scotland), which should bring “faster” mobile broadband speeds and greater reliability to the area.
18th June, 2025 (4 Comments)
Network analyst firm Streetwave has today shared the results from a recent survey they conducted inside St Mary’s Hospital in London, which examined the signal coverage and data performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks – including EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2.
18th June, 2025 (2 Comments)
The Government (DSIT) has this morning announced that they’ve appointed Lesley Cowley OBE to be the new Chair of their broadband and mobile centric Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency. The development comes after former Chair, Simon Blagden, resigned from his position back in July 2024 (here) and was replaced by Hazel Hobbs (Interim Chair).
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10th June, 2025 (5 Comments)
Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that they’ve agreed a new partnership with UK-based quantum company, ORCA computing. The deal will see the network provider harnessing quantum technology to help them quickly map out the fastest and cheapest route when building and upgrading future mobile and fixed broadband networks.
10th June, 2025 (0 Comments)
The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has announced that they’ve appointed network analyst firm Streetwave to harness fleets of bin lorries to help “accurately” map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage and performance, which will focus on the North of Scotland (i.e. Moray, Aberdeenshire and Highland Council areas).
10th June, 2025 (5 Comments)
Mobile network operator Vodafone have announced that people in Belfast, Sheffield, Liverpool and Watford can now take advantage of their “try before you buy” style eSIM, which first went live in London last month (here). Consumers can try the operator’s service, free, for 7-days with 50GB of data (mobile broadband), 500 minutes and 500 texts – all without changing your number.
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9th June, 2025 (9 Comments)
A group of land and property owners, including the British Property Federation (BPF) and National Farmers Union (NFU) among them, have written a new letter that calls on the UK government to suspend earlier reforms that made it easier and cheaper for mobile and broadband operators to deploy their infrastructure on private land.
6th June, 2025 (11 Comments)
The mobile operator division of supermarket chain ASDA, which is powered by a virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Vodafone, has just launched a refreshed SIM-Only range with a reduced number of products, featuring reduced pricing across some of their key plans.
6th June, 2025 (19 Comments)
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband operators, has today proposed several priority recommendations to help address – as part of a Lords Select Committee inquiry – the gaps in critical broadband infrastructure that could be holding back home-based working.
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5th June, 2025 (14 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that new and upgrading customers on their ‘Pay Monthly Plus’ or ‘Ultimate Plan’ (phone, tablet, or SIM only) can make the most of any unused 4G or 5G data (mobile broadband) each month as it will now roll over to their following months’ airtime allowance.
5th June, 2025 (13 Comments)
Mobile network operator Vodafone has today launched a new 4G and 5G-ready mobile data (broadband) Travel eSIM service, which now extends to 206 destinations on 700 networks – supported by its GenAI system for customer service. But they’re still just one option in a growing sea of similar services, where standing out is difficult.
4th June, 2025 (2 Comments)
Customers of mobile and broadband ISP EE may like to know that the provider has today soft launched a new range of “exclusive” Nintendo Switch 2 bundles for users to add to their existing packages. The deals are set to become available via the operator’s EE Store tomorrow (5th June 2025) to coincide with global availability.
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30th May, 2025 (16 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) recently started emailing customers with handsets that are “not fully compatible with the UK’s 4G or 5G network” in order to notify them of their imminent 3G switch-off and offer an upgrade. But it’s worth noting that these notices will sometimes still get sent to people with technically compatible phones too, often leading to confusion.
28th May, 2025 (3 Comments)
Network analyst firm Streetwave has today shared the results from a recent survey they conducted, which examined the coverage and performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks – including EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2 – for people travelling on part of the Elizabeth Line (train) from Heathrow Airport (T 2/3) to Canary Wharf.
28th May, 2025 (0 Comments)
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has this morning revealed that a total of 50 government-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across England (9 masts), Wales (28) and Scotland (13) as part of the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. But 50 more will follow by March 2026.
27th May, 2025 (3 Comments)
State-owned broadband ISP and telecoms operator JT (Jersey Telecom), supported by technology partner Ericsson, have today confirmed that their c. £80 million project to deploy a new 5G based mobile network across Jersey (English Channel Island) has finally started to go live across its first area.
25th May, 2025 (4 Comments)
Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve won yet another contract to map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage and performance in England, which will this time see them testing along 6,000km of the road network within the four councils covered by the local authority’s Superfast South Yorkshire project.
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