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26th June, 2025 (17 Comments)
The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has today launched an overhauled mobile network coverage checker, which includes enhancements that are intended to better match people’s real-world experiences, particularly of modern 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) service performance and signal strength.
25th June, 2025 (13 Comments)
Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published an updated study that compares Vodafone and Three UK’s mobile broadband performance in terms of 4G Download Speed and “Excellent Consistent Quality“, which is intended to help provide an indication for how the recently completed merger might impact things.
24th June, 2025 (13 Comments)
A new study from SignalTracker, which operates a popular Android mobile app (but not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile phone reception, has compared the quality of Vodafone’s 5G between Birmingham and London to find that the former is falling considerably behind. Furthermore, 72% of tests on Vodafone’s flagship 5G plan were actually 4G quality.
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24th June, 2025 (4 Comments)
One of the problems that UK mobile network operators, like Vodafone (VodafoneThree), often have to contend with is the issue of ensuring that their land-based 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) antennas are precisely positioned in order to deliver the best signal. But satellite guided sensors are now being tested to help change that.
22nd June, 2025 (54 Comments)
Mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has revealed a little bit more information about how their new “Access to roam” feature will work. This will shortly become one of the first major benefits of their recently completed merger with Three UK (here and here) – allowing 27 million customers to roam across both networks at no extra cost.
21st June, 2025 (1 Comment)
ISPreview has today published our latest biannual study of how the United Kingdom’s broadband download and upload speeds have changed across the fastest nationally available fixed line ISPs, mobile network operators and Starlink (satellite) services since the end of 2024. But this time we’ve made some changes to the structure of our top lists.
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20th June, 2025 (6 Comments)
The UK Government has published its Infrastructure Strategy for the next 10 years – backed by £725bn in long-term funding for maintenance and major projects, which promises to “transform how infrastructure projects are planned and delivered” in order to “deliver stability, investment and national renewal“. And there’s some good news for broadband and mobile networks.
19th June, 2025 (6 Comments)
SIM-only mobile provider Spusu, which holds a virtual operator (MVNO) agreement via BT Wholesale to harness EE’s national 4G and 5G network, has celebrated their second year of operation in the United Kingdom by gifting 5GB (GigaBytes) of free data (mobile broadband) to “all its customers” for the remainder of June (except those with unlimited data, obviously).
18th June, 2025 (4 Comments)
Some customers of Three UK’s mobile network have, over the past hour, begun reporting to ISPreview (example) that they’re suffering a partial outage of the operator’s Voicemail (123) service. The issue does not appear to affect regular calls and is being reported from users in different parts of the country.
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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.
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.
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