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EE Home Broadband Growth Slows as UK 4G Coverage Hits 90 Percent

27th July, 2015 (3 Comments)

Mobile giant EE has reported their latest Q2 2015 results today, which revealed that the operators 4G network coverage had reached the 90% (population) milestone. Elsewhere their fixed line home broadband subscriber growth slowed to total 919,000 (up by +35K in Q2 vs +50K in Q1 and +44K in Q4 2014).

Poor Home WiFi Driving UK Home Internet Users to Mobile Broadband

22nd July, 2015 (4 Comments)

A new survey of 2,000 British adults from Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) has claimed that 1 in 4 people are using a Mobile Broadband (3G, 4G) connection at home in order to get online because their fixed line broadband fuelled home WiFi service is not good enough.

Ofcom UK Asks for Feedback on Full Separation of Openreach from BT

16th July, 2015 (41 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today published a new discussion document as part of their major Strategic Review of Digital Communications, which asks for feedback on the vexed question of whether Openreach should be completely separated from BT so as to boost UK broadband and phone competition.

Using Mobile Broadband While on Holiday is Growing More Common

14th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new AeroMobile and OnePoll survey of 4,250 adults in the UK, Germany and UAE between 25th March and 7th April 2015 has shed new light on how much people use their mobile phone while abroad versus when at home, which is despite the often significantly higher roaming charges that can be incurred.

Gov Sets Out Policy to Boost UK Mobile and Broadband Infrastructure

11th July, 2015 (4 Comments)

The Government has published a new document that very roughly sets out some of the legislation that will be made over the coming months and years in order to ensure the delivery of “world-class digital infrastructure in every part of the UK“. Some of the measures include plans to allow taller mobile masts and reduce fibre broadband deployment costs.

Look Out – Another UK Rural Broadband and Mobile Debate in Parliament

9th July, 2015 (8 Comments)

The Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP, Dr Dan Poulter (Conservative), has secured a 30 minute debate on the topic of poor rural broadband and mobile connectivity for Monday next week, which will no doubt rehash many of the familiar concerns over the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK project.

Scottish MP Calls for Easy UK Mobile Contract Exit in Areas of Poor Signal

6th July, 2015 (7 Comments)

A recently elected Highlands MP in Scotland, Drew Hendry (SNP), has called for a radical change in Ofcom’s regulatory policy that would allow UK mobile phone customers to exit their contracts without penalty if they suffered from poor or no signal coverage. But notspots or areas of weak signal are common.

UK ISP BT Spices Up Broadband and SIM-Only Mobile Bundles

1st July, 2015 (0 Comments)

BT has tweaked some of their Internet and mobile package features and prices by adding 1000 minutes to the BTMobile 2GB tariff, cutting the cost of their superfast Unlimited BTInfinity (FTTC) service to just £12.50 a month and returning Sainsbury’s vouchers worth £75 to £125 to their home broadband deals.

EE Once Again Named London’s Fastest Mobile Broadband Provider

25th June, 2015 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has come top in the latest RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) performance for the United Kingdom’s capital city of London, with the operator reporting the fastest median download speed of 25.4Mbps and the fastest uploads of 19.3Mbps. Vodafone was a distant 2nd.

Akamai Q1 2015 Report Sees UK Average Broadband Speeds Hit 11.6Mbps

24th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The latest global Q1 2015 State of the Internet report from Akamai has revealed that the world’s average fixed line broadband download speed is now 5Mbps (up by 10% since Q4 2014), while the United Kingdom increased by 6.7% in the quarter to 11.6Mbps. Overall the UK is now the 21st fastest in the world, which is down three places from the end of 2014.

ITU Hands Future 5G Mobile Broadband Tech a Target Speed of 20Gbps

23rd June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union has put a lid on the debate over the peak performance capabilities of future 5G (IMT-2020) based Mobile Broadband technology by defining its top speed as 20Gbps (Gigabits per second), which is 20 times faster than the 4G (IMT-Advanced) rate of 1Gbps.

Vodafone UK’s Rural Open Sure Signal Brings 3G Mobile to Broad Chalke

22nd June, 2015 (2 Comments)

Vodafone has announced that their Rural Open Sure Signal (Femtocell) technology has been expanded to help the isolated “not-spot” community of Broad Chalke in Wiltshire (England) to receive a 3G based Mobile Broadband and voice service.

EU Says Governments Can’t Force Universe Mobile Broadband Coverage

19th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

Efforts by the Government to force UK mobile operators into offering universal coverage have been dealt a blow after the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled that such a legally binding Universal Service Obligation (USO) cannot, under current EU rules, be forced upon providers.

O2 UK to Deploy New 100Gigabit Backbone Network to Boost Capacity

17th June, 2015 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2, which is currently in the process of being gobbled by the parent of Three UK for £10.25bn (here), has picked Ciena’s 6500 converged packet optical solutions to help it roll-out a new 100G (Gigabits) based backbone network around major cities, including London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Liverpool.

WiFi Networks to Carry 60 Percent of Mobile Data Traffic by 2019

16th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new report from Juniper Research has predicted that Mobile Network Operators (MNO) will offload 60% of their Smartphone and Tablet based Mobile Broadband (3G, 4G) data traffic to WiFi networks by 2019 (equivalent to 115,000 Petabytes), which is up almost four-fold from 30,000PB this year.

British Bankers Association Demands Better Universal Broadband and Mobile

15th June, 2015 (25 Comments)

The British Bankers Association has called on the Government to invest more money into delivering universal broadband and mobile connectivity to plug not-spots and thus allow more customers to take advantage of mobile and Internet banking, which is becoming increasingly popular.

Gov Consultation Opens to Improve UK Mobile Coverage on Trains

12th June, 2015 (3 Comments)

Mobile reception when on-board one of the United Kingdom’s many train services is, more often than not, a mixed bag where patches of good reception can quickly evaporate into nothing to interrupt your entertainment or work flow. As such the Department for Transport has launched a new consultation with the aim of finding a solution.