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Big Change Unlikely as Ofcom Consult on UK Mobile Operator Licence Fee Hike

19th February, 2015 (1 Comment)

The national telecoms regulator has today carried out its promise to once again review the plans for a massive hike in annual licence fees on the 900MHz and 1800MHz radio spectrum bands, but they’ve also been quick to warn that the recent coverage agreement between mobile operators and the Government is “unlikely to have a material effect“.

EE UK Commit £1.5bn to Expand and Upgrade their 4G Mobile Network

11th February, 2015 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator EE, which is currently in the process of being gobbled up by BT (here), has today announced that it will be investing a total of £1.5bn between now and 2017 in order to expand the coverage and speed of their 4G (LTE) based mobile network. The move also includes ensuring that 90% of the UK can access their “double speed” service.

EE and Three UK Top RootMetrics H2 2014 Study of Mobile Network Quality

10th February, 2015 (5 Comments)

RootMetrics has today published their report into mobile operator performance across the United Kingdom for the second half of 2014, which sees O2, EE, Three UK and Vodafone battle it out over areas including service reliability, call / text performance and Mobile Broadband speeds.

Netradar Finds UK Mobile Internet Speeds Slower than Most of Europe

9th February, 2015 (2 Comments)

Measurements of mobile Internet speed taken during the course of last year by UK and EU users of the free Netradar.org app have shown that the United Kingdom scored an average download rate of 5Mbps (Megabits per second), which places us below France (8.4Mbps), Germany (6.1Mbps), Italy (5.4Mbps) and many others. In addition, Three UK delivered the fastest speeds for Britain.

BT Finalises GBP12.5bn Acquisition of EE’s Mobile Network in the UK

5th February, 2015 (35 Comments)

After several weeks of exclusive talks BT has today announced that they’ve “agreed definitive” terms to acquire national mobile operator EE for £12.5bn, which is to be payable as a combination of cash and new BT ordinary shares issued to both of EE’s joint owners Deutsche Telekom (Germany) and Orange (France).

UK Mobile Data Traffic Tops 0.9 ExaBytes in 2014 as Avg Speeds Hit 2.5Mb

3rd February, 2015 (0 Comments)

Cisco has today published their annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2014 – 2019), which reported that mobile data traffic in the United Kingdom reached 74.2 PetaBytes (PB) per month in 2014 (0.9 Exabytes per year) and this will rise to 634.4PB by 2019 (7.6 Exabytes per year). Internet video traffic continues to be the main driver.

Ofcom Tweak Commits Mobile Operators to 90% UK Landmass Coverage

2nd February, 2015 (14 Comments)

As expected Ofcom has started to put the recent coverage agreement between Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and the Government into practice by introducing a new licence variation(s) that commits Three UK, EE, O2 and Vodafone to provide voice coverage across 90% of the United Kingdom’s landmass by the end of 2017.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Confirms Quad Play Bundle with O2 Based Mobile

29th January, 2015 (2 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today announced a new multi-year wholesale partnership with mobile operator Telefonica UK (O2) that will allow the ISP to offer a new range quad-play bundles to their customers, including 2G, 3G and 4G (Mobile Broadband) based mobile tariffs.

Confirmed – Three UK Enters Exclusive Talks to Buy O2 for £10.25bn

23rd January, 2015 (7 Comments)

The Spanish owner of mobile network operator O2 UK, Telefonica, has confirmed that they’ve entered into an “exclusivity agreement” with Hutchison Whampoa (the parent of rival mobile operator Three UK) to buy the provider for £10.25bn in cash. Unless the talks fail, which at this stage seems unlikely, then Three UK will ultimately end up merging with O2.

Blow for UK Mobile Coverage Plans as Landowners Win Access Charges Fight

22nd January, 2015 (1 Comment)

The Country Land and Business Association, which represents thousands of landowners from across England and Wales, appears to have partially won its recent complaint against the Government’s proposal to regulate the price that landowners can charge telecoms operators for access to their land.

UPDATE EE UK Suffers Mobile Data Network Wobble

22nd January, 2015 (0 Comments)

Customers of EE’s mobile network, especially those trying to access Mobile Broadband (data) services, are reporting sporadic connectivity problems from various locations across the United Kingdom; although most appear to be centred on London (probably due to its huge population)

UK Based TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps mmW Wireless Broadband

22nd January, 2015 (1 Comment)

A team of international scientists working out of Lancaster University in England have officially kicked off a new consortium called TWEETHER, which aims to harness the millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum (specifically 92-95GHz) in order to develop a new wireless network that could offer economical broadband connectivity with a capacity up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second).

UPDATE Vodafone Unveil Last 40 Rural Communities for 3G Mobile Broadband

21st January, 2015 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today reportedly announced the final batch of 40 rural communities across the United Kingdom that will soon start to receive improved 3G based mobile broadband and voice network coverage via their on-going Rural Open Sure Signal project. But where are they?

London 4G Wireless ISP Relish Says Brits Underestimate Landline Costs

20th January, 2015 (1 Comment)

Relish, a London-based and focused 4G fixed wireless superfast broadband ISP, has continued to highlight the high cost of landline phone rental by claiming that 30% of UK adults do not know how much they are spending on their landline and estimate their monthly expenditure at £11.39 (well below the £16.77 average of the big ISPs).

EE Incorrectly Charged VAT for Non-EU Mobile Broadband Roaming

19th January, 2015 (0 Comments)

Approximately 0.5% of EE’s total customer base in the United Kingdom, specifically those who used Mobile Broadband / Mobile Data while roaming outside of Europe between October 2012 and October 2014, will received a credit refund of between £2 and £80 per customer after the operator wrongly charged Value Added Tax (VAT) on their Data Roaming bundle.

Ofcom Open 5G Mobile Broadband Consultation on Spectrum Above 6GHz

16th January, 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has started a new consultation that seeks feedback on whether radio spectrum bands above 6GHz could be used for the future 5th generation (5G) of ultrafast Mobile Broadband connectivity, which many predict will be able to offer peak / shared performance of up to or beyond 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) by around 2020.

Vodafone UK Says You Don’t Need More Than 20Mbps on a Mobile

13th January, 2015 (9 Comments)

The CEO of mobile operator Vodafone UK, Jeroen Hoencamp, has moved to defend the performance of their 4G (LTE) Mobile Broadband network by saying that Internet “speed only gets you so far” and “the reality is that you don’t currently need anything beyond 20Mbps [Megabits per second] on a mobile device“.