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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.

7th May, 2013 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest Telecoms Market Data Tables Q4 2012 update and confirmed that the United Kingdom is now home to 22,174,000 21,680,000 fixed line broadband ISP connections (excluding corporate lines), which is up sharply by +659,000 +356,00 in the quarter.

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.

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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.

24th April, 2013 (4 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today issued a new “scoping document” (call for inputs) that will help to determine how existing radio spectrum in the UHF 700MHz (Digital TV) frequency band could be freed up for use by the next (5th) generation of future ultra-fast 5G based Mobile Broadband services.

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.

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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.

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“.

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).

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4th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

Fears that the new generation of superfast 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services, specifically those operating in the new 800MHz radio spectrum band, could leave more than 2 million homes in the United Kingdom at risk of losing their Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) service could prove to be unfounded.

4th April, 2013 (4 Comments)

It’s not 4G, it’s still 3G. The current generation of 4G (LTE) based superfast Mobile Broadband technology, which is presently being rolled out by operators in the United Kingdom, is technically still a 3G service because its internet speeds are too slow for it to be considered true 4G by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

28th March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has today issued a new rollout update that confirms how its 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network is now available to 50% of the UK population and the service has also gone live in a total of 50 towns and cities.

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27th March, 2013 (13 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK (Hutchison 3G UK), which still misleadingly insists upon calling its existing 3G based Mobile Broadband network “ultrafast” (fixed line ISPs tend to associate this with speeds of at least 100Mbps), has confirmed that it’s future 4G (LTE) product will be last to market when it arrives in Q4-2013.

22nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has confirmed that Mobile Network Operators (MNO) in the UK will soon be able to boost their Mobile Broadband network capacity, speeds, coverage and reliability by trading radio spectrum in the recently auctioned 4G (LTE) frequency bands of 800MHz and 2.6GHz.

21st March, 2013 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator EE has today announced the launch of both a 4G (LTE) based fixed wireless and mobile broadband network to serve rural homes and businesses in the Northern Fells area of Cumbria (England), which should receive average internet speeds of between 8-12Mbps (Megabits).

18th March, 2013 (2 Comments)

Ofcom’s publication of a final set of information about the recent 4G (LTE) spectrum auction (800MHz and 2.6GHz) at the end of last week has revealed that Mobile Networks Operators (MNO) made total “theoretical” bids of roughly £5.2 billion or around £3bn more than the actual total of £2.368bn.

15th March, 2013 (4 Comments)

Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited (DMSL), which was setup by mobile operators and the government to tackle any Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) related reception problems caused by interference from the new 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz band, have announced a pilot project to assess the issue in two towns.

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