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New Small Cells in Chester to Boost Mobile Connections, O2 UK First to Adopt

21st November, 2024 (5 Comments)

Residents, visitors and businesses in the Cathedral City of Chester (Cheshire, England) may be pleased to learn that local 4G and possibly 5G mobile (mobile broadband) connections are set for a boost with the deployment of a new small cell network from Ontix, which follows a recent survey of local coverage by consultancy FarrPoint.

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Multiboost Gain Ofcom UK Approval for Indoor Mobile Signal Boosters

21st November, 2024 (4 Comments)

Consumers may like to know that Ofcom’s earlier move to soften their requirements for licence exempt indoor or in-vehicle “mobile phone repeaters” (here) is starting to bear fruit. Multiboost has just announced that their ‘PRO’ kit is now fully compliant with the regulator’s standards, which means more choice for homes and businesses.

EE UK to Refresh Mobile Roaming Plans and Scraps Old Products UPDATE

21st November, 2024 (45 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has begun to inform their UK customers, specifically those with inclusive roaming, that their “current roaming products will be removed” from 25th December 2024. The plan is to replace them with new roaming plans, due for launch on 4th Dec 2024, but this has left some existing customers confused about the impact.

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Mobile Operators Fear UK 5G Rollout At Risk from Dispute with Leasing Firm

19th November, 2024 (10 Comments)

Mobile network operators (e.g. EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK) appear to be increasingly raising concerns over the impact that leasing firm AP Wireless is having on their already sluggish deployment of 5G based mobile broadband technology. This is said to be pushing up their build costs and thus allegedly threatening the viability of future deployments.

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Streetwave to Conduct County-Wide Mobile Coverage Study of Argyll and Bute

19th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

The Argyll and Bute Council (ABC) in Scotland has joined forces with network analyst firm Streetwave and the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) to conduct the “first county-wide mobile coverage survey” in Scotland, which will mirror similar studies that are already being conducted across other parts of the UK.

iD Mobile Doubles Data on UK Mobile Plans for Black Friday

19th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

Low-cost mobile network operator iD Mobile (Currys), which harnesses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G platform under a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has launched a range of Black Friday promotions for new customers that doubles the included data (mobile broadband) allowances across all of their 1, 12 and 24-month SIM Only mobile plans.

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O2 UK Boost 4G and 5G Network Capacity for 850 Wolverhampton Postcodes

19th November, 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to improve their 4G and 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which since the start of 2024 has seen network capacity upgraded in 850 postcodes across the area.

O2 UK Confirm End Date for PAYG Mobile Broadband and iPad SIMs

16th November, 2024 (8 Comments)

A couple of weeks ago ISPreview reported on how mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) had withdrawn their Pay As You Go (PAYG) Data and iPad SIMs (mobile broadband) from sale to new customers (here). But the big change this week is that they’ve now informing existing customers of their plan to close the service by 31st January 2025.

Seven More 4G Mobile Mast Upgrades Go Live Across Rural Wales

14th November, 2024 (6 Comments)

The UK government (DSIT) has this morning announced that seven more 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have gone live across North, South West and West Wales as part of the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. The work will benefit parts of Bontddu, Llanelltyd, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Penmaenpool, Tabor, Snowdonia National Park and Bontgoch.

Ycorp Launch New Data-only eSIM Driven UK Mobile Operator Ymobile

13th November, 2024 (20 Comments)

A new UK mobile operator called Ymobile (Ycorp) has officially launched today and claims to be the United Kingdom’s “first data-led, eSIM MVNO“, all while claiming to offer users a “simpler, more streamlined and environmentally friendly” alternative to traditional mobile networks.

Mobile Operator Smarty Launches UK Black Friday Discounts

12th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join Smarty, which is a virtual mobile operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s national network, may like to know that they’ve kicked off their Black Friday deals, such as by doubling the data on their £10 per month 40GB plan to 80GB and offering 15GB for £7 per month (an extra 7GB).

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O2 Switch On First Publicly Funded UK 4G Mobile Mast for Total Not Spot Areas

12th November, 2024 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today marked an important milestone by switching on the UK’s first publicly funded “Total Not Spot” (TNS) 4G (mobile broadband) mast site on South Uist in Scotland, which forms part of the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme and its efforts to extend mobile coverage into remote rural areas.

Ofcom Move Forward with UK 5G Mobile Auction for 26GHz and 40GHz

11th November, 2024 (8 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published the final draft auction regulations for its plan to auction off a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum frequency in the 26GHz and 40GHz bands, which will be used by mobile operators to deliver faster 5G (mobile broadband) services – mostly in urban areas.

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O2 and Vodafone UK Users Suffer Month of Poor Signal in Cullingworth

9th November, 2024 (12 Comments)

Customers of mobile operators O2 and Vodafone in the West Yorkshire (England) village of Cullingworth have struggled to get a usable network service for over a month after one of Cornerstone’s (CTIL) local masts suffered a power cut. But a “safety related defect on the structure” appears to be delaying repairs.

Three UK Launch Black Friday Discount on 4G and 5G Home Broadband

8th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has become the latest telecoms provider to introduce some big Black Friday discounts, which starts today with their 4G and 5G powered unlimited Three Home Broadband packages that have just been given a price cut on their monthly rental down to only £19 per month on a 24-month term (£28 on a 1-month term).

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BT Group See FTTP Broadband Cover 15.9 Million UK Premises as 5G Tops 80 Percent UPDATE

7th November, 2024 (29 Comments)

The BT Group has today published their latest biannual H1 FY25 results to Sept 2024, which reveals that Openreach’s UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network added 2.1 million premises to their coverage in H1 to cover 15.9m, while EE’s 5G mobile coverage increased to 80% of the population (up from 75% in H2 FY24). The fibre build rate has also been accelerated again.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Switches on First 5G Standalone Small Cells

6th November, 2024 (9 Comments)

After launching their commercial 5G Standalone (SA) mobile network during February 2024 (here), O2 (Virgin Media) has today followed that up by claiming to have become the “first UK operator to switch on 5G standalone small cells“. Customers in Birmingham city centre will be the first to benefit from the faster mobile broadband kit (up to 300Mbps).