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Smarty Named the Best UK Mobile Operator in Which? Survey

23rd April, 2022 (22 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has just published the results of its latest survey, which claims to reveal the best and worst UK mobile operators. Overall the four primary operators – O2 (VMO2), EE (BT), Vodafone and Three UK – were “outperformed” by smaller virtual networks, such as Smarty, Giffgaff, Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile etc.

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Cheapest UK 4G and 5G Unlimited Mobile Data Plans Compared – 2022

18th April, 2022 (35 Comments)

Over the past few years’ we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of UK mobile operators offering unlimited data plans, most of which have sprung up alongside the advent of the latest 5G based mobile broadband technologies. Today we take a quick look to see what you can get across the market.

Three UK See Record Mobile Data Traffic of 1 Terabits Per Second UPDATE

8th April, 2022 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today published their new ‘Mobile Britain’ report, which summarises key statistics from their network and reveals that mobile broadband (data) traffic hit an all-time high of “1 tbps (terabyte per second)” on Tuesday night – between 21:15 and 21:30 (they actually mean Terabits).

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First Milestone of 4G Rollout on London Underground Completes

7th April, 2022 (10 Comments)

Infrastructure firm BAI Communications (BAI) has announced the completion of the first milestone of its rollout of 4G and 5G-ready mobile (mobile broadband) coverage across the London Underground, which introduces uninterrupted coverage on the eastern section of the Jubilee Line. But only EE (BT) and Three UK have signed to use it.

Opensignal Award Best 4G and 5G UK Mobile Networks for Q1 2022

6th April, 2022 (10 Comments)

The latest April 2022 Mobile Network Experience study from Opensignal has measured the 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) performance of all four primary operators – EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK – to determine which delivers the best service. Overall, EE wins most of the categories, but Three UK does very well for 5G.

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Progress Update on Rural Scotland 4G Mobile Infill Project

20th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s £28.75m 4G Infill Programme (S4GI), which via WHP Telecoms aims to improve rural mobile voice and broadband coverage by building new masts (mostly tackling notspots across the Highlands and Islands), has given a progress update to confirm that 27 out of the 55 planned masts have gone live.

Three UK Sees Average Mobile Data Usage Per User Hit 19GB

17th March, 2022 (23 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today revealed that the average 4G and 5G data usage (mobile broadband), per customer, per month on their network jumped to 19GB (GigaBytes) in Dec 2021, which is up from 15.8GB a year ago. Ookla (Speedtest.net) also found that they delivered the fastest 5G download speeds in Q3-Q4 2021.

Three UK Preparing to Launch Apple Watch and eSIM in Q2 2022

15th March, 2022 (28 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that, after years of waiting and more than a few false starts (here), they will finally aim to launch eSIM support for 4G and 5G devices during Q2 2022, starting with the Apple Watch during the same period (other handsets will follow).

Mobile Operators in UK Competition Moan vs Apple Private Relay

14th March, 2022 (14 Comments)

The Mobile UK trade body, which represents Three UK, EE (BT), O2 (VMO2) and Vodafone, has called upon the Competition and Markets Authority to probe the impact of Apple’s new iCloud linked internet privacy tool – ‘Private Relay‘ – due to concerns over its negative impacts on their network optimisation and filtering measures.

Three UK and Vodafone Give Free Mobile to Ukrainian Refugees

10th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today announced that Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK – assuming they can get past the painfully slow UK Border Force first – will be supplied with a free 30-day Pay As You Go (PAYG) SIM card that comes preloaded with unlimited domestic calls, texts and mobile broadband data.

New Rules and Taller Masts to Boost 5G Mobile in Rural England

7th March, 2022 (17 Comments)

The Government has today confirmed their intention to introduce a series of changes to Permitted Development (PD) rights for mobile infrastructure, which aims to help extend 5G and 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in rural areas of England via key changes (e.g. allowing taller masts of up to 30 metres).

Vodafone UK, BT, VMO2, 3 and Sipgate Give Free Calls to Ukraine UPDATE3

25th February, 2022 (17 Comments)

Mobile and broadband ISPs Vodafone UK, O2 and Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Three UK, BT (inc. Plusnet and EE), Ogi, Giffgaff and Sipgate have today responded, separately, to the absolutely horrific events being seen in Ukraine over the past few days by giving their customers free calls and roaming to the country.

Three UK Donates 1 Million GigaBytes to the National Databank

21st February, 2022 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today become the latest provider to join the Good Things Foundation’s charitable National Databank scheme, which aims to provide free mobile broadband data to community groups and the people they support to aid internet connectivity – either via SIM cards or vouchers.

Uswitch 2022 Awards Reveal the Best UK Mobile Operators

18th February, 2022 (14 Comments)

The winners of the annual Uswitch.com Mobile Awards 2022 have just been unveiled, which among other things saw giffgaff win the “Network of the Year” award again, while Tesco Mobile scooped “Best Network for Customer Service” and Three UK was named the “Best Network for Data“.

Three UK Launch New 5G Hub for Unlimited Home Broadband UPDATE

15th February, 2022 (84 Comments)

New customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those taking their 5G based unlimited Home Broadband packages (priced from £21 per month), are now being supplied with a new hub (router) from ZTE. This appears to replace the prior model that was supplied by Huawei (their 4G hub also moved to ZTE last year).

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First Ever Independent 4G Coverage Map of Newcastle and North Tyneside

10th February, 2022 (11 Comments)

Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has just created something rather special – the “first ever” independent 4G mobile (broadband) coverage map of Newcastle and South Tyneside. The study was designed to “comprehensively” map out the region’s mobile phone “not spots” in order to help the local authority to improve connectivity.

Study of 5G Broadband Speeds and Availability in 16 UK Cities

9th February, 2022 (22 Comments)

Mobile testing firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published a new H2 2021 summary of 5G based mobile broadband performance and availability across the United Kingdom, which reveals how each of the primary network operators – EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2) – performed across 16 of the biggest metro cities.