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Vodafone-Net-Zero-UK

14th September, 2021 (13 Comments)

Vodafone UK and WPI Economics have called on the government to help fix the climate by putting the rollout of 5G (mobile broadband), IoT and other digital connectivity at the core of its forthcoming Net Zero strategy – it’s claimed this could reduce the UK’s overall emissions by up to 4% a year (17.4 million tonnes of CO2e).

three uk mobile broadband

9th September, 2021 (101 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK, which last year said that they planned to “retain” EU roaming at no extra cost “regardless of Brexit negotiations“, has today followed the U-turns from rivals EE (BT) and Vodafone by announcing their intention to reintroduce roaming charges on texts, data (mobile broadband) and calls.

Consumers-Complaints-for-Ofcom-UK-via-Smartphone

6th September, 2021 (29 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their Q1 2021 (calendar) consumer complaints study, which names and shames Virgin Media UK for attracting the most moans about fixed line home broadband, Pay TV and landline phone services in the quarter, while Three UK did the same for Mobile.

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voxi

3rd September, 2021 (3 Comments)

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is a virtual operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone UK, will later today introduce a new range of discounts across their plans and also boost the data allowances for mobile broadband usage. But these will only be available to order until 7th October 2021.

Ericsson AIR3227

2nd September, 2021 (6 Comments)

Vodafone UK has teamed up with network supplier Ericsson to conduct a new trial in Central London, which demonstrated an impressive 43% reduction in the energy consumption of their 5G mobile broadband network (reaching up to 55% at off-peak times). The operator has also re-farmed some of their 900MHz band to boost 4G.

Vodafone-Pro-Alexa-Super-WiFi-Device-and-Broadband-Router

27th August, 2021 (19 Comments)

Vodafone UK has this week introduced some new discounts on the monthly cost of their various “Superfast” (FTTC/P) and “Gigafast” (FTTP via Openreach or Cityfibre) home broadband packages for consumers. Prices now start at just £19.50 per month for their entry-level 35Mbps tier.

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vodafone uk 2017 mobile sim logo

25th August, 2021 (3 Comments)

Vodafone UK has today launched a new initiative that offers SIMs packed with 20GB of free data (mobile broadband), as well as free calls and texts every month for 6-months, to charities across the country. The hope is that this may help some of the 1.5m households – approximately 6% of the population – who live in digital poverty.

tank pointing at bt openreach engineer long

16th August, 2021 (49 Comments)

Alternative UK network providers have heavily criticised Ofcom’s provisional decision not to oppose Openreach’s (BT) proposal for a “major” price cut to their wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband products, which they warn could impact competition by discouraging ISPs from adopting rival networks.

11th August, 2021 (28 Comments)

A major fire at Arqiva’s (Cellnex) 315 metre tall Bilsdale Transmitter site in North Yorkshire (England) has knocked out TV and radio services for more than 1 million surrounding premises. On top of that, mobile (2G, 3G and 4G) services from O2, EE, Three UK and Vodafone have also been disrupted.

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vodafone uk sim holder

9th August, 2021 (72 Comments)

Well, that was one of the fastest U-turns in history. Mobile operator Vodafone UK, which in June 2021 (here) told ISPreview.co.uk they had “no current plans to change our approach to roaming in the EU” (this after rival EE reintroduced roaming charges), has now decided to introduce such charges after all.

Vodafone-Pro-Alexa-Super-WiFi-Device-and-Broadband-Router

6th August, 2021 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone has today enhanced their existing range of home fixed line “Pro Broadband” (FTTC / FTTP) packages by integrating Amazon’s Alexa AI personal voice assistant into their bundled “Super Wi-Fi Plus” (mesh network) booster device, which has also been upgraded to support Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax).

5g mobile signal bars uk by 123rf

5th August, 2021 (17 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics will today publish a new biannual H1 2021 report into the performance of 5G (mobile broadband) networks in the United Kingdom, which praises EE (BT) for their “consistent broad availability … fast speeds and reliability.”

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speed_metre_broadband_and_mobile_UK

3rd August, 2021 (49 Comments)

Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net service, has just published a new Q1-Q2 2021 (H1) study of 5G mobile broadband performance from Three UK, EE, Vodafone and O2 (VMO2), which found that Three delivered the fastest average (median) download speeds of 231.07Mbps. But Vodafone wins on uploads (19.69Mbps).

vodafone_uk_hand_holding_sim

28th July, 2021 (5 Comments)

A complaint by rival mobile operator EE (BT) has prompted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban several of Vodafone’s adverts after they “misleadingly” claimed to be the “UK’s Best Network” or “UK’s best mobile data network” for 4G and 5G services (mobile broadband).

vodafone mast and engineer

23rd July, 2021 (7 Comments)

The latest quarterly results (financial Q1 FY22) from UK ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today been published, which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +29,000 customers (vs +35k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 940,000. But their mobile base declined again to 16,994,000.

CityFibre trenching engineers fttp build

22nd July, 2021 (1 Comment)

The first customers have now started to connect to CityFibre’s new £75 million Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the Bowling and Tyersal areas of the West Yorkshire UK city of Bradford, which is being built with support from civil engineering firm Network Plus.

22nd July, 2021 (3 Comments)

Mobile testing firm RootMetrics has published their latest biannual H1 2021 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which once again named EE (BT) as the best overall operator. But they were beaten in one category, with O2 (VMO2) coming top for accessibility.

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