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ISP Vodafone UK Responds to Gripes Over Slow Video Streaming UPDATE

1st March, 2019 (21 Comments)

Over the past couple of months there appears to have been a rise in complaints from customers of Vodafone’s superfast home broadband (FTTC) packages. Quite a few are reporting slowing speeds, particularly related to problems when trying to use popular video streaming services (Netflix, Twitch etc.).

UK Named One of the Cheapest EU Countries for Mobile Broadband

25th February, 2019 (10 Comments)

The United Kingdom has been named in a new study as one of the most inexpensive countries in the European Union for 3G and 4G based Mobile Broadband and call services, which is in no small part thanks to Three UK’s increasingly cheap data tariffs. By comparison the Czech Republic and Cyprus came out as the most expensive.

Vodafone Hope to Banish Broadband Blackspots with Super WiFi

21st February, 2019 (20 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone have today announced that they’ll soon be launching a new cloud controlled “smart home network” solution for customers of their home broadband service, which will work to deliver “fast, reliable, Wi-Fi signal to every corner of the home.”

Cityfibre Appoint Development Managers for Leeds and Huddersfield

21st February, 2019 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic network developer Cityfibre has today announced that they’ve appointed City Development Managers for their “city wide” 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network builds in Huddersfield (£30m project) and Leeds (£120m). Local homes will be supplied via UK ISP Vodafone.

Vodafone UK Test Ultrafast 5G Fuelled WiFi at Manchester Airport

19th February, 2019 (8 Comments)

Download speeds of up to 200Mbps have been seen after Vodafone UK added Manchester Airport to their public test sites for future 5G based Mobile Broadband technology. As a result travellers have been able to try ultrafast broadband speeds by connecting to the new network via WiFi.

Cityfibre’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout Reaches 25000 Premises

18th February, 2019 (11 Comments)

The latest independent data has estimated that Cityfibre’s new £2.5bn project to roll-out a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network (Vodafone Gigafast Broadband), which aims to cover 5 million premises across 37 UK cities and towns by the end of 2024 (here), has so far reached 25,000 premises.

Amey Chosen to Build Cityfibre’s Full Fibre Broadband in Edinburgh

12th February, 2019 (12 Comments)

Cityfibre has appointed infrastructure firm Amey to build their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in the Scottish city of Edinburgh (UK ISP Vodafone will supply to consumers), which is expected to cost a little over £100 million and be largely complete by around the end of 2021.

uSwitch 2019 Awards Reveals Top UK Mobile and Broadband ISPs

8th February, 2019 (9 Comments)

The annual uSwitch.com Awards 2019 event took place last night, which saw various wins for broadband ISPs Vodafone, Virgin Media, Plusnet and TalkTalk. Meanwhile Sky (Sky Broadband) scooped several categories for their Mobile service and sibling NOW TV scooped the best TV provider gong.

Vodafone UK Start Testing Early Mock 5G Smartphone in Newbury

7th February, 2019 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that they’ve this week joined with Qualcomm and Ericsson to conduct “over the air” tests of their future 5G network with an early Smartphone prototype, which uses the latest Gigabit broadband speed capable Snapdragon™ X50 modem.

First Homes Live on Cityfibre’s Peterborough 1Gbps Broadband Service

6th February, 2019 (2 Comments)

The £30m project by Cityfibre and UK ISP Vodafone, which last year started deploying a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network across the Cambridgeshire city of Peterborough, this week achieved an important milestone by connecting its first homes.

New ISP toob Planning UK Full Fibre Gigabit Broadband Network

1st February, 2019 (9 Comments)

A new Portsmouth (Hampshire) based ISP called toob has surfaced that claims to have secured enough investment to deploy a Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network “at scale” across parts of the UK, which aims to serve businesses and homes. But there’s a strong Vodafone connection.

First Homes Live on Vodafone’s 1Gbps FTTH Broadband in Aberdeen

31st January, 2019 (8 Comments)

Cityfibre’s £40m project to roll-out a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in Aberdeen (Scotland) has today seen its first customers go live via UK ISP partner Vodafone, which follows a little over half a year after the local construction phase began.

Vodafone Attracted Most Broadband and Phone Moans in Q3 2018

30th January, 2019 (4 Comments)

Ofcom’s newest Q3 2018 UK consumer complaints report has revealed that, for the first time, ISP Vodafone attracted the most gripes for fixed line broadband and landline phone services, while Sky Broadband won praise for seeing the fewest moans. Pay TV and Mobile providers are also covered.

RootMetrics H2 2018 Study Name EE Top and O2 Bottom for UK Mobile

29th January, 2019 (2 Comments)

RootMetrics has today published their latest H2 2018 study of 4G and 3G based mobile network performance in the United Kingdom, which once again found that EE came top with an overall score of 94.5 out of 100 and they were followed by Vodafone on a score of 92.9. Meanwhile O2 has improved but continues to come last.

Vodafone Cough to Using Some of Three UK’s Mobile Spectrum

25th January, 2019 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has called it a “genuine mistake” after one of their cell sites at London’s Gatwick airport was spotted using Three UK’s slice of the 4G friendly 1800MHz radio spectrum band. The latter is now checking to see whether any other such mistakes have been made.

Vodafone UK Top 525,000 Broadband Users and See Mobile Growth

25th January, 2019 (7 Comments)

Telecoms operator and ISP Vodafone UK has released their latest quarterly results to the end of 2018 (Q3 FY19), which saw them add another 46,000 fixed line broadband ISP customers to total 525,000 (up from +44K added in the previous quarter). Meanwhile their mobile base grew to 17,175,000 (quarterly rise of 120,000).

Cityfibre Pick Boss for £20m Cambridge Full Fibre Broadband Rollout

23rd January, 2019 (2 Comments)

Cityfibre and ISP partner Vodafone have recruited a former police communications director, Charles Kitchin, to oversee the £20m roll-out of their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) ultrafast broadband network for homes and businesses in the UK city of Cambridge.