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BSkyB Confirm Interest in Sky Germany and Italy Acquisitions

12th May, 2014 (5 Comments)

BSkyB (Sky Broadband) has confirmed last week’s report that it has an interest in merging with Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, which are all broadly owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox (although Murdoch’s stake in BSkyB is just over 39%). But no agreement has “ever been reached“.

First 2G and 3G Mobile Services Go LIVE in the Chunnels North Tunnel

6th May, 2014 (6 Comments)

Eurotunnel has today confirmed that Le Shuttle and High Speed Train commuters travelling along the Channel Tunnel (North Tunnel) route, which links the UK to France, can now access 2G and 3G based mobile phone and mobile broadband connectivity via EE and Vodafone (O2 will soon follow) thanks to a new fibre optic based GSP-P retransmission system. 4G is coming soon.

Vodafone UK Launch 4G Mobile Broadband Roaming in 4 EU Countries

2nd May, 2014 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that customers of their Red 4G plans (including business travellers) will now also be able to make use of “ultrafast” Mobile Broadband connectivity when roaming across Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Vodafone UK Pumps Extra GBP100m into 150 New Shops and 1400 Staff

3rd April, 2014 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has boosted their presence in the United Kingdom by another £100 million in order to open 150 new shops and create 1,400 new jobs, which will form part of their annual investment in networks and services that’s currently set to hit £1 billion in 2014. But are they gearing up for something even bigger.

Vodafone UK Scrap No Expiry for OLD PAYG Mobile Broadband Users

26th March, 2014 (5 Comments)

One of the problems with modern pay-as-you-go Mobile Broadband packages is that you get a short expiry time of 30 or 90 days on the data allowance but it didn’t use to be that way. Back in 2008/9 Vodafone launched a dongle (USB Modem) with a “no expiry” period, which many customers have continued to use.. until now.

EE Named Fastest and Most Reliable UK Mobile Broadband Operator

13th March, 2014 (3 Comments)

RootMetrics has today published their H2 2013 Rootscore Report, which uses data collected from 840,000 network and speed tests conducted across the United Kingdom to reveal which mobile operator is best for Internet access, calls and texting. Suffice to say that EE topped the table in all respects, while Vodafone was almost always at the bottom.

Vodafone Expands “Ultrafast” 4G Coverage to 36% of the UK Population

17th February, 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today claimed that its new “ultrafast” (ugh the terminology..) 4G based Mobile Broadband network has managed to attract 500,000 customers within the first six months of going live and their network coverage is now reaching 36% of the United Kingdom (population).

T-Mobile Top Ookla List of the Top 5 Fastest UK Mobile Broadband Operators

8th February, 2014 (6 Comments)

Global broadband ISP speed testing outfit Ookla have revamped their Net Index (Speedtest.net) service to include a useful summary of download and upload speeds for Mobile Broadband operators in the United Kingdom (as well as other countries). Interestingly the fastest operator is T-Mobile.

4G Mobile Boosts Vodafone UK as Fixed Line Broadband Users Fall

6th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Vodafone UK has reported that its new 4G Mobile Broadband services are now available in 13 cities across the country, attracting 370k subscribers (Q4 2013), and a bigger move into Pay TV is being rumoured. But sadly their fixed line broadband ISP subscriber base has suffered another sharp fall to just 59k users (down from 85k in Q2 2013).

Vodafone Finally Meets UK 3G Mobile Broadband Coverage Requirement

31st January, 2014 (0 Comments)

It took a few months but mobile operator Vodafone has finally passed Ofcom’s coverage obligation for 3G based Mobile Broadband coverage, which requires all of the markets major MNOs to provide related network coverage in the 2100MHz band to at least 90% of the UK population.

Sky and Vodafone UK in Possible Merger or Joint Collaboration Talks

20th January, 2014 (1 Comment)

Last week’s speculation that BSkyB (Sky Broadband) could potentially merge with O2 or Vodafone UK (here) might have been based on some truth. A new report indicates that Vodafone and Sky have held joint high-level talks concerning a collaboration against BT, which could take any one of several different forms.

UBS Analysts Speculate on BSkyB Merger with Vodafone or O2 UK

14th January, 2014 (5 Comments)

Global financial services firm UBS has triggered an uplift in BSkyB’s (Sky Broadband) stock price after suggesting that the company could merge its European pay-TV assets to form Sky Europe and or then pick-up a mobile operator by merging O2 (Telefonica UK) or Vodafone UK into their operations.

Vodafone UK and EE Bring Mobile Broadband to the Channel Tunnel

9th January, 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile operators Vodafone and EE have signed a new 10-year deal with Eurotunnel that will make their 2G and 3G based voice and Mobile Broadband services available to commuters travelling 100 metres below sea level on trains along the Channel Tunnel (North Tunnel) route that connects the UK to France (4G will follow later).

Mobile Operator Three UK Hints Towards Interest in O2 Acquisition

6th December, 2013 (7 Comments)

The boss of mobile operator Three UK, David Dyson, has added fuel to the growing fire of rumours that surround their alleged interest in a merger with O2 by saying that “under the right circumstances” the United Kingdom could operate competitively with fewer operators. But there are significant complications to consider.

Vodafone UK Funded Report Blasts Ofcom for Allowing Excess BT Profits

4th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

A new Vodafone UK commissioned report from consulting firm Frontier Economics has accused BT of being in breach of its regulatory commitments by allegedly making profits of nearly £5bn more than the level that Ofcom is claimed to deem acceptable.

EE Extends its 3G and 4G Mobile Broadband Speed Lead in London UK

31st October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The final RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband speeds in London, which conducted more than 86,000 tests across the city, has confirmed that EE remain the fastest operator for mobile Internet performance thanks to their comparatively advanced 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) network. By contrast O2, Three UK and Vodafone were well off the pace.

Vodafone UK Expands 4G Rollout and Connects 100,000th Customer

9th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that more than 100,000 people have now signed up to its new 4G (LTE at 800MHz) based Mobile Broadband platform and the switch-on dates for the next batch of UK cities have today been revealed.