{"id":511,"date":"2012-03-24T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T07:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-03-24T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T07:36:35","slug":"o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> UK (Telefonica) has warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s plan to auction off the <strong>800MHz<\/strong> and <strong>2.6GHz<\/strong> radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a new generation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> superfast Mobile Broadband services, could be put at &#8220;<em>further risk of delay<\/em>&#8221; after the regulator allowed T-Mobile and Orange UK\u00a0(<em>Everything Everywhere<\/em>) to launch the country&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> service over their existing <strong>1800MHz<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a>) band.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe move has already provoked heavy criticism from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/vodafone-slam-ofcom-uk-for-letting-t-mobile-and-orange-launch-4g-in-2012.html\">here<\/a>), which suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> had &#8220;<em>[taken] leave of its senses<\/em>&#8221; because the decision could allow Everything Everywhere to &#8220;<em>bog down<\/em>&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> spectrum auction process (due to get underway in Q4-2012) in litigation and thus gain a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>From the very start of this process, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has said that the UK must retain a competitive market environment and that it will remove the ability for operators to behave strategically over spectrum allocation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To this end, Ofcom\u2019s auction proposals had much to commend them, and we were minded to support a small spectrum reservation for Hutchison or a new entrant, if Ofcom could make a stronger case for four players.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, we are concerned that Ofcom&#8217;s other proposal to allow one operator to launch 4G early on its existing spectrum is contradictory to its objective of delivering a competitive market environment with four competing players. This could expose the process to further risk of delay<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally neither <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> are keen on the idea of their arch rival being given a headstart. Meanwhile Ofcom firmly believes that there is &#8220;<em>no material risk of a distortion of competition<\/em>&#8221; and Everything Everywhere even withdrew its &#8220;<em>threatened legal action<\/em>&#8221; against the auction process well over a year ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2010\/11\/03\/everything-everywhere-drop-legal-challenge-to-uk-mobile-broadband-spectrum-plan.html\">here<\/a>). The European Commission (EC) has also made clear that EU regulators should allow mobile operators to repurpose both <strong>900MHz<\/strong> and <strong>1800MHz<\/strong> for 4G as appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Separately O2, which is known to have been one of the auction processes biggest opponents, has already been allowed to use its valuable 900MHz spectrum (i.e. costs less to deliver coverage over a wider area) for Mobile Broadband (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a>) services and could one day even adapt that for 4G.<\/p>\n<p>Leading politicians have repeatedly warned mobile operators to set aside their squabbles and work together, though there has been no threat of any new legislation. Yet. Ofcom&#8217;s 1800MHz approval remains subject to a short consultation until 17th April 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom&#8217;s plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a new generation of 4G superfast Mobile Broadband services, could be put at &#8220;further risk of delay&#8221; after the regulator allowed T-Mobile and Orange UK\u00a0(Everything Everywhere) to launch the country&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,60,32,36,72,91],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-orange-uk","tag-t-mobile"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom&#039;s plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012 - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom&#039;s plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-24T07:35:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-03-24T07:36:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-24T07:35:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-03-24T07:36:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\"},\"wordCount\":416,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"4G\",\"Mobile Broadband\",\"O2\",\"Ofcom Regulation\",\"orange uk\",\"t-mobile\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ISP News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\",\"name\":\"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012 - ISPreview UK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-24T07:35:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-03-24T07:36:35+00:00\",\"description\":\"Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom's plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"ISPreview UK\",\"description\":\"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/mjack\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/bsky.app\\\/profile\\\/ispreview.bsky.social\",\"https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.social\\\/@ispreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\",\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Mark Jackson\"},\"description\":\"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/markj\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012 - ISPreview UK","description":"Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom's plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012 - ISPreview UK","og_description":"Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom's plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html","og_site_name":"ISPreview UK","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_published_time":"2012-03-24T07:35:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-03-24T07:36:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mark Jackson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ispreview","twitter_site":"@ispreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Jackson","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html"},"author":{"name":"Mark Jackson","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5"},"headline":"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012","datePublished":"2012-03-24T07:35:37+00:00","dateModified":"2012-03-24T07:36:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html"},"wordCount":416,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"keywords":["4G","Mobile Broadband","O2","Ofcom Regulation","orange uk","t-mobile"],"articleSection":["ISP News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html","name":"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012 - ISPreview UK","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-03-24T07:35:37+00:00","dateModified":"2012-03-24T07:36:35+00:00","description":"Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom's plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/o2-uk-criticises-ofcom-for-allowing-t-mobile-and-orange-to-offer-4g-in-2012.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"O2 UK Criticises Ofcom for Allowing T-Mobile and Orange to Offer 4G in 2012"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","name":"ISPreview UK","description":"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization","name":"ISPreview.co.uk","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"ISPreview.co.uk"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mjack\/","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ispreview.bsky.social","https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5","name":"Mark Jackson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","caption":"Mark Jackson"},"description":"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/markj"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}