Want a New Mobile Phone Every Year? Vodafone UK Says Xchange It
Mobile operator Vodafone UK are launching a new service called ‘Xchange‘, which they say will let customers exchange their phone for a new one every year on a 24-month Phone Plan (or a year early on longer plan lengths), with no early upgrade fees and nothing left to pay on their old Phone Plan. Just remember to send your previous phone back in “good condition“. At the time of writing, the web page for the new service currently still says it’s “coming soon” (it’s unclear precisely when it will...
Study Claims London SMEs Missing Out on £28bn in Revenue Due to Poor Broadband
A new survey of 250 business leaders from London’s smaller and medium-sized firms, which was conducted by Censuswide and Development Economics for UK broadband ISP G.Network, has claimed that SMEs are missing out on an estimated £28bn in annual revenue due to “slow and unreliable workplace broadband“. According to the polling, 52% of senior leaders and business owners among London’s SMEs have considered moving office location in order to get better access to faster and more reliable workplace...
Connected Britain 2024: Day 1 Keynote spotlight
A Connected Britain Preview Connected Britain 2024 is just around the corner and, with just days left to go, it is only fitting that we highlight some of our amazing keynote sessions, featuring some of the biggest names in the UK telecoms industry. Day 1 – Wednesday 11 September CXO Interviews Intimate discussions with some of industry’s biggest names Marc Allera, CEO EE (08:50) Lutz Schüler, CEO, Virgin Media O2 (10:00) Katie Milligan, Chief Commercial Officer, Openreach;...
Quickline expands leadership team to help tackle rural connectivity challenge
News The new hires come as Quickline has recently secured its fourth government contract under the Project Gigabit programme East Yorkshire based ISP Quickline Communications has expanded its senior leadership team with three key appointments to support the company’s ongoing growth. The Project Gigabit contracts will bring full fibre broadband to nearly 170,000 premises through public funding, and up to 360,000 homes and businesses when combined with Quickline’s commercial build. The...
Sky Business and ITS deepen partnership around UK enterprises
News The deal builds on a pre exiting agreement between the two companies Sky Business has signed a new long-term agreement with ITS to provide fast and reliable Ethernet connectivity to businesses across the UK. The partnership combines ITS’s fibre network with Sky Business’s core network to offer high-quality, ultrafast services, the press release explains. According to ITS, their network currently extends to 25% of all of the UK’s commercial premises. “Sky Business’s new partnership...
Virgin Media O2 UK Expand Mobile Small Cells to Central Reading
Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today continued with their effort to boost 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) capacity across the UK, not least by expanding their ongoing roll-out of small cells into the central part of Reading (town) in Berkshire – supported by Ontix. Small cells are like mini shoebox sized mobile (radio) base stations, which have been designed to deliver limited coverage (usually up to around 80-120 metres) and thus tend to be more focused on busy urban areas...
VMO2 and Ontix partner on 4G small cells in Reading
Press Release Visitors, residents, businesses and students in Reading town centre will begin to benefit from an improved mobile experience and faster speeds after the first Virgin Media O2 small cells are deployed across the Borough. Virgin Media O2 and Ontix partnered to bring small cells to Reading where the innovative technology is already boosting mobile capacity and reducing network traffic in major destinations at busy times. The small cells have been deployed in some of the busiest...
Report Claims Fixed Wireless Broadband Could Give UK a £4bn Boost
A new report from the UK Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (UKWISPA), which was put together by Intelligens Consulting, has claimed that fostering greater use and acceptance of the latest innovations in fixed wireless broadband networks by the government could deliver £4bn of “quantifiable impact” in the UK. The government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency and its £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out programme have, thus far, tended to prefer network solutions that adopt...
New Kit Sends Gigabit WiFi Network Speeds Through 30cm of Concrete
A Silicon Valley company called Airvine has developed a rather unique network bridge that can extend a Local Area Network (LAN) running at multi-Gigabit speeds, seemingly using only WiFi style wireless signals via the 2.4GHz and 6GHz bands, through “up to” 30cm (12″) of solid concrete walls – it can even bend around 90-degree solid concrete corners. As somewhat of a general rule, wireless networking signals don’t usually like going through solid walls and the thicker they are, the more trouble...
Three UK’s Home Broadband Users Suffer Intermittent Connectivity
Some customers of mobile network operator Three UK, specifically those who are taking one of their 4G and 5G powered unlimited Three Home Broadband packages, have – for the best part of a year – been complaining about an intermittent connectivity problem that is sporadically disrupting their use of various internet services. The issue, which has in recent months been experienced by members of ISPreview’s forum and is also covered via a 41-page thread on Three’s forum (here), first surfaced in...