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News The nationwide rollout is expected to deliver energy savings of up to 4.5m KWh per year across the entire network This week, EE has announced that it has rolled out its new dynamic ‘cell sleep’ technology across its 4G mobil network, potentially greatly reducing its power consumption. The technology functions by putting certain 4G LTE carriers into a less functional low-power mod (i.e., ‘cell sleep’) at times when this capacity is not likely to be needed. These periods of cell sleep are...

News  Vodafone Spain is currently facing strike action due to a redundancy plan implemented by its new owner, Zegona Communications  The Spanish trade union UGT has scheduled strikes for the 9th and 11th of July, with partial strikes being carried out on various days throughout the month.  Zegona Communications completed its €5 billion acquisition of Vodafone Spain earlier this month. Since then, the new owner has announced plans to cut around 1,200 jobs, just over a third of the Spanish...

Press Release [Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20, 2024] Huawei partnered with global Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and industry players including China Mobile, Hong Kong Telecom (HKT), South Africa Openserve, Saudi Arabia STC, Tsinghua University, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and Eastcom Software won the TM Forum’s Best Moonshot Catalyst Award 2024 in Sustainability Challenge with the project “Sustainable Telco by Green Network Evolution”. This project...

A number of recent reports in the news media have put out warnings about this week’s early summer heatwave, some of which have even talked of “broadband blackouts“. But the reality is that this week’s heatwave is unlikely to cause any major problems for either consumers or ISPs, provided you’re sensible. First things first, this week’s “heatwave” is relatively pedestrian and expected to peak in some areas at around 30c. On the one hand, that’s fairly hot for this part of the world, which means...

Mobile operator and broadband ISP Vodafone UK has this morning launched a new internet security service for their Pro II home broadband packages “at no extra cost“, called ‘Secure Net Home’, which is a combination of digital security and parental controls (filtering) that can be used on more than 150 connected devices in the home. The provider states that their new Secure Net Home service includes various features, such as real-time protection against viruses and online threats (malware) for...

The Milton Keynes-based Complete Technology Group (CTG), which is a UK landlord advisory service that also runs Complete Fibre (i.e. they install full fibre broadband infrastructure into large residential buildings / MDUs), has announced that it will “withdraw its current service offer” from the market over the “coming months“. Founded in 2020 to raise standards in the safety and quality of digital infrastructure, CTG says it has worked as a bridge for landlords and telecommunications...

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve deployed “cell sleep” technology across their UK 4G (mobile broadband) network, which they “anticipate” could deliver total energy savings of up to 4.5m KWh per year – reducing both their demand on the local grid and helping to cut costs at a time of high electricity prices. The announcement, which could be read as somewhat of a response to Three UK’s similar development (here), states that their new “cell sleep” software works by...

News We sat in on the 5G and Connectivity track at this year’s a tech mobility focussed event MOVE in London, hearing from interesting speakers discussing connectivity in electric vehicle market, and diving into smart city and infrastructure issues that better connectivity can help solve The first speaker of the day was Marc Sauter, Head of internet of things (IoT) product management at Vodafone, who shared his thoughts on how IoT connectivity can play a critical role in driving innovation and...

Today we’re taking our usual biannual look back to see how the average UK broadband download and upload speeds have changed across the fastest nationally available fixed line ISPs, mobile operators and Starlink (satellite) since the end of 2023. Overall, fixed broadband speeds have continued to improve, while mobile remains variable. As usual the results in this report stem from web-based speed testing by consumers and are thus inevitably impacted by a number of factors, such as the rising...

Some of Vodafone’s UK customers have questioned the mobile network operator’s claim that their inclusive roaming feature comes at “no extra cost”, particularly after a stealthy 22p call connection fee was introduced. But you’d have to dig deeper into their website to find it and the charge doesn’t apply to everybody. A number of Vodafone’s mobile plans currently come with roaming equipped – usually “Xtra: Inclusive roaming in 83 worldwide destinations” or “Inclusive roaming in 51 European...