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Viewpoint Article Steven Moore, Head of Climate Action at GSMA and Mobile Sector Lead for the UN’s Climate Champions, talks about the three Cs at the heart of COP27, and how the mobile industry is contributing to the fight against climate change In my role as Head of Climate Action at GSMA, last year I was privileged to attend the recent COP27 climate conference in Egypt, joining conversations with global impact, and hear talks from some of the brightest minds on the planet. As we look ahead...

Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has recommitted to continue their existing policy of retaining inclusive EU roaming as a standard feature on their plans, which they claim could be helping to save an average family of four around £100 during a two-week trip away. Across the UK, this could be saving as much as £3m per […]

We’ve recently been talking a lot about the challenges being faced by alternative broadband network providers (AltNets) and related ISPs in the UK, so it’s worth taking a minute to scan over the latest data from Intelligens Consulting. This summarises the build plans and changing market shares of the largest ten players. At present around […]

UK ISP Fibrus, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks across N.Ireland and the North of England, has today claimed that it now “offers [the] fastest broadband services in Northern Ireland” and has “launched” a “service at 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps)“. But no, you can’t actually buy this.. yet. Consumers who read […]

Consumers looking to join UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) may like to know that the provider has started this week by refreshing their discounts for new customers, which among other things includes 6 months of half-price service on their standalone ultrafast broadband plans (i.e. on the 125Mbps to 500Mbps tiers). As usual, new customers can […]

The Worcestershire County Council (WCC) in England has committed to help ensure that 90% of premises across the county will be able to access a gigabit-capable broadband ISP network by 2027, which will be partly funded via clawback (gainshare) from their earlier rollout programme with Openreach (Superfast Worcestershire). Just to recap. The original Superfast Worcestershire […]

News The French operator said it will shut down its 2G networks in 2026, followed by its 3G network in 2029 This week, Bouygues Telecom’s B2B Market Director, Jean-Christophe Ravaux, has been quoted by French news media L’Usine Digitale suggesting that the company still has a few years to go before shutting down its 2G and 3G networks. According to the article, Ravaux says that the French mobile operator is aiming to shut down its 2G network in 2026 and its 3G network by 2029. “The closure of...

News The regulator says its provisional view is to not intervene over Openreach’s plans to further reduce fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) product prices for ISPs Today, Ofcom has opened a consultation on Openreach’s controversial proposed discount plan, Equinox 2, which would offer major discounts to ISPs purchasing the operators wholesale fibre products. In its statement, Ofcom said that their provisional decision would be to allow this latest wave of discounts, saying that the move would not...

Mobile operator Three UK has confirmed that they too have joined EE (here) and Vodafone (here) in starting to rollout their ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) service on the London Underground (tube trains), with Archway, Tufnell Park, and Notting Hill Gate stations this week becoming the first to be upgraded. David Hennessy, Three UK’s CTO, told […]

A short but interesting debate took place yesterday in the House of Lords (Parliament), which saw many cross-party peers call on the UK government – represented by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (DCMS) – to do more to help tackle the impact of recent above-inflation price hikes by broadband ISPs. The debate, which provides an […]