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News The trial aims to validate Stratospheric Platforms Ltd (SPL)’s High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) antenna technology’s viability to provide 4G and 5G connectivity over BT’s network Today, BT has announced the company’s latest step towards providing non-terrestrial network connectivity, testing the capabilities of SPL’s latest antenna to connect to BT’s terrestrial mobile networks. This antenna, if successful, will ultimately be deployed on a HAPS vehicle: essentially a flying mobile...

Mobile operator Three UK has today launched a new range of ‘Three Your Way‘ plans, which allows new customers to choose to pay for their device over a 12, 24 or even 36-month period, as well as to choose one of three, 12 or 24-month Airtime plans, each of which comes with their own range […]

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Rural ISP County Broadband, which is working to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today added another 5 villages in South Cambridgeshire to their ongoing network expansion (bringing the total in the county to 18 villages). The provider, which is […]

News The windows are made of a light, porous aerogel that can provide less resistance to passing radio waves without jeopardising property insulation This week, Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo that it is working with fenestration specialist YKK AP to test a new material for building signal-permeable windows, aiming to improve indoor reception from external radio waves. Instead of glass, the windows being tested are made using a newly developed gel-like material called aerogel. According to...

A new trial has been launched by telecoms giant BT (EE) and Stratospheric Platforms – funded by Innovate UK, which aims to harness High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) aircraft, usually located above commercial air traffic in the Earth’s stratosphere, in order to extend 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) coverage into remote rural areas. The idea of […]

The time has come. Vodafone will, in just a few days’ time, become one of the first UK mobile networks to start the process of switching off their old 3G mobile (mobile broadband) platform, with people in the Devon city of Plymouth and the Hampshire town of Basingstoke being among the first to switch. We […]

Customers of SpaceX’s popular Starlink ultrafast broadband service, which harnesses a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and is already home to 1 million subscribers, may like to know that it’s slowly adding a new ‘Sleep Schedule‘ feature to help save electricity. As the name suggests, this feature simply allows customers to […]

After sitting on the fence for a while, Sky Broadband has finally re-adopted Ofcom’s voluntary Code of Practice for Broadband ISP Speeds, which among other things will require them to give customers more information about their estimated line speed and makes it easier to exit a contract penalty free (if faults cannot be fixed). Just […]

Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM has announced that their rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England) has added the village of Gunness to its plan, which once completed will reach 360 additional homes and businesses. In case anybody has forgotten, KCOM’s full fibre network already covers around 300,000 premises in the […]