EE customers are now able to access 5G connectivity in three London Underground stations.
Customers travelling through Archway, Tufnell Park, and Notting Hill Gate will now benefit from high-speed connectivity.
EE says 5G connectivity will be available “from ticket hall to platform” at all three stations. The only station with 5G within the tunnel segment is Notting Hill Gate, EE says the other two stations will join “shortly”.
Greg McCall, Chief...
BT is partnering with Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) to test beaming 5G from a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) aircraft.
The duo hopes the project will provide a solution to a key challenge of mobile connectivity: providing coverage to the most rural and difficult-to-reach areas.
“We’re delighted to be partnering with SPL to start realising the huge potential of HAPS aircraft to further strengthen our UK 4G and 5G network technology leadership,” said Tim...
The first operator has gone live on “pioneering” mobile infrastructure that will host multiple telcos.
EE has joined a connectivity pilot led by Freshwave that will deliver enhanced 4G and 5G coverage to users along Queen Victoria Street in London.
James Hope, Director of Mobile Radio Access Networks at EE, said:
“High capacity, super-fast connectivity is essential for consumers and businesses today, with demand for data and low-latency networks...
The FCC has announced the approval of nearly $800 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) that will go to providers including Nextlink and Starry.
Fixed wireless access (FWA) providers are the main beneficiaries of the RDOF fund as the FCC bets on their ability to achieve rural broadband availability targets.
"We are excited to partner with the FCC to deploy gigabit connectivity to households across rural America," said Nextlink CEO Bill Baker in a...
Nokia and Safaricom have trialled Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing on a live 4G and 5G network in Africa.
Network slicing enables operators to divide their networks into multiple virtual slices that can be optimised for a specific application or service. Each slice can be given its own priority in addition to different levels of security.
The pioneering trial utilised a multi-vendor network environment and included RAN, transport, and core as well as software...
Mobile network performance measurement firm RootMetrics has named EE the UK’s leader for the ninth year running.
Overall, EE came out on top for all UK-wide RootScore categories ('Reliability', 'Accessibility', 'Speed', 'Data', 'Call', and 'Text').
Marc Allera, CEO of the consumer division at EE-owner BT, said:
“We are proud to be named the UK's best network for the ninth year running. Reliability is of huge importance to our customers, and we pride...
Three UK has achieved some impressive 5G results in OpenSignal’s latest Mobile Network Experience Report.
The UK’s smallest mobile operator by subscribers got its name from being the first to launch a 3G network in the country. When it came to 4G, many reports found that Three often fell behind rivals in speed and availability.
With the rollout of 5G now fully underway, Three is making a serious effort to secure its leadership.
Three UK customers saw...
Vodafone has announced plans to begin shuttering its 3G network in 2023 to focus on improving 4G/5G services.
The operator says that less than 4 percent of data traffic across its network is now delivered via 3G—compared to over 30 percent in 2016. By the end of this year, the amount of 3G traffic is likely to have dwindled even further.
With the vast amount of traffic carried over 4G – and increasingly 5G – it makes sense for Vodafone to improve those...
The latest UK Mobile Performance Review from RootMetrics finds that EE remains the operator to beat.
EE earned the top spot across all seven of RootMetrics’ performance categories: Overall Performance, Reliability, Accessibility, Speed, Data, Call, and Text. The operator took home 109 of 112 RootScore Awards in major metropolitan areas.
Patrick Linder, Sr. Director of Marketing and Communications at RootMetrics, said:
“As the UK’s hunger for data...
The first Digital Connectivity Index shows the UK needs to build momentum to climb the rankings and reap the substantial benefits.
Economic modelling experts Oxford Analytica and Virgin Media O2 partnered up to create the index which is based on “thousands” of OECD datapoints.
Of the 24 OECD countries, the UK is currently ranked joint eighth alongside Spain, Norway, and Lithuania:
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