Category: Mobile Broadband

Durham is the starting point for the Virgin Media O2 3G switch off programme and people will see 3G vanish in the City of Durham starting on 2nd April 2025.

The EE 5G standalone network was first launched in September 2024 and by the end of March 2025 is set to be available to 28 million people across some 50 areas of the United Kingdom.

The latest shared rural network upgrade in Scotland covering Tobermory and Aros on the Isle of Mull brings the total of upgrades delivered via the project to ten masts in Scotland.

The Virgin Media O2 standalone network is now accessible to large enterprise, public sector, and SME customers on eligible VMO2 mobile tariffs in the UK.

The latest mast under the Shared Rural Network programme goes live today and this means more reliable 4G coverage in Helmsley, Harome, Great Edstone and Cold Kirby areas of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.

Craster on the Northumberland coast was a mobile coverage not-spot but no more, as utilising a Starlink panel to provide backhaul ahead of a fibre being installed Virgin Media O2 is now providing 4G coverage to the popular tourist town.

The retiring of the old 3G network and re-use of the spectrum for more efficient 4G or 5G networks continues and Virgin Media O2 has announced Durham as the first place in a switch off programme set to complete in 2025.

A mast hidden among the trees of Ghlinne Bhig Forest on Skye has improved the 4G coverage on Skye improving safety and ease of access to text, calls and data for residents and visitors.

BT announced over the weekend that it has signed a £1.28bn contract with the government to provide the Emergency Services Network for the next seven years.

21 remote sites in Wales, 5 in England and 5 in Scotland are now benefiting from 2G and 4G mobile coverage where previously there was none with the work of delivery partners Virgin Media O2, wavemobile, Cisco, Ori and WMG at the University of Warwick.