Category: Mobile Broadband

Patients staying in hospital can feel cut off from friends and family particularly with the high costs of travel to visit so free WiFi is crucial to helping people stay in touch and keep abreast of what is happening in the outside world.

Data connectivity on the move is becoming more important and the proposals from the new Culture Secretary appear to be an attempt to resolve that issue.

The two day tube strike has shown the thirst for information and also how people are using their mobile devices for information and to pass the time on crowded platforms.

EE is keen to get sales of what are likely to be three of the most popular handsets for 2014 off to a head start with a free return flight to one of 12 European cities.

The new iPhone 5C with just 8GB of built-in storage may not suit everyone, but for those not needing lots of storage it may reduce the entry price to own an Apple handset.

Testing of fixed line broadband services carries enough problems, but testing mobile services is even harder due to number of variables involved, but RootMetrics has put EE at the top of the mobile chart for the UK in the second half of 2013.

For spikes in Internet use you only have to look at sporting events and this will be even more the case for 4G and large stadium based events. Thus we are seeing various multicast testing events around the world - but don't know of any in the UK yet.

The ASA rulings are often down to the interpretation of the wording, but a lack of speed test data from three meant that the ASA has ruled that its 3.9G adverts must not be repeated.

Vodafone and EE have agreed a deal with Eurotunnel to provide mobile services in the Channel Tunnel.

EE have now exceeded the 2 million customer mark on their 4G network and expect 70% population coverage by the end of January.