Category: Mobile Broadband

In just four weeks EE will have a competitor in the 4G arena as O2 are set to start using their 800 MHz band to offer service in an initial few cities.

An ASA adjudication is usually a simple case of clarifying some language, but the latest ruling has two very similar complaints but one is upheld and one is not.

Birmingham may have missed out on a dedicated full fibre network to some parts of the city, but the push to provide free Wi-Fi in parts of the city is going ahead at full speed with the awarding of the contract to Virgin Media.

While the 4G auction may have been decided there are still various dice being rolled by Ofcom as the 4G roll-outs stagger towards reality.

While London is probably already saturated with hot-spots from the micro WiFi hotspots that BT HomeHubs offer, a number of councils have awarded a contract to improve WiFi access and include 24/7 free access to council websites.

The importance of WiFi as a cheaper technoglogy for companies to roll-out and end-users to use is reflected by a new contract between Fluidata and O2 to extend the O2 WiFi network.

After the many pages of complaints about BT winning the BDUK money, Arqiva has quietly hoovered up the £150m from the Mobile Infrastructure Project to construct mobile masts in the more rural parts of the UK.

Okay so checking your email while on a rollercoaster may not be the most sensible thing to do, conjuring up visions of expensive phones being dropped just before you press send on an ever so urgent Facebook update.

Following on from a consultation that looked into relaxing the rules for street cabinets in relation to broadband roll-outs, a similar consultation is now underway for the rules around mobile masts.

Has the epidemic of porn got so bad that people and in particular children are using Wi-Fi to view it in coffee shops?