Category: Mobile Broadband

As of October 11th 2011 Vodafone pay monthly customers who exceed their bundled data allowance will see the cost rise from £5 for the next 500MB to £5 for only 250MB of data.

Three are to offer free mobile broadband connections to 11 rural communities through an initiative with the Countryside Alliance and Race Online 2012.

The BBC have released results from their mobile coverage survey along with a map, and the data shows that 25% of the time, users cannot get a 3G signal.

Tesco to trial a free Wi-Fi service for customers in their stores

The BBC have launched a survey to measure UK mobile coverage through a mobile phone app which will allow them to collate data and produce a UK map showing network coverage.

Orange have announced a new daily mobile Internet roaming tariff for contract customers.

The European Commission are proposing that consumers should be able to take out a 'roaming contract' for their mobile service which would operate alongside their existing contract, utilising the same number when abroad. Retail price caps for using data services whilst roaming are also planned for introduction.

T-Mobile announce unlimited mobile broadband data for users who sign up to a 24month contract over £25 per month before the end of September.

OECD statistics for the last half of 2010 show mobile broadband subscriptions in the OECD area now exceed half a billion, with fixed broadband lines now over 300 million.

MP's have suggested that Everything Everywhere should use the profit it will make from selling mobile spectrum to fund rural broadband.