Category: Mobile Broadband

Opensignal has released its report on mobile experience covering the period 1st October – 29th December 2025. There are a few key headlines that Opensignal is announcing based on its testing during this period: For the report, the company is treating Vodafone and Three as separate companies, as the two entities still market services separately, […]

Parts of Dorset can now probably see what all the hype was with 5G, as the 5GSA network (5G Standalone) network has been launched by Virgin Media O2. People living and working in places like Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester, Swanage and Christchurch if they have a 5G capable handset will hopefully be seeing faster, lower latency […]

A boost to people using O2’s network in Sheffield has been announced as the company has confirmed it has enabled their 5G standalone network in the region. 580,000 residents across Sheffield and surrounding areas, including Chapeltown, Mexborough, Wombwell, Swinton, Dinnington, and Wickersley will now have access to the new technology after the switch on. The […]

A big milestone has been reached in the Shared Rural Network upgrade programme with 100 masts upgraded to support 4G service from all the mobile networks. These upgrades mean people will experience dead zones for mobile service less frequently, or experience the common thing of a friends phone on a different network working perfectly well. […]

O2 is the last network that still operates a 3G network, with the other UK mobile operators already having decommissioned their 3G service so they can re-deploy the spectrum to be used for 4G and 5G service. Three most recently announced that they had switched off the final parts of the 3G network for which […]

With the lease on its old headquarters building in Wythenshawe set to expire in early 2026 Virgin Media O2 has moved its North West HQ to John Dalton Street just off Deansgate. The building will house some 1,100 staff and highlights the firms commitment to Greater Manchester and the North West region. The new offices […]

O2 has announced that they are deploying thirteen new 4G/5G small cells via Freshwave in Guildford city centre to help improve connectivity in the busy public areas. This is under an open access agreement between Surrey County Council and Freshwave who act as a neutral host. Freshwave can then roll out mobile cells, which can […]

Ofcom has announced that it is launching an investigation into both BT and Three following network outages in the summer that caused widespread disruption to call services, both mobile and landline (in BT’s case) and in particular, access to emergency services. The incidents that occurred were, firstly, on the 25th June 2025, an outage at […]

O2 has now switched on its 5GSA (standalone) network in Essex and is available in around 500 locations serving the county which has a population of around 1.5 million people. For a few years people will have been seeing the 5G symbol on their mobile, but often this was reliant on the underlying 4G network […]

Firms like O2 have previously announced satellite services and now the full launch of these services is possible. Networks simply have to request a chance to their licence and in a sensible move smartphone users will not need a licence. O2 is not alone, Vodafone announced a partnership with AST way back in January 2025. […]