Vodafone's not quite ready to battle EE in the 4G market, with plans to launch a rival superfast network pushed back to the "end of the summer" when it believes there's a "good commercial window" for it. Which we think means fleecing iPhone upgraders for an extra fiver a month, come the arrival of the next Apple handset. Read More >>
We're getting reports that EE's suffering a data outage across the country, with customers on the 4G EE network (not T-mobile or Orange for now), being hit with no data access. Is this happening to you? Read More >>
Featured comment by lolhotdog:
"Yeah wireless strength is poor compared to my old S3 :/
Worth getting it RMA'd? From what I can tell some people have had up to three replacements ..." More »
After all the fear mongering that the wide-scale launch of 800MHz 4G in the UK would nuke all our Freeview TVs, blocking up airwaves and sending us back to the dark ages of televisual viewing, it seems it's really not that big a deal. Just 15 out of 200,000 homes in a test area saw any interference at all. Read More >>
Mobile network EE, which was at the centre of a little storm over claims a market research company was offering to sell details of its users to the police, has advised everyone to calm down a little. It was anonymised data that wouldn't be able to identify or lead to the tracking of its users. Read More >>
Samsung says it has completed and tested one possible format that could be used as a basis for 5G wireless data technology, claiming to have magically pulled connection speeds of up to 1Gbps through its new super-super-fast mobile data connection. Read More >>
According to a supposedly leaked Mr. Blurrycam shot from Vodafone's inventory system, snagged by Stuff, Apple's next phone won't be the iPhone 5S, it'll simply be called the iPhone 6, which is very interesting if true. Read More >>
Featured comment by adeyb:
"/me hurrying to patent office to copyright the term '6'.
Damn... Some stupid footballer as already beaten me to it!!!
;)" More »
BT has signed a ten-year deal with O2's parent company Telefonica to help create the network's UK 4G service, with BT building a new "high capacity transmission network" to ensure we can all refresh Twitter as many times per minute as we want. Read More >>
Featured comment by unuspromulti:
"Odd, I'd just read the same about Virgin Media doing backhaul for Telefonica 1500 sites for 10 years. Guess they're getting serious about their networ..." More »
Buoyed by its purchase of a decent £200 million chunk of 4G spectrum, BT's looking to get back in the mobile game, despite previously saying it had no intention of going mobile again. It's looking for a partner to leverage BT Mobile. It's like BT Cellnet all over again. Read More >>
Featured comment by baystar:
"I read on BBC News that BT's 4G spectrum won't be used for telephony but solely for some sort of mobile internet service. Presumably they'll offer 4G ..." More »
For the first time since launch, EE's busted out some real subscriber numbers, and it seems not that many Britons have actually jumped on the 4G bandwagon yet. Only 318,000-odd people have plunked for one of EE's high-priced 4G tariffs, which in comparison to EE's total subscriber base of 13.7 million is still a drop in the ocean. Mind you, that is after only five months. Read More >>
Featured comment by zerobob:
"But wait!... The Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE bla bla bla bla fucking bla.
I must have been the only person that that certain specification didn't both..." More »
UK network O2 has been shouting about its plans for its forthcoming 4G network launch, claiming it'll be "mind-blowingly aggressive" when it come to pushing out its future LTE services in the UK. Read More >>
Featured comment by EvilSamo:
"Having left giffgaff(o2) due to network shoddiness, this is a sign of a good step forwards.
as some of you may know vodafone and o2 network infrastru..." More »
The National Audit Office, which is like the nagging voice that keeps track of the government's spending and receipts, is to investigate the results of the recent 4G auction -- which saw the mobile networks paying £1.2bn less than anticipated. Read More >>
EE's Olaf Swantee reckons the average 'heavy user' chews through only 1GB of data on T-Mobile's unlimited 3G plan, and just 1.4GB on EE's 4G network a month. That seems a tad on the light side to me, but how much mobile data do you eat up a month and on which network? Read More >>
Featured comment by leexgx:
"they sent you an screenshot windows7 connection hmm?
funny thing is quite sure they cant detect tethering still as that would require money to be s..." More »
Taking a leaf out of Virgin's book, EE's doubling your 4G speeds. What does that mean? If you're on LTE already, you'll see speeds supposedly hit 20Mbps on average, up from an average of 8Mbps currently, with a top theoretical outside-the-lab speed of 80Mbps. Now that really is fast. Read More >>
Featured comment by rbuchan:
"In the last week a speed test on my 3g iPad using both an ee and a 3 network SIM card has somehow reached over 13 Mbps in 2 separate locations in smal..." More »
Here's an interesting stat courtesy of EE. Around half of the UK's population lives in and around just 50 towns and cities. And they're all now able to pay a premium to access EE's 4G mobile service. Read More >>
Mobile network Three is so happy with its 3G setup that it's in no hurry to stick up newer 4G masts across the country, with its chief exec saying its 4G network is likely to arrive "towards the end of the year." Read More >>
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