http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Sat, 25 May 2013 22:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/vodafone-4g-pushed-back-to-september-to-coincide-with-iphone-refresh-excitement/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/vodafone-4g-pushed-back-to-september-to-coincide-with-iphone-refresh-excitement/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 11:15:40 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=167902 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 [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/vodafone-4g-pushed-back-to-september-to-coincide-with-iphone-refresh-excitement/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/is-your-ee-phones-data-buggered/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/is-your-ee-phones-data-buggered/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 14:28:32 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=167234 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? The reports indicate it’s just data for now, but information on what and where is scarce. A quick look [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/is-your-ee-phones-data-buggered/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/yeah-4gs-probably-not-going-to-nuke-your-tv-after-all/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/yeah-4gs-probably-not-going-to-nuke-your-tv-after-all/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 12:45:20 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166049 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 [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/yeah-4gs-probably-not-going-to-nuke-your-tv-after-all/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ee-user-data-offered-for-sale-was-anonymised/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ee-user-data-offered-for-sale-was-anonymised/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 09:30:01 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165573 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. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ee-user-data-offered-for-sale-was-anonymised/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/samsungs-new-5g-makes-4g-look-like-dial-up/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/samsungs-new-5g-makes-4g-look-like-dial-up/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:03 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165250 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. Samsung’s calling its system mmWave Mobile Technology, due to it  using millimetre-wave bands beamed out [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/samsungs-new-5g-makes-4g-look-like-dial-up/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/rumour-apples-next-iphone-will-apparently-be-called-the-iphone-6/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/rumour-apples-next-iphone-will-apparently-be-called-the-iphone-6/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 10:30:29 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=164498 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. This is, of course, pinch-of-salt time, as we have no way of truly verifying the shot. However, if you [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/rumour-apples-next-iphone-will-apparently-be-called-the-iphone-6/feed/ 17 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/bt-providing-pipes-and-wires-for-o2s-4g-network/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/bt-providing-pipes-and-wires-for-o2s-4g-network/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:45:04 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161706 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. BT will also be providing the backhaul for the new network, hooking [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/bt-providing-pipes-and-wires-for-o2s-4g-network/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/bt-wants-back-into-the-mobile-phone-market/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/bt-wants-back-into-the-mobile-phone-market/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:30:33 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161036 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. For those old enough to remember, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/bt-wants-back-into-the-mobile-phone-market/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/only-318000-brits-are-using-4g-in-the-uk-right-now/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/only-318000-brits-are-using-4g-in-the-uk-right-now/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:15:26 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160272 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 [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/only-318000-brits-are-using-4g-in-the-uk-right-now/feed/ 17 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/o2-plans-aggressive-4g-roll-out-claims-ee-hasnt-got-traction/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/o2-plans-aggressive-4g-roll-out-claims-ee-hasnt-got-traction/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:35 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=158699 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. Gary Booker, the network’s consumer general manager, told Techradar: “We will have a very, very accelerated roll out of 4G, it’s mind-blowingly [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/o2-plans-aggressive-4g-roll-out-claims-ee-hasnt-got-traction/feed/ 20 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/sad-government-accountants-probing-1-2bn-4g-license-flop/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/sad-government-accountants-probing-1-2bn-4g-license-flop/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:00:26 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157917 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. According to a letter seen by Labour MP Helen Goodman, the NAO’s boss Amyas Morse said he [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/sad-government-accountants-probing-1-2bn-4g-license-flop/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/do-you-chew-through-more-than-1-4gb-of-mobile-data-a-month/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/do-you-chew-through-more-than-1-4gb-of-mobile-data-a-month/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:30:32 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156211 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? I guess [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/do-you-chew-through-more-than-1-4gb-of-mobile-data-a-month/feed/ 72 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/ees-doubling-your-4g-speeds-for-nothing/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/ees-doubling-your-4g-speeds-for-nothing/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:02:36 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156173 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. Of course, if loads of people [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/ees-doubling-your-4g-speeds-for-nothing/feed/ 29 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/ee-adds-13-new-towns-to-4g-list-claims-half-the-population-is-now-covered/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/ee-adds-13-new-towns-to-4g-list-claims-half-the-population-is-now-covered/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:20:38 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153735 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. EE has today announced that its LTE masts in Bradford, Bingley, Doncaster, Dudley, Harpenden, Leicester, Lichfield, Loughborough, Luton, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/ee-adds-13-new-towns-to-4g-list-claims-half-the-population-is-now-covered/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/threes-4g-unlikely-to-arrive-before-the-end-of-2013/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/threes-4g-unlikely-to-arrive-before-the-end-of-2013/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:20:18 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153573 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.” Dave Dyson, the network’s CEO, is reported as saying: “We have the opportunity [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/threes-4g-unlikely-to-arrive-before-the-end-of-2013/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/ees-firing-4g-into-the-cumbrian-wilderness/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/ees-firing-4g-into-the-cumbrian-wilderness/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:45:41 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=152225 EE’s extending its 4G rollout into the Cumbrian countryside meaning those without fibre, or even ‘high speed’ broadband for that matter, could just hook onto the wireless waves of LTE instead, with average speeds around 8-12Mbps and peaks of 20Mbps. Has rural high-speed internet finally arrived? The network is essentially looking at providing traditional fixed-line [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/ees-firing-4g-into-the-cumbrian-wilderness/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/another-nine-towns-get-ees-4g-in-the-uk/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/another-nine-towns-get-ees-4g-in-the-uk/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:45:54 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146433 EE’s storming rollout of 4G across the nation continues at a record pace, even if its subscriber numbers aren’t quite as rocketing. Congratulations to Barnsley, Chorley, Coventry, Newport, Preston, Rotherham, Telford, Walsall, and Watford as you’re all now 4G-enabled. That brings the total to 37 towns and cities across Britain covered by EE’s LTE network. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/another-nine-towns-get-ees-4g-in-the-uk/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/ee-says-average-4g-customer-uses-just-1-4gb-of-data-each-month/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/ee-says-average-4g-customer-uses-just-1-4gb-of-data-each-month/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:30:13 +0000 Kat Hannaford http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=145848 EE’s CEO Olaf Swantee has shared some interesting stats at MWC today, which certainly make me feel better for not using my full 8GB each month. According to EE, 25 per cent of their 4G traffic comes from customers watching videos, with 11 per cent of those being YouTube videos. More stats to nibble on, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/ee-says-average-4g-customer-uses-just-1-4gb-of-data-each-month/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/finally-an-lte-chip-which-will-work-anywhere-in-the-world/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/finally-an-lte-chip-which-will-work-anywhere-in-the-world/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:30:43 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=145194 Qualcomm has announced something that will make travellers everywhere very happy: a new radio chipset that can support every LTE network in the world. More accurately, the RF360 chips provides connectiviry for LTE-FDD, LTE-TDD, WCDMA, EV-DO, CDMA 1x, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE networks. That should be enough, though, as it currently covers every LTE network in [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/finally-an-lte-chip-which-will-work-anywhere-in-the-world/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/the-4g-auction-results-are-in-vodafone-wins-big/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/the-4g-auction-results-are-in-vodafone-wins-big/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:00:12 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=144473 Yes, this is it folks. The auction’s over after 50 rounds of bidding, and now the networks have up until midnight tonight to fork out the collective £2.3 billion odd in cash. But who won what, and how much? Seems Vodafone was on a full-on 4G crusade. A load of different chucks of spectrum in [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/the-4g-auction-results-are-in-vodafone-wins-big/feed/ 55