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EE: User Data Offered For Sale Was “Anonymised”

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 >>

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Virgin Media’s Chucking In Free Unlimited Calls to Premium Numbers In Its New VIP SIM Tariff

As far as unlimited SIM tariffs go, Three's One Plan has always been pointed to as the best, however Virgin Media's managed to eclipse it today with its VIP package, which for £31 a month (or £26 if you're an existing customer) you get unlimited calls, texts, data, and for the first time for any network, free access to 0800 numbers. Read More >>

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BT Providing the Pipes and Wires for O2′s 4G Network

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 >>

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4G-Infused BT Wants Back Into the Mobile Phone Market

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 >>

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networks
Only 318,000 Brits Are Using 4G in the UK Right Now

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 >>

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ASA: No T-Mobile, Your “Unlimited” Data Isn’t Actually Unlimited

The advertising watchdog has just given EE's budget arm, T-Mobile, a big slap across the chops over its claim of "unlimited" data on its Full Monty plans. According to the ASA, it's not actually unlimited because T-Mobile employs traffic management, which makes it, err, limited. Read More >>

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O2 Plans Aggressive 4G Roll Out, Claims EE Hasn’t “Got Traction”

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 >>

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networks
0800 Mobile Calling Fees Rip-Off Set to End

One of the great modern injustices about using your mobile will soon come to an end, thanks to regulator Ofcom formally decreeing that it wants to unify freephone numbers and make 0800 lines free to call from our mobiles. Read More >>

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networks
Vodafone Southampton Bombed Out by Happy Falcons

Mother Nature has impacted upon the quality of life of Vodafone customers in Southampton, thanks to a pair of local peregrine falcons choosing one of the network's mobile masts as their 2013 nesting spot. Read More >>

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4g
Sad Government Accountants Probing £1.2bn 4G License Flop

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 >>

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O2 Separates Phone From Minutes to Satisfy Upgrade Cravings

The new O2 Refresh contract option from the mobile network sees it offer customers a separate contract for their calling plan and mobile phone, making it less of a fiddle to switch handsets mid-contract. Read More >>

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dealzmodo
A Bosch Tassimo Coffee Machine Is Your Instant-Caffeination Deal of the Day

Coffee. Giver of life, energy and mid-afternoon mania when you've had one too many. Also a major factor in insomnia and probably responsible for dozens of murders each year. We love it. Read More >>

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Do You Chew Through More Than 1.4GB of Mobile Data a Month?

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 >>

Blazing 4G
4g
EE’s Doubling Your 4G Speeds For Nothing

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 >>

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O2′s Giving You Free Virgin London Tube Wi-Fi Now Too

Good news if you're on O2. The network's just announced a deal with Virgin to give its customers free Wi-Fi access on London Underground, just like Vodafone and EE, from June. That will leave just Three and the MVNOs out of the free Tube Wi-Fi party. [Virgin] Read More >>