UK telecoms operator BT is offering a “new” national roaming service for IoT SIMs on its EE mobile network, plus on infrastructure managed by UK telco rivals and rented by partner MVNOs “where required”. The service will connect to traditional higher-powered M2M-style cellular 2G,...
EE recently announced its 5G network has already reached 60% population coverage in the U.K.
U.K. operator EE, which is part of BT Group, said it has expanded its 5G network infrastructure to cover hundreds of localities in rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland.
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The telco has also said it plans to make 5G available anywhere in the U.K. by 2028
U.K. carrier EE announced its 5G network has already reached 60% population coverage in the country.
EE, which had launched its 5G network in May 2019, is also offering...
Contrary to the popular narrative among new telco upstarts that traditional mobile operators will be left behind in the Industry 4.0 race – on the grounds they are entrenched and parochial, geared for box-shifting and hobbled by local assets – UK-based BT says the...
EE noted that the first deployments of the new 5G equipment are in London
U.K. carrier EE, part of the BT Group, is deploying ultra-lightweight radio technology supplied by Ericsson with the aim of improving 5G energy efficiency and network performance across the telco’s footprint.
Ericsson...
Vodafone would own 51% of the potential new entity while CK Hutchison would own the remaining 49%
Vodafone Group confirmed that it is in discussions with Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings in relation to a possible combination of Vodafone UK and Three UK.
In a...
In May, EE said that its 5G network had already surpassed 50% population coverage in the U.K.
U.K. telco EE says it has turned up 2.1 GHz frequencies on its network across 14 towns and cities to support the latest 5G smartphones.
EE said in a...
It's the first time 4CCA has been tested outside a lab in Europe, the companies claim
BT announced Monday that it has successfully tested four component-carrier (4CC) carrier aggregation on a 5G Standalone (SA) network in commercial frequencies. Using EE’s live network, BT said it and...
Pelion provides global cellular connectivity coverage on 2G, 3G and 4G LTE as well as NB-IoT via several direct agreements with Tier 1 operator partners
IoT connectivity service provider Pelion announced an extension of its partnership with BT Wholesale, which will provide Pelion customers access...
BT highlighted that this new type of receiver may reduce mobile network energy consumption
U.K. carrier BT announced a trial of a new hyper-sensitive quantum antenna technology using "excited atomic states", which could boost the capability of next-generation 5G and IoT networks.
The operator noted that...
EE initially launched 5G technology in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham and Manchester
U.K. carrier EE announced its 5G network has already passed 50% population coverage in the country.
EE, which had launched its 5G network in May 2019, claimed to be the only mobile operator...
EE expects to reach half of the U.K. population with its 5G service by early 2023
U.K. carrier EE claimed to be the first European network to successfully aggregate a 5G signal using seven different spectrum carriers, the telco said in a release.
The experiment was...
The U.K. telco expects 5G will account for 35% of data usage by the end of 2022
U.K. operator Three UK currently operates 2,700 5G sites in 370 towns and cities across the country, the company said in a release. The telco noted that its...
EE and Nokia have already installed small cells in Leeds, London and Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool, among other cities
UK carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, said it has successfully deployed 200 new small cells across its network to boost capacity in high...
The Whitehill & Bordon Regeneration Company (WBRC), a joint venture between real-estate investment firm Dorchester Regeneration and house-building company Taylor Wimpey, has appointed local system integrator Electronic Media Services (EMS) to install a private LTE network at its new community development project at the...
The U.K. government announced a new initiative with the main aim of accelerating the deployment of Open RAN (O-RAN) in the country.
In a statement, the U.K. Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) explained that it, along with local carriers Vodafone, EE, Virgin Media...
U.K. telco BT Group has selected Oracle Communications Cloud Native Converged Policy Management to optimize its network resources and bring new 5G offerings to market.
In a release, Oracle noted that the solution will enable BT to test and implement 5G services—such as live streaming...
In the end, 5G is all about the consumer. Except it is not; most of the innovation will come in the enterprise space. That appeared to be the conclusion of a panel session at 5G World in London today, which represented a first foray...
U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, expects to reach half of the U.K. population with its 5G service by early 2023, BT said in a release.
The telco said that its 5G network will reach 90% of the country’s territory by 2028.
To reach...
U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, has doubled its 5G footprint in the recent fiscal year, with its next-generation offering currently available in 160 towns and cities across the country, BT said in its earnings statement.
BT also said that EE’s “5G-ready customer...
U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, announced that it has switched on 5G technology in 35 additional cities and towns across the country.
Some of the new cities covered by EE’s 5G network are Blackburn, Bolton, Brighton, Chester, Dundee, Exeter, Harrogate, Milton Keynes,...
The U.K. has completed its latest 5G spectrum auction, raising a total of GBP 1.35 billion ($1.88 billion), telecommunications regulator Ofcom said in a release.
Ofcom said that local carriers EE, Hutchison 3G UK, Telefonica’s O2 and Vodafone took part in the principal stage of...
The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom officially announced that the its 5G spectrum auction will start on March 12.
“The auction will increase the total amount of spectrum available for mobile technology in the UK by nearly a fifth, bringing better and faster services to people...
According to speed tests, U.K.’s 5G speeds are nearly four times faster than 4G
The U.K.’s four largest mobile operators — EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 — have launched 5G technologies in the U.K.’s main cities, as well as in a number of small...
