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Read More Crowdfunded mobile operator Honest Mobile, which harnesses Three UK’s network via a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement, has today announced the launch of a “first-of-its-kind SIM” plan – Smart SIM – that is multi-network and designed to tackle expensive global roaming, as well as poor UK phone signals. The supposedly “industry-first” eSIM solution works alongside your main SIM to provide 200+ essential apps with “unlimited data” (broadband) on mobile operators including...

Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve won another contract, this time via the Derbyshire County Council (DCC) in England, to map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage across another 10,000km of the UK’s road network in the East Midlands of England, using bin lorries. Streetwave have spent the past 1-2 years harnessing waste (bin / refuse) collection trucks to map mobile network coverage and speeds in various parts of the UK (e.g. here, here, here, here and here). In this...

Multiple Suffolk Fire and Rescue crews were called in late yesterday morning to tackle a blaze at the first floor of an office block on BT’s research and development focused Adastral Park site near Ipswich. The business park is home to around 150 other ICT companies that contribute toward both BT and their own development. At this stage, little is known about the event, except that Firefighters with seven appliances attended the site just after 10:30am on Saturday (1st March 2025). The fire is...

New research from SignalTracker, which runs a popular Android mobile app (but not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile phone reception, appears to show that although your handset may say 5G, it frequently only has a 4G connection. In UK samples, when the 5G icon was displaying, 38% of tests were in fact found to be a 4G connection. “This is because most phones show 5G when the base station to which they are connected has 5G equipment potentially available. The actual connection may be 4G...

Customers of Vodafone UK’s mobile and broadband services, specifically those that also use their internet anti-malware ‘Secure Net‘ service (included with their ‘Pro II Broadband’ packages), may in the near future be able to benefit from quantum-safe cryptography after the operator collaborated with IBM on a new Proof of Concept (PoC) test. At present, Quantum Computers are still very much in the early R&D stages of their development. But it is anticipated that, someday, future...

New research from Broadband Genie, which surveyed 3,200 people across the UK, claims to have identified the best and worst cities, as well as internet providers, for broadband reliability. Overall, Gloucester was named as the best UK city for reliability (only 8% experienced outages last year), while Belfast (51%) was the worst. The somewhat anecdotal survey asked participants how many outages they’ve experienced in the last year, where they live and who their broadband provider is. Using...

Broadband network operator AllPoints Fibre (APFN) has today signed a new “long-term” strategic partnership with UK business ISP Daisy Communications. The deal will see Daisy both take on APFN’s B2B customers and harness their new aquila wholesale platform to access and sell products via their national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. Just to recap. Aquila now states that it’s available to 18 million+ UK homes and businesses, which is roughly in keeping with the respective network...

Press Release Boost Mobile, the newest US nationwide carrier, has deployed Nokia’s fully cloud-native 5G Voice Core to enable even faster delivery of advanced services, enhanced network automation, and more efficient cloud utilization than its Open RAN cloud-native network could before. The deployment includes the consolidation of several IMS voice 3GPP functionalities into a single cloud-native network function (CNF), called Nokia Cloud Native Communication Suite (CNCS). This migration, from...

Alternative network operator CityFibre, which has so far deployed their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS), is reportedly close to reaching agreement on a much needed £500m equity financing deal to support its existing roll-out and fuel consolidation. The alternative network operator currently still aspires to cover up to 8 million UK premises with their new full fibre network (funded by c.£2.4bn in equity,...

Good news. Business broadband ISP and communications provider Northern Telecom, which normally focuses on serving the North of England, has announced the acquisition of Wales-focused wireless provider Dyfed Telecom. The move comes shortly after HMRC filed a winding-up petition against the Kidwelly-based business (here). Just to recap. Dyfed Telecom has spent the past few years helping to connect various premises across rural Wales to broadband using a mix of mobile (EE powered 4G/5G),...