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Contract-free mobile provider VOXI, which is the virtual network operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone, has today launched a series of Black Friday discounts across their Pay Monthly SIM Only 4G and 5G plans, which quadruples or more the included data (mobile broadband) allowance for new customers. For example, VOXI’s entry-level £10 per month plan now comes with 80GB (GigaBytes) of data instead of 20GB. The same plan also includes unlimited calls, text, picture messages and social media usage...

Alternative network operator and ISP Quickline, which is deploying gigabit-capable broadband networks (FTTP and wireless) across rural and semi-rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has today become the latest provider to launch some big Black Friday discounts on their packages and Amazon vouchers worth up to £1,000. Building on their current half price for 12 months offer to new customers taking any of their packages, for the Black Friday weekend (until 11:59pm on Monday 2nd...

Alternative network provider Wildanet, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has today appointed a trio of new chiefs (CCO, COO and CFO) to help oversee the deployment of its new network and strengthen its leadership team. The operator, which originally started life as a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband provider in the same area, has recently been deploying gigabit-capable full fibre lines – both...

Contributed Article  As both 5G and AI technologies continue to mature, GTI’s Intelligent RAN, Ubiquitous AI Project aims to explore existing synergies and develop combined use cases   At this year’s Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) in Istanbul, GTI launched a global recruitment drive for its Intelligent RAN, Ubiquitous AI Project.   The initiative is part of GTI’s wider 5G-A x AI Development Program launched at MWC Barcelona alongside 20 partners earlier this year. The Program focuses on...

News  The deal covers over 3,000 Open RAN sites across Germany  Nokia has announced a deal with Deutsche Telekom to support the deployment of over 3,000 sites for its Open RAN network in Germany.   The rollout, which is already underway in the Neubrandenburg region, will see Nokia replace equipment from the incumbent vendor, Huawei. Partnering with Fujitsu, Nokia will provide O-RAN-compliant technology designed to modernise Telekom’s network.   “This deal is further evidence of our significant...

Mobile operator EE (BT) has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve “started the work” to repurpose more of their old 3G radio spectrum for use by modern 4G and 5G based mobile networks, which is said to already be delivering “performance improvements” (e.g. faster mobile broadband speeds) for customers in “thousands of postcodes” across the UK. In case anybody has forgotten, EE switched-off their final 3G sites back in February 2024 (here). But it’s long been known that the radio spectrum which...

Macquarie-backed UK ISP KCOM, which is the dominant telecoms operator in Hull and is also expanding their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network further into East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has today celebrated their 120th anniversary and revealed that their network, which is home to 150k customers, now covers 305,000 premises (up from 297k in March 2023). In case anybody has forgotten, KCOM announced a second network roll-out programme in September 2022 (here), which was due to expand...

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today expanded upon their existing partnership with Hiya by integrating the company’s AI-powered scam detection service to help combat fraud and nuisance calls, which sees them claiming to be the “first and only UK mobile operator to provide this service to customers at no extra cost“. The news isn’t all that surprising because VMO2 announced, in February 2024, that they’d become the second major UK telecoms provider, after BT (EE), to adopt Hiya’s...

Mobile giant O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, while working alongside the government-backed 5G DRIVE project, they’ve been able to deliver reliable mobile network coverage to 31 “iconic tourist destinations” that were previously “not spots” for mobile signals (i.e. 21 in Wales, 5 in England, and 5 in Scotland). The 5G DRIVE (aka – Diversified oRAN Integration & Vendor Evaluation) project represents a consortium, including partners such as O2, wavemobile, Cisco, Ori and WMG at the...

Alternative network provider Freedom Fibre has today issued a short progress update on their £24m (state aid) Project Gigabit contract for North Shropshire – Lot 25.02 (here), which will see their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network being expanded to cover “around” 12,000 hard-to-reach rural homes. In case anybody has forgotten, the original announcement stated that the first properties could start to go live from October 2024 and that the 3-year deployment was then expected to complete by...