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Free Disney+ offer for Vodafone subs

For a limited time, Vodafone Pay Monthly mobile customers in the UK can claim a three-month subscription of Disney+ Standard with Ads, usually costing £4.99 a month. Once the three-month period has ended, customers will automatically be charged the monthly price of £4.99 for Disney+ Standard with Ads. Customers can choose to continue on the […]

December 4, 2024

EE wins UK’s best network

EE has been named the winner of the umlaut connect 2025 Mobile Network Test in the UK, marking the 10th year in a row that it has been awarded this accolade and, in doing so, becoming the first UK operator to ever surpass a score of 900. The test was conducted by the independent benchmarking […]

December 3, 2024

Research: Stark differences in men/women online habits

Significant differences in the online lives of men and women in the UK have been revealed in Ofcom’s annual report into the nation’s digital habits. Across all adult age groups, women are spending more time online – on smartphones, tablets and computers – than men – clocking up an extra 33 minutes more each day […]

November 28, 2024

Forecast: Private 5G to drive 63% CAGR in in building wireless market

The in-building wireless market is transforming significantly, with private 5G networks poised to close the considerable gap with Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS). According to technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the private 5G market, currently about 14 times smaller than DAS, is expected to grow at a remarkable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 63 per […]

November 27, 2024

SpaceX gains FCC approval for D2C

Direct-to-Smartphone satellite communications have been approved – with some conditions – by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for SpaceX. This permission applies to US consumers using T-Mobile’s services. The approval was granted on November 26th and covers 7,500 of SpaceX’s Second generation Starlink satellites which will operate at lower orbits (Very Low Earth Orbits, VLEO), […]

November 27, 2024By Chris Forrester

Forecast: 6.3bn 5G subscriptions by 2030

5G Standalone (5G SA) and 5G Advanced are expected to be key focuses for communications service providers (CSPs) for the remainder of the decade as they deploy new capabilities to create offerings centered on value delivery rather than data volume. The analysis is included among a wealth of statistical network insights in the November 2024 […]

November 26, 2024

Deutsche Telekom, Skylo, Qualcomm demo Geo SMS

Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm and Skylo have announced the successful completion of an end-to-end trial of SMS send and receipt over GEO satellite. It is the first time in Europe that an operator’s terrestrial mobile network has been integrated into a satellite network to enable texting based on the 3GPP Release 17 specifications for Direct-to-Handset (D2H) […]

November 26, 2024

Anaysis: 3-player mobile markets exhibit better networks

Ookla, a specialist in network intelligence and connectivity insights, has analysed how the number of operators in a market affects network quality and consumer prices across the EU and other high-income countries. According to Speedtest Intelligence, three-player mobile markets in the EU delivered median download speeds 56 per cent faster than their four-player counterparts in […]

November 25, 2024

D2D: Power levels concerns

The new Donald Trump administration, and a new chair at the FCC (Brendon Carr), is increasingly expected to permit operators such as Starlink and AST SpaceMobile to begin transmitting and receiving calls direct-to-devices and including consumer smartphones. As Armand Musey (partner at consultancy Summit Ridge Group) suggested during the recent 13th Americas Spectrum Management Conference […]

November 25, 2024

Survey: US spend on standalone mobile, internet, pay-TV rises

Parks Associates’ latest Home Services Dashboard reveals that US consumers who do not bundle their home services reported an increase in their monthly spending from Q3 2023 to Q3 2024. The research firm’s consumer survey of 8,000 US internet households reveals that the monthly average spend among consumers without bundles was $100 (€96.08) for mobile […]

November 22, 2024