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EE extending 4G in over 500 UK areas

EE will upgrade 4G in more than 500 areas in 2021 as part of the Shared Rural Network initiative to extend coverage in rural areas across the UK. SRN is a programme between the UK’s four mobile network operators and Government to extend 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK’s geography by the […]

February 24, 2021

UK cellcos enhance rural coverage

Three of the UK’s mobile operators – O2, Three and Vodafone – are partnering to build and share 222 new mobile masts to boost rural coverage across the United Kingdom and deliver the first stage of the Shared Rural Network (SRN), a £1 billion programme to improve rural mobile coverage agreed by the mobile network […]

January 27, 2021By Colin Mann

‘Urgent’ call for more Wi-Fi spectrum

With over half of all the connections to the Internet starting or ending with Wi-Fi access and demand for broadband connectivity surging worldwide, Wi-Fi urgently needs access to the 6 GHz frequency band, concludes a new paper published by the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) and Policy Impact Partners (PIP), which represent multiple digital companies. Focused […]

November 16, 2020By Colin Mann

Forecast: Mobile data to drive mobile services revenue in APAC

The total mobile services revenue in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will increase from $307.4 billion in 2020 to $390.9 billion in 2025 at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.9 per cent, supported by steady growth in mobile subscriptions and increase in aggregate mobile services average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData. GlobalData’s […]

October 8, 2020

Research: UK talks for longer during lockdown

UK comms regulator Ofcom’s second Mobile Matters report analyses how around 200,000 people used their Android mobile phones between January and April this year, shedding light on how people make calls and get online on the move. The report reveals marked differences in how people used their phones before and during the initial Covid-19 lockdown […]

October 8, 2020

Spain probes DTT interference from France

The Spanish Administration is looking into DTT signal interference in Asturias, north of Spain, from a French DTT network. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has reported the problem to the French Government. While the problems are being solved, the Asturias Administration has proposed to increase signal strength, change the polarity and even […]

July 1, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

Forecast: 190m 5G subs by year-end

Communications technologist Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to top 190 million by the end of 2020 and 2.8 billion by the end of 2025. These forecasts are included in the June 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, along with projections for data traffic growth, and regional subscriptions. The report also looks

June 16, 2020