BT Wholesale has signed a 10 year deal with O2 (Telefonica UK) to support the operator’s forthcoming launch of 4G mobile network services. The deal is said to be worth around £500m over the next decade. Continue reading
BT Wholesale has signed a 10 year deal with O2 (Telefonica UK) to support the operator’s forthcoming launch of 4G mobile network services. The deal is said to be worth around £500m over the next decade. Continue reading
Ofcom has announced a proposal to change the way consumers are charged for calls to Freephone numbers, 08, 09 and 118 numbers, known as non-geographic customer service numbers. These numbers currently charge more if rung from a mobile line, compared to a landline. The variance in the costs to these numbers from different suppliers currently causes confusion to users. Continue reading
Ofcom have announced the winners of the 4G mobile auction. After 50 rounds of bidding which raised just over £2.3 billion, both Vodafone and O2 were able to secure parts of the network for their planned 4G coverage. Continue reading
Bob El-Hawary, Senior Director of Channel Accounts at Research In Motion has been speaking with Vodafone about the upcoming BB10 platform. BlackBerry’s new operating system, set to run on a new breed of advanced handsets, will take centre stage at the official launch on 30th January. Continue reading
Today, Ofcom announced the names of the parties that have successfully qualified for the upcoming 4G auction. Continue reading
Last Tuesday, Ofcom opened up the registration for parties interested in bidding for the 4G licenses next year. Applicants had until 16:00 on 11th December to express their interests as well as submit the initial £100,000 deposit. Continue reading
If you’re a Vodafone customer who’s unfortunate enough to live, work or generally frequent a signal blackspot area, then you may be interested in one of their signal boosters: the Sure Signal, which has now been redesigned and improved. Continue reading
Vodafone UK has given more details on how they will be sharing masts across the UK with O2 UK. As reported here back in October and June, instead of having seperate masts for each network, they will be putting their masts and O2’s masts together, getting rid of duplicates and building out some new ones. Once done, Vodafone estimate that there will be 18,500 of them. Continue reading
From early next year, Vodafone customers will be able to use the London Underground Wi-Fi service for free.
The infrastructure for this network was installed by Virgin Media earlier this year in time for the London Olympics, and Virgin Media has allowed all users with Wi-Fi enabled devices to to use it without charge. However Virgin Media announced last month that the service will be chargeable to non Virgin Media customers from the beginning of 2013. However, Vodafone have manage to come to an agreement that their customers can log into the Wi-Fi service for nothing, using their My Vodafone account details. Continue reading
After publishing a report on the state of the UK’s communications infrastructure, Ofcom have unveiled plans on how it will tackle consumers’ growing demand for data on the move.
According to the report, 20 million Gigabytes of data is now being consumed in a month by mobile phone users. Compared to the same period last year, where 9 million Gigabytes of data was used, this is an increase of more than double the amount, an equivalent of downloading 5 billion music tracks. They predict that this could increase by 80 times that amount buy 2030. Even with the advent of 4G next year, Ofcom forsee an issue of possible “capacity crunch” in the forseable future as networks struggle to meet the data demands of its customers. Continue reading