UK mobile customers will have to be told about any roaming charges that apply when travelling abroad, under new rules proposed today by Ofcom.

Putting up 4G masts in remote communities can provide sufficient social and economic benefits to financially break-even after 15 years according to a report by connectivity and smart technology consultancy FarrPoint. The installation of a new 4G mobile mast for the Achiltibuie community on the west coast of Scotland resulted in35 per cent of residents

Vodafone Is using Ericsson’s new A3218 compact antenna to make planning applications easier, and improve 5G capacity, coverage and performance without increasing its antenna footprint.

Industry professionals, experts, and enthusiasts will gather at special one-day Mobile News Circular Summit conference on the booming secondary market to be held on November 15 at the Thomas Lord Suite of the world-famous Lords Cricket Ground in London NW8.

Despite facing challenges such as postal strikes and diminishing consumer confidence, Music Magpie’s trading performance showed a 42 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2022. Store sales accounted for 79 per cent of total sales, up from 72 per cent in the previous fiscal year.

New Zealand mobile and broadband provider Spark is facing calls for a boycott by people who say they are appalled with the network’s support of Fijian-New Zealand trans-activist Shaneel Lal demand that ‘TERFS’ be banned from Facebook/Meta’s new Threads social media platform.   ‘TERF’ (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) refers to women who dispute that trans-gender women are biological

Comms, cloud and hardware provider Giacom has added alt-net CityFibre FTTP service to its product range.

The analogue switch off will have a huge impact on non-voice applications says Nextivity VP strategic accounts Colin Abrey.  As telephone networks are being overhauled the world over, the analogue era in the U.K. is coming to an end in December 2025.

“The launch of Cloud Market seemed an appropriate time to bring our three organisations together under one brand” Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS) and Union Street brands have been harmonised under the ‘Giacom’ brand and the group’s four ordering portals have been unified into a single portal called Cloud Market.

Vodafone and Three’s deal will create the biggest single mobile network. Hamish White, CEO of telecoms provider Mobilise explains how the merger could affect the UK’s mobile market. While the merger seems to be beneficial, it’s far from approved yet. And it’s a process that could take as long as 18 months, with approval from

London-based consumer tech youngster Nothing brand founded 2020 has concluded a $96 million fundraising round.

HMD Global has launched new £199 Nokia phone with user-repairable and replaceable screen, charging ports and battery.

The famous London Olympia exhibition venue is getting 5G coverage as part of the venue’s £1.3bn regeneration. The installation is by BAI Communications (BAI), the shared infrastructure provider that brought 4G cellular coverage to London Underground. BAI is the official distributed antenna system partner for Olympia and will build the infrastructure that will enable 5G

Exertis is the new distributor for JCB Toughphone products, the brand that started the rugged mobile phones sector 16 years ago. Exertis will be ranging two new rugged Android smartphones, the JCB Toughphone TP231 and JCB Toughphone MAX and supplying JCB products to its specialist retailer and mobile channels. “The partnership will enable customers to

UK customers could save more than £400 each on average by extending the life of their smartphones, tablets or laptops by a year according to a report by Asurion Europe  The report maintains the UK population could be saving over £18.8 billion by keeping their devices for an additional year then trading them in. It

Lyca Group chief financial officer Richard Schäfer has been promoted to chief executive officer He joined Lyca two years ago from rival MVNO Lebara where he was group financial officer. Schäfer (main pic) has worked in UK and international telecoms for more than 22 years and has held positions at Three UK, Vodafone UK, Onecom,

Samsung Galaxy customers who want to fix their device repairs can now access the correct repair kits and genuine Samsung parts as Samsung’s Self-Repair program comes to the UK.

Handset manufacturers may have to redesign their devices by 2028 if a provisional agreement to require user-replaceable batteries EU is approved by the EU Parliament and Council.

EE plans to launch Full Fibre 1.6Gbps broadband service soon accompanied by upgraded hubs and routers. The super-fast service has been developed at BT’s research centre at Adastral Park and is built on a gigabit+ capable full fibre network which will be be EE’s fastest service available supporting multiple online devices with average speeds up

EE will tomorrow (Friday) open its newest retail concept, the EE Studio, located in its flagship store at Westfield, White City, West London. The Studio covers 4,325 square feet and aims to showcase state-of-art connectivity and technology solutions. Bridget Lea, Managing Director of Commercial at EE, said Studio concept has been developed over the years

MERGER OF VODAFONE UK & THREE UK TO CREATE ONE OF EUROPE’S LEADING 5G NETWORKS (London and Hong Kong, 14 June 2023) Vodafone Group Plc (“Vodafone”) and CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings Limited (“CKHGT”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (“CK Hutchison”), have entered into binding agreements in relation to a combination

Rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB), Ericsson, O2 Telefónica, and Vantage Towers are collaborating to develop 5G coverage along train tracks in Germany. The project, called Gigabit Innovation Track (GINT), has received € 6.4 million funding from the German government to provide high-speed data and phone connections to train passengers from all rail operations. A test

Virgin Media O2 has been named the best network in the UK for combined connectivity experience, according to mobile network benchmarking specialist GWS. GWS collects data from 17,500 local markets in 25 countries and collects more than 54 million data points collected daily from mobile consumers  For thee statistics it collected data over six months

Virgin Media O2 is to build or upgrade30 masts in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, as part of the Shared Rural Network program.