Archive for the ‘Mobile Broadband’ Category
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
UK carrier O2 finds itself embroiled in data protection controversy today, with allegations that the operator is revealing mobile users cellphone number to each website they visit on their phone. According to Lewis Peckover, buried in among the header data from each O2 visitor is a line revealing their own mobile number; he set ...
Posted in 3G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks, O2 |
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Integrated data connections in tablets along with mobile hotspot connected slates are falling from favor, new research suggests, with WiFi-only use proliferating among owners of iPads and other models. While 60-percent of tablet owners used WiFi only and 5-percent reported some intent of subscribing to a mobile broadband plan within the next ...
Posted in 3G, Computing, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks |
Monday, November 14th, 2011
O2 has launched its first 4G LTE network in the UK, kicking off a trial of the high-speed service in London that will offer testers up to 100Mbps. The scheme will run for nine months, with 25 sites going live in November and that being ramped up until a total combined area of 40km ...
Posted in 3G, 4G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks, O2 |
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Ninety-seven per cent of the traffic carried on the Three network is data, according to a company blog posted this afternoon. Do people even make phone calls anymore?
The British Telco angled themselves as a 3G data network when they started in 2003 and that's now one of their big selling points: usually ...
Posted in 3 / Three, 3G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Internet, Mobile Networks |
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Three, Orange, T-Mobile ink £100m deal for extra grunt
Three, T-Mobile and Orange customers will find it quicker to use the internet on their phones thanks to a new deal between the operators and Virgin Media Business. But the effects may take a couple of years to kick in.
Virgin Media has ...
Posted in 3 / Three, 3G, 4G, Broadband, Mobile Broadband, Orange, T-Mobile |
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Network teams up with Countryside Alliance
If you live in the good-old English countryside you're lucky enough to breathe the fresh air everyday, take long walks without risk of being run over by a Boris bike and drink a pint of proper beer that costs less than £4.50.
But chances are, you ...
Posted in 3 / Three, 3G, Mobile Broadband |
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Today Three announces a new, high speed Mobile Wi-Fi device – the Huawei E586 MiFi - which will be the first mobile Wi-Fi device in the UK to feature next generation HSPA+ mobile broadband technology.
The new MiFi will allow customers to experience significant speed gains compared to the existing award-winning ...
Posted in 3 / Three, Mobile Broadband |
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Box of MiFi tricks up its sleeve
Network giant Orange has refreshed its mobile broadband plans while touting a new Wi-Fi device for those on the move.
Orange's 'Small' plan offers an initial allowance of 500MB and costs £10 a month. Although for a fiver more, customers can benefit from the 'Medium' ...
Posted in Mobile Broadband, Orange |
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Clearwire, America’s WiMAX operator that supplies Sprint with their 4G network and is also facing some serious financial woes, has announced a new piece of hardware, the Clear Spot 4G Apollo. It’s a portable WiFi hotspot, meaning it takes the WiMAX signal that’s hopefully in your neck of the woods and ...
Posted in 4G, Mobile Broadband, Other News |
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Mobile operator T-Mobile UK, which in recent times has perhaps become better known for restricting its Mobile Broadband data allowances instead of raising them (here), will from next month launch a new "truly unlimited internet" service with "no fair use limits or run on rates" for Smartphone users.
ISPreview.co.uk understands that the new ...
Posted in 3 / Three, Mobile Broadband, T-Mobile |
