Ofcom has set a reserve price of £1.3bn for the auction of 4G mobile spectrum.
The telecoms watchdog has released a timeline of events leading up to the highly anticipated launches of the 4G services in May and June next year. Bidding will take place in January, with licences being granted in February and March.
The bidding will be held over secure internet connections and Ofcom claim that this stage could take “a number of weeks”.
Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards was quoted as saying:
“The entire industry is now focused on the…
Edita Lozovska - 12 November 2012 | comments. Read more
Good times have come to Orange’s fixed line broadband service – you might remember the subscriber base being at a standstill for two quarters in a row, followed by a rather slow growth of +1,000 which is better than no news, however nothing extraordinary to write home about.
Yet Q3 of 2012 has changed all that by bringing +9,000 newbies to the fixed line broadband side of the business. Not to mention, the glorious times that 4G services are to bring to the operator – lest we forget that Orange…
Edita Lozovska - 24 October 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that it’s not only Everything Everywhere that will launch 4G services in the UK – mobile operator, Three (3) might just join the fourth generation pack.
According to recent reports, the parent firm of Orange and T-Mobile agreed to sell off a chunk of its 4G approved spectrum to Three (3). This will potentially enable the mobile operator to offer much faster mobile broadband than the currently available 3G services.
Of course this is not a good deed moment from EE. The European Commisison has put forward a regulation…
Edita Lozovska - 22 August 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news comes from Orange as it has at last managed to grow its fixed line (home) broadband side of the business last quarter.
As a quick reminder, at the moment Orange is a part of Everything Everywhere (T-Mobile being the other half), which concentrates mainly on mobile services.
In terms of stats, Orange’s Home Broadband branch has managed to attract 1,000 new customers, taking it from 713,000 to 714,000 subscribers.
Not a huge change, Broadbandwatcher hears you say. Perhaps not, but it sounds very healthy seeing as the ISP has remained…
Edita Lozovska - 25 July 2012 | comments. Read more
More vouchers! Good news comes to consumers who are in the market for a new broadband bundle as Orange announced that it was doubling its landline to mobile minutes allowance to 1000 for its Broadband & Anytime Mobile Calls + 1000 UK Mobile Minutes.
The mobile operator and broadband provider also added a complimentary £40 M&S voucher to anyone who’s interested in the offer and would rather sign up online. The voucher is available until the 31st of July, while the package itself will be available until the 31st of…
Geoff Slaughter - 2 July 2012 | comments. Read more
Some of you might remember that Everything Everywhere (T-Mobile and Orange) has been very keen on 4G services, seeing as it reported on the progress of its fourth gen mobile broadband trial in a small Cumbrian community of Threlkeld.
Only a fraction (50) of households and businesses took part in the LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology based trial which reported back reaching speeds of 20Mbps. It is worth saying that EE is yet to report whether or not that figure is a maximum speed or an average.
The hardware premises used…
Geoff Slaughter - 27 June 2012 | comments. Read more
4G networks could be coming to the UK soon if a campaign by mobile carrier Everything Everywhere is successful. The firm, which was formed from a merger of T-Mobile and Orange, is urging consumers to join the ‘4G Britain’ campaign to force the government to speed up the introduction of the super-fast service. With handsets like the Samsung Galaxy S3 now sporting quad core processors under the hood it seems fitting that network speeds are finally catching up on smartphone performance.
Operators have been fighting over the distribution of…
Newsman - 12 June 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news comes from Everything Everywhere as the joint venture between T-Mobile and Orange confimed the launch of its Smart Signal Sharing technology.
This means that if T-Mobile’s mobile broadband signal weakens, users will be automatically transferred to Orange’s 3G connection.
This is the final stage of EE’s planned merger which saw both T-Mobile’s and Orange’s services fully integrated as a part of a grand £1.5bn investment.
A large chunk of that money will go to preparing the networks for future 4G deployment.
CEO of Everything Everywhere, Olaf Swantee, recently said in a…
Geoff Slaughter - 24 May 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, T-Mobile and Orange (Everything Everywhere or EE) with a little help from YouGov surveyed 2,033 Brits to find out that the vast majority (74 per cent) could not wait for 4G mobile broadband services to be rolled out.
The giant is very interested in Ofcom giving it the green light to utilise the 1800MHz band by Q4 of this year in order to provide 4G services and the results of this study seem to feed the cause.
Commenting on the news, CEO or EE, Olaf Swantee, stated…
Edita Lozovska - 23 April 2012 | comments. Read more
You might have noticed that plans to form something potentially anti-competitive have been in the cards for some time now.
Broadbandwatcher is of course referring to the Mobile Commerce Joint Venture between O2, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere, with Three (3) nowhere near the radar.
As a quick reminder, Three (3) is the smallest mobile operator of the bunch, and a very outspoken one too. It criticised Ofcom’s upcoming auction on numerous occasions.
The EC (European Commission), has noticed that the joint venture can potentially pose as a threat…
Edita Lozovska - 16 April 2012 | comments. Read more
