Why the UK needs more ways to wiretap .... NOT

David Cameron has recently come out with the UK needs new laws to curb evil terrorists and as part of this process banning end-to-end securi...

Ofcom ups the power in the 1800MHz band

Ofcom , the Super Regulator, has made a statement allowing 1800MHz licensees to increase the power from 62dBm to 65dBm. The current licensee...

Ofcom proposing upping power on 1800MHz bands

Ofcom , the Super regulator, who look after radio spectrum is proposing to allow increasing the transmit power on the 1800MHz PCN band. Ofco...

C&W (Vodafone) and Urban WiMAX get 28GHz license variations

Ofcom has issued a statement with respect to the 28GHz Broadband Fixed Wireless Access (BFWA) licences of Cable and Wireless (now Vodafon...

Ofcom makes more spectrum license exempt

Ofcom , the Super regulator that looks after radio spectrum amongst other things, has made more spectrum license exempt. In the UK there is ...

EE and 3 may share 800MHz spectrum

Both EE and 3UK won 2 x 5MHz chunks of 800MHz spectrum in the recent UK spectrum auction for deploying LTE/4G mobile services. O2 /Telefon...

Ofcom announces 4G frequencies awards

Ofcom, the super regulator today announced the awards (and subsequent prices) for the 4G spectrum awards. Everything Everywhere Ltd, Hutchis...

Ofcom proposes to allow 4G on all 2G and 3G bands

Ofcom , the Super regulator, has opened a consultation to allow the liberalisation of all existing 2G and 3G bands so they can also be used ...

Ofcom announces bidders for 800MHz and 2.6GHz auctions

Ofcom the super regulator that covers amongst other things radio spectrum has announced the bidders that have been accepted for the 800MHz ...

Ofcom starts 800MHz and 2.6GHz auction race

Ofcom , the Super regulator that looks after radio spectrum (amongst others) has today released guidance for applicants and bidders PDF ) an...

Ofcom announces date for 800MHz and 2.6GHz auctions

Ofcom , the super regulator has announced that the auction for the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands will commence on December 11th 2012. The new regu...

EE to offer LTE for end of October

EE (the new brand that was Everything Everywhere) is to launch their LTE service on their 1800MHz spectrum by end of October 2012 covering ...

BT installs a lot of WiFi

BT has installed 500,000 (HALF A MILLION) WiFi access points in London and the Olympic Park in Stratford to cope with the number's of u...

Ofcom announces 4G auction

Ofcom the super regulator has published a statement on the forthcoming 4G auction of 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum. The 800MHz spectrum has be...

Ofcom Telecom Complaints Q1 2012

Ofcom the Super regulator that covers telecoms, broadcasting, spectrum, media and the postal system has released details about Telecoms com...

Vodafone to speed-up 3G uploads

Vodafone is upgrading base-station software in 3 of its markets (UK, Spain and Italy) that should see uplink speeds increase by around 40%....

Vodafone offers £1.04bn CW

Vodafone has made an offer of £1.04bn ($1.7bn) in cash for C&W (Cable and Wireless Worldwide). This works out at 38p per share which i...

Vodafone Home Gateway drops in price and becomes Sure Signal

Vodafone has renamed its home femtocell system from Vodafone Home Gateway to Sure Signal while also dropping the price from £160 to £50 for ...

Vodafone competition generates over 1,000 application ideas

Vodafone's Competition to get ideas for Android applications has now reached over 1,000 entries. The winner of the best idea will get £...

Vodafone and T-Mobile UK acquisition getting closer

Assuming there are no regulatory complaints, Vodafone may announce the acquisition of T-Mobile UK by next week. Deutsch Telecom may agree to...