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Vodafone launches ‘Work and Play’, offering users a second broadband line

Vodafone has launched ‘Work and Play’, a new service giving anyone the opportunity to purchase a second broadband line dedicated entirely to home working, including customers new to Vodafone. This frees up people’s existing broadband to serve everything else, making family bandwidth battles a thing of the past.

Connected UK Vodafone UK

·6 years ago

EE launches BT Sport in a Box with Google Chromecast

EE has launched a new ‘BT Sport in a Box’ package for pay monthly customers giving them access to the streaming service along with a Google Chromecast.

Deals EE UK

·6 years ago

Virgin Media connects 2,500 homes in Leasowe to ultrafast broadband

Virgin Media has connected 2,500 homes in Leasowe, Wirral, to its ultrafast broadband network, which will bring the UK’s fastest widely available speeds to the area.

Connected UK

·6 years ago

EE completes 500th new site for Emergency Services Network

EE has completed the build of its 500th new site for the Emergency Services Network (ESN), located in Glencoe Scotland.

Connected UK EE

·6 years ago

O2 unveils living billboard in Shoreditch

O2 has unveiled a plantable living billboard to celebrate the network’s ‘Go Green’ initiative as a part of its four-week ‘Go’ campaign on Priority.

O2 UK

·6 years ago

Vodafone switches on First Rural OpenRAN site

A rural OpenRAN site is the first of around 100 rural OpenRAN sites that Vodafone will deploy in the UK with the vRAN supplier Mavenir. The first site is connecting Vodafone customers around the Royal Welsh Showground in Powys, Wales.

Connected UK Vodafone UK

·6 years ago

Vodafone VeryMe programme launches Gifting

Vodafone UK’s customer loyalty programme, VeryMe, has launched ‘gifting’, enabling customers to donate their rewards to friends or family regardless of what mobile network they use.

UK Vodafone UK

·6 years ago

Ofcom confirms 5G Spectrum Auction in January 2021

Ofcom has confirmed plans to auction important airwaves to help improve mobile broadband and support the rollout of 5G. Ofcom manages the UK’s airwaves – or spectrum – a finite resource that is essential for wireless services including mobile phones.

5G Connected UK

·6 years ago

Virgin Media now the largest Gigabit Broadband network in UK

Virgin Media has now become the largest gigabit broadband network in the UK, supplying 3.6 million premises with its Gig1 gigabit fibre speeds.

Connected UK

·6 years ago

Centrica and Vodafone to build gas plant of the future

Energy giant Centrica and Vodafone are to build the gas plant of the future at their Easington facility by launching the first 5G ready mobile private network (MPN) for the oil and gas industry.

Vodafone UK 5G Connected UK

·6 years ago

Huawei invests £10m in marketing for UK MateBook laptops

Huawei has announced more than £10m in marketing investment for its MateBook laptop range in the UK. The investment comes as Huawei continues its rapid growth in sales for its ecosystem of devices, with its laptop business in particular achieving more than 120% year-on-year growth globally.

Huawei UK

·6 years ago

Is Telecoms Customer Experience Fit for Purpose in the Time of Covid-19?

Due to internet connection problems, 8.5 million UK households suffered work, schooling or entertainment disruption, or were cut off from their families, during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Opinion UK

·6 years ago

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