Amid confirmation that Vodafone has launched the U.K.’s first 3G femtocell service in the UK we may be entering a new period of growth in the UK broadband market. Femtocell services are readily available on the continent and effectively connect your handset to your broadband service, offering a wider coverage and potentially improved quality by [...]

As the likes of Virgin Media continue to make great strides in the UK broadband market, British Telecom sees more and more customers returning to the fold and Vodafone and Three Mobile take on the mobile broadband market, slowly but surely competition in the sector is coming under pressure. This is the reason why OFCOM [...]

After a disagreement which lasted for around three years there are rumours that Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse are looking to work together again in the future. Carphone Warehouse was flabbergasted when Vodafone decided to walk away from an agreement with the company back in 2006 but since then the company has gone from strength to [...]

In a worrying development for the UK mobile broadband sector it has been revealed that the UK’s leading mobile broadband providers have been unable to come to an agreement regarding the carve up of the frequencies available. As we covered in some of our earlier post, Vodafone and O2 have been under pressure for some [...]

Vodafone and O2 are locked in a bitter row the telecoms regulator Ofcom over the proposed division of their 900 Mhz bandwidth which is currently owned by the two leading mobile broadband operators. The row was broken out after the government release plans to provide broadband Internet access to every home in the UK by [...]

Vodafone has announced a successful trial of HSPA+, which is an upgraded version of super 3G which provides speeds greater than those available through HSDPA without attracting the 4G tag, but many suspect there is more to follow.
While the company is said to be very encouraged by the download speeds of 16 Mbps reached in [...]

As mobile broadband becomes ever more popular in the UK and overseas Vodafone has announced its intention to trial 21Mbps mobile broadband speeds on its Spanish network. The company has already successfully trialled a 16Mbps service which proved to be even more successful than the company had anticipated. While download speeds were very impressive we [...]

Maxine Smith, a councillor in Cromarty Firth is calling for a review of telecommunications companies who are failing to provide connectivity to rural areas of Scotland. She states that the lack of 3G Mobile Broadband is depriving the local communities of services that are the focus of the third generation of mobile phone standards and [...]