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By now, we’re all familiar with the system that means when you buy a new phone, one company makes the device and another provides the network connectivity. It’s a tried-and-tested model, one that has served us pretty well over the years. But now one phone maker has decided to shake things up. HMD Global, the …

Mobile networks in the UK have been banned from selling locked phones that can only be used with one carrier. British telecoms regulator Ofcom announced the new rule on Tuesday, although it isn’t due to come into force until December 2021. Several phone networks in the UK, including EE, Vodafone and Tesco Mobile, sell phones as part of contracts that cannot …

Telephone engineer David Snowdon was just returning to his van after an assignment repairing a cell site when a car sped past him, spun around and stopped right in front of him. Two men got out of the vehicle and asked him if he had anything to do with 5G masts. “You better not be or there will be fucking …

Thinking of setting a phone mast on fire? Please don’t. 5G phone masts across the UK and several other European nations have been subject to arson attacks in recent weeks due to the circulation of scientifically unsound conspiracy theories linking the spread of coronavirus to telecoms equipment. In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Vodafone CEO Nick Jeffries said that 20 …

5G launched in the UK last year and now, at the start of 2020, all four major UK networks — EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three — offer it but to vastly different extents. To see exactly how the networks are performing, what speeds to expect and the extent of coverage, I toured the UK to test 5G in five major cities: London, …

BT’s mobile customers will be able to upgrade to 5G from Oct. 11 by piggybacking on EE’s network, said the company on Wednesday. The introduction of 5G is part of a raft of changes the UK telecoms provider is introducing as part of an overhaul of its products, customer service and company culture. The operator is bringing in a new …

T-Mobile is focusing its energy on tearing down Verizon’s 5G rollout, with the “un-carrier” launching an ad campaign against its rival on Wednesday. T-Mobile posted billboards across the US, including in New York’s Times Square, and also set up a Twitter handle full of memes and quizzes criticizing Verizon’s 5G pricing and lack of coverage maps. It also launched a …

Update, Sept. 18: We now have a retail model of the Galaxy Fold and have begun to review it. The Samsung Galaxy Fold is back, and promising better behavior. After design flaws began causing reviewers’ phone screens to break, Samsung postponed the Fold’s release date and went back to the drawing board to fix the problem. Now, a new and …

Britain’s 5G race is heating up following the launch of Vodafone’s 5G service in multiple cities across the country. The company is hot on the heels of EE, the UK’s largest carrier, which launched its own 5G service last month. To see how Vodafone’s new network compares, I headed out to test it at locations across London and Manchester. TL;DR: …

Update, Sept. 18: We now have a retail model of the Galaxy Fold and have begun to review it. 5G and foldables are the future of phones. But if you want both in one device, you’ll have to live in Korea, the UK or Germany. Samsung’s revamped Galaxy Fold, the company’s first foldable device, will be available in Korea on …