For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Nokia on Wednesday became the latest company to pull out of Mobile World Congress, following many other tech companies in reacting to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Amazon, Intel and Sony are among the companies that have already opted …
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In the wake of the UK and Europe approving Huawei to take part in 5G next generation wireless rollouts with some restrictions, Vodafone has given us an idea how long it’ll take to remove the controversial Chinese company’s equipment from its core networks. “This will take around five years to implement at a cost of approximately 200 million euros (around …
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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, …
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Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, Libra, has taken another hit, with Vodafone exiting the association. The international carrier is the eighth founding member of the group to leave, as reported earlier Tuesday by CoinDesk. The company’s exit follows the withdrawal last year of eBay, Visa, Mastercard, Mercado Pago, Stripe, Booking Holdings and PayPal. Libra confirmed the report about Vodafone on Tuesday. “Although the makeup …
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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: …
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UK mobile carrier Three switched on its 5G on Monday, but unlike other networks, it’s not for mobile phone customers — at first anyway. Instead, Three’s 5G offering is based around home broadband provision, using fibre-like, ultrafast speeds to provide an alternative to traditional broadband services. The buzz around 5G has so far focused on upgrading current 4G mobile networks, …
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Oh, the agony of indecision. It’s something the UK government knows a thing or two about. For a change, the big question the the country’s dithering over this week isn’t Brexit, but whether to allow mobile carriers to use Huawei equipment in their 5G network infrastructure. This dilemma has been quietly dragging on for months, and in the meantime, the …
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We can thank Europe for building much of what made the modern mobile phone. Companies like Nokia and Ericsson built the first blockbuster devices, and the continent gave us GSM, the network technology used around the world. With the latest generation in mobile data speeds, though, Europe isn’t leading, it’s following. Over the past year the US and South Korea …
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Vodafone on Wednesday switched on its new 5G mobile network in seven UK cities. Customers are able to choose between the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G or the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. Vodafone is also offering a 5G router for home and office services called the 5G GigaCube. The carrier is charging 5G customers the same as 4G, offering unlimited mobile data plans starting at …
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Britain is among the first countries in the world to launch a commercial 5G network. Leading the charge is EE, the nation’s largest wireless carrier, which switched on the service in six major UK cities. Armed with a OnePlus 7 Pro 5G handset, I’ve been testing the network in various 5G-enabled cities around the country and while I’ve had some …
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