The Independent Spectrum Broker admits moves toward Digital Britain came at “wrong point in the electoral cycle.”

The BT Group is waging a war on two fronts: versus the Government on one side, battling TalkTalk and Sky on the other.

As progress is made on one of the Digital Britain proposals, it’s emerged that if the current Government loses the next election another will be abandoned “as soon as possible.”

A new report’s been released that highlights the problems consumers and small businesses are having with their mobile operators. The Communications Consumer Panel (CCP) says that, as things stand, not even 2G coverage across the UK is up to scratch – never mind networks capable of supporting mobile broadband.

The merger of Orange and T-Mobile is almost certain to cast further doubt over the speed of mobile broadband roll-out plans and further delays are possible if 3 were also bought.
That is the conclusion of Matt Hatton, Principle Analyst at Analsys Mason. He has been looking at the current consolidation in the UK mobile market [...]

The Ashes approaching and then reaching a dramatic climax at the same time as the Premier League season got underway has given Sky a record number of new customers for its Sky Sports and News mobile television package as well as its 24-7 football goals and highlights service.
The surge in interest is bound to put [...]

OFCOM has published predicted coverage maps for each of the UK’s five 3G mobile operators.

Plans to use ‘digital dividend’ spectrum, freed up by switching off analogue tv, to bring mobile broadband to not spots have two fatal flaws, according to the former Chief Strategy Officer at the GSM Association, Ameet Shah.
Not only will auctioning the airwaves in equal licences leave mobile operators with services that are not economically viable, [...]

If you’ve not got time to read the full 245 pages of Digital Britain, Samknows.com is here to help you understand what it means for the country’s online future. Because it’s a special occasion we’ve got our first ever interview with Samknows co-founder Alex Salter.

Analysis of the European mobile broadband market by Ronan de Renesse, Senior Analyst at Screen Digest, points to a marked slowdown in growth in the next two years.

Vodafone and O2 can breathe a sigh of relief. A Government spectrum farming report has decided that neither company should be forced to give up any of its most valuable mobile broadband spectrum. However, the carrot of spectrum released by switching off analogue tv in 2012 remains in front of the pair to tempt them [...]

It had people scratching their heads back in 2005 as to where the reported ‘synergies’ were and so news that eBay is to dispose of internet telephony business Skype next year is not entirely surprising. It comes at a crossroads for the internet telephony company, however, as it tries to convince mobile operators to allow [...]

There’s the usual flow of product launches and press releases at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, many of which relate to mobile data and broadband.
While LTE and WiMax jostle to capture the technology spotlight there is much talk of the need to release more spectrum for use by smarter mobile devices and for [...]

OFCOM are having another go at achieving consensus on liberalising the use of some mobile phone spectrum with a view to promoting competition and innovation. At the same time Lord Carter has appointed Kip Meek as a “Captain Scarlet” figure to head the challenge to the Mysterons of the mobile phone companies. Meek has been [...]

At a recent LTE summit Hank Kafka, vice president of network architecture for AT&T, said that ”an LTE network running at full capacity on a 5 x 5 MHz channel could deliver 1 megabyte of capacity to a user at the cost of 0.10 euros” in other words just under 10p per MByte or £100 per GByte. [...]

Mobile broadband is often in the news, not least because the growth in the market is quite fast. At least part of the growth may be down to users signing up to 12 or 18 month contracts in order to get a “free” laptop, printer or other gadget.
Carter’s “Digital Britain” interim report also dangles mobile [...]