Selfie Nation

We (the British public) took an estimated 1.2 billion selfies over the last year - that's according to Ofcom's latest Communications Market Report. The 2015 report gives some interesting data on the UK's use of Smartphones, TV, Radio and other forms of communication. The following charts give some highlights of the report (all sourced from the report).

The Demise of the Desktop

TV is for the Grandparents...

...So is Samsung

And YouTube is for the Kids

Netflix Rules

We're obsessed with Email

Who doesn't use Social Media?

That's just some of the interesting charts and data from the report. I highly recommend giving the full report a read or a skim through at least.

4G Bid Results

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator has today announced the winners of the 4G auction that's been taking place over the last couple of months. There were five winners of the auction; Everything Everywhere (EE), Hutchinson 3G UK Ltd (Three), Niche Spectrum Ventures Ltd (BT), Telefonica UK (O2) and Vodafone.

Between the five bidders £2.3 billion was raised with Vodafone paying for the most bands at a cost of £790 million. This is only 2/3 of the £3.5 billion that the UK government was hoping to get from the bidding process. Everything Everywhere (EE) has struggled to attract users to their existing 4G services which they released a few months ago and the UK government are already makes plans for 5G services to come online in less than ten years time. Is this why the bids are so low?

The bidding breakdown is as follows:

Telefonica (O2) who have won the bid for some of the 800 MHz spectrum are obliged to provide coverage to 98% of the UK population by 2017.

Mobile companies are expected to release their services within the next six months which should create quite a bit of competition on both price and data allowances.

Are you planning on switching to 4G? Are you already on 4G? What do you think? Leave your comments below.

4G Bidders Announced

Ofcom have released the names of the seven companies that will be bidding for the 4G spectrum in the UK, the companies are Three, O2, Vodafone, EE, HKT, MLL, and BT. Bidding will take place in the new year with services expected to start in the spring.