During 2025, Virgin Media O2 upgraded 4G and 5G services at 65 sites, improving coverage across more than 14,000 postcodes in Manchester.

Virgin Media O2 Business has launched a portable commercial 5G Standalone (SA) private network. The operator claims that the device is the UK’s first commercially available plug-and-play 5G SA private ...

People and businesses in the city of Manchester and key towns across Greater Manchester, including Wigan, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham and Bury, can now access O2’s most advanced mobile network yet, ...

The increased roll-out of 5G infrastructures across the world has led to the subsequent demand for private networks whose value to industries of varying form has now well been proven, and in an ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Virgin Media O2 and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have today announced a new collaboration to seize opportunities in the UK’s growing mobile private network market estimated to reach ...

Virgin Media O2 Business unveiled a Nokia-powered portable 5G standalone (SA) private network package that’s the size of a carry-on airline bag. The carrier claims it’s the first such device to be ...

UK mobile network operator Virgin Media O2 has expanded its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network to cover several major towns across Dorset. The telco has switched on its 5G SA network in Bournemouth, Poole, ...

Virgin Media O2 and Ericsson have partnered to demonstrate the potential of network slicing, with a trial that took place at MCM Comic Con in Birmingham. The trial saw the augmented reality eSport, ...

As is often the case in IT, a new technology gets hyped well before its time. Exhibit A: 5G. We know why: Companies (read "carriers," in this case) make major foundational investments that they want a ...

Virgin Media O2 has become the first UK telco to offer businesses a portable commercial 5G standalone (SA) private network (PN). Once plugged in, the new portable network enables companies to ...