DySPAN 2025, the premier international conference on spectrum innovation, was held in London from May 12th to 16th at King’s College London. The event focused on advancing spectrum innovation to meet the growing demands for wireless capacity across diverse applications; DSIT, Ofcom, UK Spectrum Policy Forum, Digital Catapult, and international collaborators supported it. 

• Many major European telcos have been urging the region’s lawmakers to relax M&A and competition rules
• They claim that the only way Europe can compete is to allow companies to gain greater national and regional scale
• Now the EC has started a consultation process on its merger guidelines 
• But not everyone’s in favour of helping the regions’s big guns get bigger

Under intense lobbying pressure from a wide range of companies (including telcos of course) to revamp the European Un

• Together with Ericsson, Vodafone has introduced a new era of tunnel connectivity with the deployment of innovative multiband mobile radio antennas in the Arlinger Tunnel near Pforzheim, Germany
• This installation marks the first operational use of Ericsson’s advanced antenna technology from Ericsson Antenna System (EAS)
• It is precisely engineered to deliver robust and stable 5G coverage in tunnel environments subject to high levels of vibration and air pressure changes

The Arlinger Tunnel, stretching 1,400 me

Industry body Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) did some Wi-Fi 7 trials in relation to enterprise applications and says it clocked increased throughput, lower latency, and enhanced efficiency for high-demand applications.

• Security breach and apparent data leak put SK Telecom into a tailspin
• But South Korea’s biggest mobile operator says it’s determined to right the ship, re-establish trust and be reborn as “faithful to the basics and responsible”
• Even if that means replacing up to 23 million SIM cards 
• But customers are abandoning the SK Telecom ship

South Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is scrambling to reassure customers in the wake of a disa

• Toshiba Europe has announced a breakthrough in quantum communications over standard fibre-optic cable and at normal room temperature
• Simple chip technology replaces complex cryogenics to allow quantum communications over regular telecom infrastructure 
• It has also enabled the first deployment of twin-field quantum-key distribution (TF-QKD) over greater distances than possible with point-to-point QKD
• Possibility of building quantum internet between cities and countries gets closer

• Spain and Portugal suffered a major power outage this week
• Telcos scrambled to switch to power back-up options to maintain at least some services
• Ookla and Cloudflare have reported on the performance of the mobile operators and the impact on internet traffic volumes

• Opensignal surveyed customers of ‘brand MVNOs’ and their host mobile networks in seven markets, including the UK and US
• MVNO users are prepared to accept slower speeds for lower costs
• The MVNO market remains buoyant, with a recent uptick in activity in Europe

A new report has provided some insights into why mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) are continuing to attract more and more customers even when their service performance metrics are poorer than those provided to customers served directly by the hos

• Nokia to support Maersk's next-generation IoT connectivity platform with new mobile network to enhance operational efficiency.
• Nokia supplied its private wireless network solution including Shikra small cell equipment and MantaRay NM for network management.

Nokia announced that it has signed a contract with Danish global integrated logistics leader, Maersk, to equip 450 vessels in its fleet with Nokia's industry-leading private wireless network solutions.

• The major hyperscalers have reported their first-quarter 2025 financials
• Synergy Research Group has collected all the data
• AI workloads have fuelled a 23% year-on-year increase in the value of the global cloud infrastructure services sector to almost $94bn

While the hyperscalers might be rethinking some of their investment plans, the world’s enterprises aren’t holding back on their AI-fuelled cloud infrastructure services spending, with Synergy Research Group estimating that the value of the sector leaped by