Happy New Year.
We're excited for a great 2025 and look forward to working with you all in the year ahead. We're starting the new year with a bang, with our next event - focused on the transformative impact of advanced connectivity - scheduled for the 28 of January. We'd love to see you there.
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The UKTIN Team are taking a break and will be back on the 2nd January 2025. If you would like to do some reading of the Festive Season check out the UKTIN Expert Working Groups Future Capability Papers here.
The EU has signed off on IRIS², a multi-orbital constellation of 290 satellites aimed at taking on Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Europe has been searching for its answer to Starlink for some time, with European space firms in talks over a proposed joint project for months.
The 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme has seen 10 regions throughout the UK receive a share of £36m of funding as part of our wider programme to drive 5G adoption. Focusing on key sectors where there is local capability and opportunities, the projects aim to enable the UK to take full advantage of the transformative effect that advanced wireless connectivity and digital technologies can provide.
To ensure that SMEs have a front-row seat to telecoms standards making, our Standards Champion, Andy Reid, attends key standards meetings to observe, participate in conversations and report back on key themes and discussion points.
Here, Reid shares his reflections on the recent LFN meeting in San Jose.
What to find out more about LFN and open source projects? Read Reid’s last article here.
What were the hot topics in San Jose?
Hello, I’m Paul Rhodes, an independent consultant at Evolved Network Solutions. I have over 30 years of global experience in the wireless industry, working with telecom giants Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, CityFibre, and World Wide Technology. I am also a UKTIN Expert Working Group Member in Wireless Networking and a Special Interest Group (SIG) Champion at Cambridge Wireless.
Japan's NTT claims to have made a breakthrough that could herald a new era in high-capacity backbone networking.
Using multicore fibre cables and massive MIMO signal processing, it has achieved stable signal transmission at rates of up to 455 Tbps in a field test that simulated environmental effects such as wind, rain and civil works – all of which can affect signal propagation.
One of SpaceMobile's bigger financial backers Vodafone has agreed a 10-year deal to use its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.
The commercial agreement establishes a framework for Voda to provide space-based cellular broadband connectivity direct to devices throughout its operating footprint, as well as to other operators via its Partner Markets programme.
SpaceX notched a big milestone with a launch of its Starlink internet satellites on Wednesday night (Dec. 4).
A Falcon 9 rocket launched 20 Starlink spacecraft from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday at 10:05 p.m. EST (7:05 p.m. local California time; 0305 GMT on Dec. 5) and deployed them in low Earth orbit (LEO) about 61 minutes later as planned.
Thirteen of the newly launched satellites are capable of beaming service directly to satellites, rounding out the first shell of this specialized network.
The UK’s telecoms market is thriving, but understanding how the ecosystem is innovating can be difficult, especially considering the rapid advancements in academia. UKTIN is creating reports as part of our Market Research Insight series to delve into the telecom subsectors. The third report has just been published, focused on non-terrestrial networks in telecoms.