Hi, I’m Robert Searcy, a Sales Director at Vitruvi Software. We are an international construction management platform that provides intuitive tools to manage utility projects. The company is focused on utilities, with a particular emphasis on telecommunications networks. I have been working in this role for three years, and most of my clients are altnets, the alternative network providers in the UK, rolling out FTTP (Fibre To The Premises). 

Hi, I’m Jenny Lennon, a Managing Director at Hyperfast Networks, which is a part of the Fibrus Group. Over the last two decades, I’ve delivered connectivity infrastructure projects at BT and Openreach NI, working at the forefront of Northern Ireland’s digital evolution.

A forecast by Juniper Research predicts a significant increase in network API revenue from the $284 million operators are projected to generate in 2025.

The network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) business model put simply, means operators generate revenue by providing access to their networks to developers and third parties, which in turn enables external applications to interact with telecoms networks.

According to the latest research from Canalys (now part of Omdia), global shipments of smartphones fell marginally to 288.9 million units in Q2 2025, as modest consumer demand restricted market growth. Samsung was the largest vendor in Q2, shipping 57.5 million smartphones, up 7% year on year. Its performance was largely driven by its mass market-focused Galaxy A series. Apple finished second on the vendor ranking table, with iPhone shipments down 2% at 44.8 million units.

• Deliberate sabotage by “malign actors” is increasing under the cloak of “plausible deniability”
• The immense amounts of vital data carried by submarine cable systems cannot be replaced or even ameliorated by satellites or microwaves 
• Lack of a coherent global strategy to counteract sabotage has resulted in a seadog’s dinner of uncoordinated, patchy and partial responses
• Absence of concerted international action will eventually result in bigger, economically and socially paralysing outages and unrest

What is the ITU and what does ITU-T SG15 do?

ITU-T SG15 is the primary standards bodies for optical networking including access systems, core systems, and submarine systems, as well as all the necessary optical components including optical fibre. In addition, it sets standards for timing and synchronisation which are closely related. I set out a much more detailed introduction to the ITU-T and its Study Group 15 in our blog post from its previous plenary meeting. 

According to the Worldwide Software and Public Cloud Services Spending Guide published by International Data Corporation (IDC), public cloud services spending in Europe will total $229 billion in 2025 and will reach $452 billion by 2029, recording a five-year (2024-2029) compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19%.

O2 Daisy, the new B2B telecoms powerhouse created by the merger of Virgin Media O2 Business and Daisy Group, has today launched with a promise to provide the technology to “make every business better.” The new company, which, from the outset, is the country’s second largest small and medium-sized business solutions provider, will redefine the communications and IT experience for customers and support British businesses of all sizes.  

• Japan’s NEC and Toshiba are two of the leading lights in the quantum security sector
• They are claiming a quantum key distribution (QKD) ‘world first’
• The partners multiplexed and generated QKD signals in an all-optical network

In Japan, Toshiba, NEC and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) are claiming a significant breakthrough in the field of quantum-safe networking. 

• TelecomTV conducted its second quantum-safe networking market perception survey
• More than 240 individuals from the telecom sector responded
• We asked which network operators are regarded as leaders in the market, with the UK’s BT Group and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom topping the ranking

UK national operator BT Group is regarded as the leading telco pioneer in the quantum-safe networking sector, according to the results of a recent TelecomTV market perception survey of telecom professionals, with Deutsche Telek