Technology laboratories, startups and research institutions at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, near Didcot, are set to benefit from enhanced wireless 5G connectivity.

• China ended last year with almost 4.2 million 5G base stations, according to the country’s tech minstry
• That number is set to increase by more than 7% this year
• China’s three main operators already boast almost 1.2 billion 5G connections between them

Smart sensors have saved £32,000 by reducing how much city centre flowerbeds needed watering through the summer months.

The Smart City programme in Wrexham has also seen smart benches installed with free USB and wireless phone charging points powered by solar power.

The council has also installed sensors in public bins that plot waste collection routes based on how full they are to keep areas cleaner.

The flower bed sensors saved about £32,000, 1,000 litres of water and three hours in time each day over seven months, according to a council report.

A US appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest attempt to enforce network neutrality rules, ruling that broadband internet service providers (ISPs) are classified as offering “information services” rather than “telecommunications services”.

Up to 1,000 citizens across the West Midlands will benefit from improved social care provision, thanks to a groundbreaking collaboration between Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton Local Authorities’ Adult Social Care Teams. 

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The UK’s competition watchdog has launched a probe into IBM’s prospective acquisition of software firm HashiCorp.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a merger inquiry in late December to determine whether the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition”.

The CMA wants relevant stakeholder views about potential competition issues. Interested parties have until January 16 to comment, and a decision on the initial investigation is expected by February 25.

Swisscom kicked off 2025 by celebrating the early completion of its Vodafone Italia acquisition after receiving the outstanding green lights from regulators.

ABI Research’s 5th annual Trend Report identifies the 3 Space Technologies trends that will come to fruition —and the 3 that won’t—in 2025