5G DRIVE (Diversified oRAN Integration & Vendor Evaluation) was funded by the Department for Science Innovation & Technology (DSIT) under the Future RAN Competition (FRANC) programme. It developed a low-cost, secure 5G Diversified Open RAN Integration solution for private mobile networks. This solution integrates seamlessly with public networks using modern internet protocols.
Today at UKTIN we’re proud to be celebrating National Engineering Day, an awareness day that aims to make the UK's engineers and engineering more visible, and celebrate how they improve everyday lives and shape the world around us for the better.
Engineers play a critical role in our sector and our sector really does underpin all others. In many ways therefore our telecoms engineers are the unsung heroes of our everyday lives: enabling communication, commerce and the delivery of public services.
A new innovation project is steaming ahead in Dorset to test if WiFi can work on even the most rural and oldest railway networks.
Dorset Council has been awarded £163,000 government funding from DSIT (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) to bring 21st century technology to Swanage Railway.
As part of the national Rural Connectivity Accelerator programme, Swanage Railway will be a testbed on how innovative connectivity has the potential to boost the rural economy.
At the end of October, UKTIN invited a select group of investors to a VIP lunch. The aim? To facilitate a frank conversation about the future of connectivity, the perceptions of telecoms among the investor community and the opportunities available in our sector.
It was a fascinating and at times robust discussion which covered everything from how we define telecoms to the impact of geopolitics. Our key highlights are below:
Setting a new standard in business networking with unparalleled fiber and 5G convergence in a single device
Virgin Media O2 has today announced an agreement to sell an 8.33% minority stake in mobile tower joint venture Corners
The project aimed to transform the C-PON architecture from TRL3 to TRL6, focusing on energy-efficient processing cells, intelligent processing steering, and the development of LLMs models.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued provisional approval for Vodafone and Three’s planned merger, indicating that the proposed £15 billion joint venture could proceed if certain conditions to protect competition and consumers are met.
Kester Mann, director of consumer and connectivity at CCS Insight said: “Vodafone and Three can tentatively order in the champagne as their blockbuster UK joint venture appeared to take another big step forward following a positive statement from the competition watchdog this morning.”
Hi, I’m Chris Murphy, a Chief Technology Officer for the EMEA region at VIAVI Solutions, an American company that manufactures testing and monitoring systems for communication networks. I have worked in telecoms for 25 years, beginning in product development and data-driven optimisation. My current role, however, focuses on technological change and how the industry is evolving.
A new report published by trade body the GSMA says there are 3.1 billion people who don’t use mobile internet services, despite living within reach of a mobile broadband network
Closing this ‘usage gap’ could mean a $3.5tn boost to the economy between 2023 and 2030, it finds
The biggest barriers to closing the void are device costs, lack of digital skills and illiteracy
The coverage gap, where people live in areas with no mobile broadband, stands at 350 million people
The GSMA estimates investment of $418bn will be needed to achieve universal mobile internet access