EE has launched 25 new sites on Freshwave’s mobile infrastructure in the City of London, enhancing its 4G and 5G network.

Following a successful trial, the small cell project is now live increasing capacity and improving network performance for the telecom giant’s customers in London.

The 25 newly activated sites are strategically positioned throughout the Square Mile, covering key locations like St Paul’s Cathedral, Cannon Street and the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street.

Samsung Electronics teamed up with NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s largest mobile carrier, in August to jointly research the application of AI in next-generation mobile communications technology.

As AI technology expands across various industries and 6G communication becomes in earnest standardized, this collaboration aims to utilize the two companies’ extensive technical expertise and business knowledge to accelerate AI research in communications.

The partnership will not only improve network quality but also establish a foundation for the market’s transition into the 6G era.

A further 4,500 homes and businesses across rural West Yorkshire and the York area can now access the fastest, most reliable broadband on the market, thanks to broadband provider Quickline Communications.

The rollout is part of the government-funded Project Gigabit programme which will help to boost the region’s economic growth while addressing the digital divide affecting remote areas.  

• Research firm IDC predicts that datacentre electricity consumption worldwide will more than double between 2023 and 2028, reaching 857 terawatt hours.
• Increasingly power-hungry AI workloads are a major factor
• Rising electricity prices and growing carbon emissions add an urgency for datacentre efficiencies to be increased and greener energy sourced
• AWS, Equinix, Google, Microsoft are among those keeping the nuclear option alive

Datacentre electricity consumption is going to skyrocket.

As the vision for 6G begins to make its way from R&D to standardization, what are the trends and goals, both technological and societal, that will and should influence it?

Experts from across the telecom industry, government and academia gathered in Washington, D.C. this week at 6G Symposium to discuss both the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead as another generation of cellular technology takes shape—even with the current generation, 5G, still being fully implemented and understood as a business.

The Broadband Forum is working on an initiative aimed at delivering "significant power savings" for fibre service providers when customers access the internet.

Slated for publication in 2025, the project titled "Energy Power Saving Requirements, Test Plan, and Data Model" will establish key power-saving benchmarks for the industry to follow.

• Synergy Research Group has been tracking the cloud/datacentre sector for years
• It has just released its first-half (H1) 2024 overview for the market, which grew by 23% to hit $427bn
• The research firm highlights an AI-fuelled surge in datacentre investments, which grew by 30%

The value of the global cloud service and infrastructure sector grew by 23% year on year in the first half of 2024 to reach $427bn, with AI trends driving cloud services demand and a surge in datacentre infrastructure investments alike,

Currently, there are 329 commercial 5G networks worldwide, according to 5G Americas

Global 5G connections exceeded 2 billion connections at the end of the second quarter of the year, with the addition of 192 million connections during the period, according to a new report by 5G Americas and Omdia.

• T-Mobile US, Nvidia, Ericsson and Nokia are jointly investing in an AI-RAN Innovation Centre
• The facility will be based at T-Mobile US’s headquarters campus in Bellevue, Washington
• The partners will develop mobile network systems based on AI functionality, “revolutionising the capabilities of radio access networks”  
• The end results “will make the promises of Open RAN more viable, while also going beyond”, they claim
• The move signals a shift in mobile n

• Dell AI for Telecom program simplifies and accelerates AI deployments for communications service providers
• Dell extends collaboration with NVIDIA to transform telecom network operations with AI solutions, built on the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA 

• Dell collaborates with Lintasarta and SK Telecom to speed telecommunications AI adoption and innovation