• India Mobile Congress 2024 (IMC24) has opened its doors in New Delhi 
• Airtel’s Sunil Bharti Mittal joins rivals Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea to press the government for an auction of satellite broadband spectrum 
• They want a level playing field between satellite providers and traditional telcos but they might be out of luck  
• Jio is also pressing for domestic AI development and adoption as well as data sovereignty policies

India Mobile Congress 2024 (IMC24) – In

• Transatlantic partnership extends potential for capacity, speed and latency while reducing power usage on popular Europe/US route.
• Service trial spanned 8500km subsea and terrestrial route over live production network.
• 800GbE can support advanced network applications like AI data center networking, content delivery networks, and financial data hub connections.

Espoo, Finland – Nokia, Windstream Wholesale (WW), an optical technolog

Hello, I’m Professor Muhammad Ali Imran and I lead the Communication, Sensing and Imaging (CSI) Hub at the University of Glasgow’s Department of Engineering. I’m particularly interested in energy-efficient cellular systems and frugal networking solutions.

The European Commission will contribute €865 million to the development of fibre and 5G networks, among other things, over the next three years and is ready to call for proposals to spend its cash.

The pledge forms part of the Commission's ongoing CEF Digital programme whose overarching aim is to support and catalyse investment – public and private – in digital connectivity infrastructures of common European interest.

While it’s not time to break out the bubbly just yet, there are a few signs that the fortunes of the telecoms industry may have reached some kind of inflection point.

Earlier this month we were delighted to welcome journalists to the Smart Internet Lab in Bristol for our media launch of UKTIN’s R&D Discovery Toolkit.

It was a pleasure to talk attendees through the toolkit, the problems it solves, the process to create it and future plans. Plus of course, putting the toolkit through its paces in some live demos.

And here’s what the media had to say about the toolkit:

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 3GPP SA1 meeting in Maastricht.

• Deployable in under 48 hours, new T-Mobile 5G Advanced Network Solution delivers low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity for data-intensive applications from virtually anywhere

Bellevue, Washington –  introduced 5G On Demand; a complete, portable 5G private network and services solution that includes setup, teardown and network management.

Schiphol has activated Ericsson Private 5G to explore new applications of 5G

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints against six UK telecoms providers for failing to present information about mid-contract price rises in way that would be clear to consumers

All six were judged to have breached relatively new guidelines on the presentation of mid-contract price increases in advertising that came into force in December. As such, the watchdog has ordered all six to pull the ads in question.