Everything you need to know about Dorset’s telecoms landscape

Building on the UK’s regional and national strengths, UKTIN’s Clusters Group exists to provide an open forum for inter-regional collaboration, sharing of best practices, insights and dissemination of learnings. Its overarching aim is to advance the adoption of advanced connectivity and has been designed to ensure all regions and nations of the UK can benefit equally. 

India 5G auction ends with bids falling well short of reserve

As expected, India's latest 5G spectrum auction has drawn to a close, raising far less than the government hoped.

The Economic Times reports that bidding ended after just seven rounds, with the total weighing in at INR113 billion ($1.35 billion), a fraction of the INR960 billion ($11.49 billion) reserve price.

New research shows “life-changing” impact of EE mobile connectivity on Britain’s rural communities

  • A new independent report by FarrPoint, commissioned using data from four EE mast deployments, shows 4G mobile connectivity can generate more than £6 million for a rural community.
  • From farming and fishing to tourism and TV production, report analyses rural locations which have received new or enhanced 4G coverage to assess the economic and social impact.
  • EE has built more than 300 new rural mobile sites and upgraded over 1,500 more across t

Ericsson unveils new solution for intelligent use of energy in network sites

Much of society runs on networks. This makes it vital to ensure that networks are efficiently powered while using existing energy infrastructure. The new Site Energy Orchestration solution from Ericsson acts as an intelligent bridge between the radio access network (RAN) and power grids, optimizing operations to boost energy cost savings, reduce carbon footprint and open new revenue streams. 

Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Dave Hudson

Hello, I’m Dave Hudson and the CEO of two companies, Mpirical and PQMS, the UK training subsidiaries of Swedish company Hexatronic, delivering connectivity solutions globally. 

Mpirical focuses on mobile and wireless technology skills training and resources and has worked in more than 180 countries over the last 22 years. PQMS, on the other hand, specialises more on practical training for fixed fibre telecoms, working across four dedicated centres UK-wide.

BT Group rolls-out energy-saving ‘cell sleep’ technology to EE mobile sites nationwide

BT Group has implemented energy-saving ‘cell sleep’ technology across its EE mobile sites nationwide, following successful trials in each of the UK’s home nations.

‘Cell sleep’ software works by putting certain 4G LTE capacity carriers to sleep when the capacity is not needed, based on predicted periods of low traffic which have been established for each site through machine learning.