UKTIN spoke to Tim Hatt, Head of Research at GSMA - a non-profit industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide - to learn more about NTN, discussing his trend research and reports. 

NTN has come a long way: there are currently around 1,000 active organisations in the UK and visitors to Barcelona next month can expect to see a plethora of companies at MWC. As a part of UKTIN’s NTN-themed month, we spoke to Simon Watts, a principal consultant at Avanti Communications and Richard Johanson, CEO at Archangel Lightworks.

The UK’s telecoms market is thriving but understanding how the ecosystem is innovating can be difficult, especially considering the rapid advancements in academia. UKTIN is therefore creating Market Research Insights Reports delving into all areas of the sector: bringing together industry, government and academia, the network is uniquely positioned to collate, assess and relay this information, aiming to overcome fragmentation in the sector and inform future activity.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published a white paper that articulates some of the high-level cyber security insights identified, by NCC Group for DSIT, in a review of a cross section of the 5GTT projects in the programme. It also aims to identify good security approaches that future projects should consider when planning similar deployments of 5G technology.

UKTIN spoke to David Pedley, a 5G Technical Delivery and Security Lead advising the UK Government.