Hello, I’m Tom Boyle, the Head of Telecoms at Sheffield Teaching Hospital: the combined acute and community NHS foundation trust covers most of the city’s adult community services, including two major hospitals and three specialised ones. I also consult at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust and co-chair the National Performance Advisory Group, which brings together NHS telecoms professionals. 

Standards meetings, with all their technical debate and social idiosyncrasies, can be daunting environments at the best of times. For small businesses and start-ups, butting up against much bigger players, they can be even more intimidating. 

The new way of connecting smart sensors fills out Vodafone's Internet of Things portfolio, ensuring there's a connection method to suit every need.

• Vodafone enables Long Term Evolution for Machines, an alternative Internet of Things service for customers to bring low-data use cases to life in an affordable way. 
• New offering sits alongside 4G, 5G and Narrowband-IoT services, as well as the wider partner ecosystem, to enable Vodafone to work with any business – irrelevant of the technical requirements of the Internet of Things use case. 

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Amazon.com sued Nokia in Delaware federal court on Tuesday, accusing the Finnish telecom company of infringing a dozen Amazon patents related to cloud-computing technology.

Adtran, in partnership with Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM), today announced the European and Asia-Pacific launch of its synchronization solutions featuring Iridium® Satellite Time and Location (STL) technology, a significant step in countering growing threats to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).

Quickline, a rural fibre and wireless broadband altnet, has bagged £250m in fresh funding from the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) and NatWest to support its network rollout in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.

The debt package comprises a £125m term loan and £100m debt guarantee from UKIB along with a £25m term loan from NatWest.

Following a short investigation, the European Commission (EC) has “approved unconditionally” the planned $14bn acquisition of Juniper Networks by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), stating that the “transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area (EEA).”

5G-connected technologies in public buildings could help councils slash their energy bills, saving taxpayer cash and reducing their carbon emissions.

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it will initiate the commercial deployment of New Radio-Dual Connectivity (NR-DC) across three frequency bands---Sub-6 (3.7GHz and 4.5GHz bands) and millimeter-wave (28GHz band)---for high-speed transmissions connecting two 5G base stations and simultaneously transmitting/receiving across multiple frequencies supported by these stations.

A series of Future Capability Papers, authored by the UKTIN Expert Working Groups, are being published over the coming months. Find out more here.

UKTIN spoke to Neil McRae, Chair of the UKTIN Core Networking Expert Working Group, to learn more about the group’s paper.