Telecoms
News | 08 Apr 2024
Ciena, Toshiba demo quantum-safe network
The quantum computing era and its upsides and downsides might still be years away, but the threat to communications network security set to be posed by cyber criminals armed with quantum computers is already being addressed by multiple telcos and vendors, with Ciena and Toshiba the latest to team up and show off their quantum-safe networking cap
News | 08 Apr 2024
New Omdia Research Reveals 2023 Semiconductor Market Revenue down 9% from 2022
Omdia’s latest Competitive Landscape Tool report reveals a downturn in the semiconductor industry, with revenue down 9% from $597.7
News | 05 Apr 2024
Ofcom launches 2026 wholesale telecoms review to power-up gigabit broadband rollout
Ofcom has today kicked off its review of the regulations that will apply to the UK wholesale telecoms markets from April 2026
News | 05 Apr 2024
Omdia: Global semiconductor supply chain set to see growth in 2024 as GenAI demand increases
New research from Omdia has revealed that the global semiconductor supply chain is forecasted to reach approximately $600 billion by 2024, having navigated through strategic inventory adjustments in recent quarters.
News | 04 Apr 2024
Zayo expands connectivity across Europe with new Waves on Demand service
Service offers customers dedicated 100G Wave routes across the continent in just five working days
News | 04 Apr 2024
Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Dafne Cerdán
Hello, I’m Dafne Cerdán and I am the Head of Marketing and Social Media at Weaver Labs, a Telecoms-software company building a blockchain-based network management tool to open up access to connectivity. I have experience working with a range of brands, including both start-ups and established companies.
News | 03 Apr 2024
Finchetto awarded £1m grant in SBRI Future Telecoms Challenge
UKTIN member company, Finchetto, has been awarded £1m to develop the world’s first fully optical switch for telecoms networks.
News | 02 Apr 2024
European mobile operators and GSMA unveil a pioneering manifesto for Europe’s digital future
A new digital infrastructure framework that fosters investment, innovation, and a harmonized digital market must be a priority in the next EU mandate
News | 02 Apr 2024
Spectrum Sandbox winners announcement
DSIT are pleased to announce the three winners of the Spectrum Sandbox competition. Each Sandbox project will test sharing of spectrum in Ofcom licensed Sandbox environments to indicate how regulation could be improved to maximise the use of this scarce resource and the benefits to the economy.
News | 28 Mar 2024
Eutelsat Group and Intelsat ink significant new deal for partnership on Eutelsat’s OneWeb Low Earth Orbit Constellation
- Strategic multi-year partnership valued at up to $500 million over duration, deepening long-standing cooperation between the two companies.
- Enabling Intelsat to expand integration of LEO into its GEO assets to deliver unparalleled customer solutions.
- Leveraging
News | 28 Mar 2024
Digital Connectivity Readiness Index sees infrastructure improvements across UK, but adoption progress stalls
Regular analysis by connectivity experts FarrPoint evaluates connectivity preparedness across the four UK nations
News | 27 Mar 2024
How can we support women in the telecoms sector?
Actions for industry, academia and policy makers
News | 26 Mar 2024
How organisations are embracing optical
As a part of UKTIN’s Optical-themed month, we spoke to Francesco Poletti, an academic professor at the University of Southampton, where he co-founded a start-up called Lumenisity.
News | 26 Mar 2024
Everything you need to know about the Security Expert Working Group Future Capability Paper
UKTIN spoke to Dave Happy and Dr. Greig Paul, Chair and Vice Chair of UKTIN’s Security Expert Working Group to learn more about its Future Capability Paper, which was published today.
News | 25 Mar 2024
Cheers and jeers as US grapples with spectrum logjam
Various efforts in the US from both sides of the political aisle to free up more mobile spectrum have gone down well in some quarters, but not so well in others.
News | 25 Mar 2024
Global telecoms kit market slides as carriers stop spending
And the picture remains gloomy into 2024.
New figures from Dell'Oro show a 5% year-on-year slide in the around US$100 billion market, a worse performance than it had expected, driven amongst other things by a slowdown in 5G and home broadband investments, as well as macroeconomic trends and the remains of a post-Covid hangover.
News | 22 Mar 2024
AST SpaceMobile updates licensing administration of its satellite constellation
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), th
News | 22 Mar 2024
OTT Business Messaging Traffic to Reach 175 Billion Globally by 2025, as Regulation Reduces Market Siloes
A study by Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications, has found that the total number of OTT (Over the Top) messages will increase from 120 billion in 2023 to over 175 billion in 2025; a substantial growth of over 70% in two y
News | 21 Mar 2024
Brazil plans regulatory sandbox for direct-to-device satellites
Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has announced a regulatory sandbox designed to support trials for direct to device satellite connectivity.
News | 21 Mar 2024
Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Richard Auld
Hello, I’m Richard Auld and I am a Director at SICOM, a network consultancy business that specialises in optical fibre solutions and infrastructure. Using “dark fibre”—a fibre that has not been lit and is private to the customer—we connect buildings.
News | 20 Mar 2024
New Chip Opens Door to AI Computing at Light Speed
Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption.
News | 20 Mar 2024
US Republicans introduce spectrum pipeline bill that favors high-power, licensed use
New bill requires at least 1,250 megahertz of spectrum between 1.3-13.2 GHz be auctioned for full-power, licensed commercial use
News | 20 Mar 2024
KAIST researchers claim world’s first neuromorphic LLM chip
A research team at KAIST has developed the world’s first AI semiconductor capable of processing a large language model (LLM) with ultra-low power consumption using neuromorphic computing technology.