Telecoms
News | 19 Mar 2024
Ericsson and Nokia plan foray into chip development
Ericsson and Nokia are reportedly expanding their in-house chip design capabilities to better compete in the 5G era.
News | 18 Mar 2024
Vodafone youth brand VOXI becomes the first UK telco to launch a large language model generative AI chatbot to enhance customer experience
The LLM generative AI chatbot can engage in human-like interactions with customers and handle more sophisticated customer requests.
News | 18 Mar 2024
Netomnia and YouFibre secure additional £147.5m
News | 15 Mar 2024
Altnets want tougher punishments for attacks on physical infrastructure
A group of altnets say lengthy prison sentences for deliberately causing damage to fibre networks should be wielded as a deterrent against vandalism.
News | 15 Mar 2024
ORCA Computing and BT Group Showcase Technologies to enable Quantum Data Centres of the Future
ORCA Computing, in collaboration with BT Group, hosted a demonstration day at BT Group’s R&D centre – Adastral Park in Ipswich for businesses, universities, data centre providers and users.
News | 14 Mar 2024
Toyota Material Handling puts entire US factory on Ericsson private 5G network
Toyota Material Handling, the US-based forklift truck manufacturer, is running its business critical operations at its 200,000 square-foot (19,000 square-metre) factory in Columbus, Indiana, “exclusively” over an Ericsson-made private 5G network in CBRS spectrum, it has said.
News | 14 Mar 2024
Coming soon: Telecoms Investment Insights Report
Are you eager to gain insights into the complexity of telecoms and connectivity investments in the UK? Here's your chance to stay ahead of the curve.
UKTIN is due to unveil a report that dissects the investment trends shaping the future of the telecoms industry.
News | 13 Mar 2024
Nokia and Siemens Mobility to deliver mission-critical comms for driverless Western Sydney Metro
- Nokia collaborates with Siemens Mobility to provide state-of-the-art IP/MPLS backbone communications network and Nokia NetGuard Cybersecurity solution for the new Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport line.
- Will support highly secure mission-critical applications and passenger services across the
News | 13 Mar 2024
Vodafone extends collaboration with Intel on Open RAN
Companies increase the scope of the established collaboration with University of Málaga
Vodafone today announced an extension of its work with Intel on optimising advanced algorithms for use in Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) platforms.
News | 12 Mar 2024
Further agreement with telecoms firms to protect vulnerable customers
Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has secured a further agreement with telecoms companies to protect vulnerable customers as landlines are upgraded.
News | 12 Mar 2024
Meet the Expert Working Group Chair: Optical and Photonics
The UKTIN Expert Working Groups bring together academic and industry leaders and experts, governmental and regulatory specialists, and representative bodies to explore the opportunities, gaps and challenges in the UK telecoms ecosystem.
News | 11 Mar 2024
Rakuten Symphony unveils revolutionary network monitoring solution powered by eBPF Technology
BARCELONA – In a ground-breaking development, Rakuten Symphony is proud to announce the successful implementation and testing of its innovative eBPF technology within the fully virtualized radio access network of Rakuten Mobile.
News | 11 Mar 2024
Boldyn Networks closes acquisition of Cellnex's private networks business
London, UK – Boldyn Networks (Boldyn) today announced the close of its acquisition of Cellnex's private networks business unit.
News | 11 Mar 2024
Federated Telecoms Hub Launches 6G Research Partnership Funds
EPSRC and DSIT have funded three future Telecoms Hubs and provided additional resources to bring them together in a federated structure, which will help deliver the six core areas identified in the Wireless Infrastructure Strategy.
News | 08 Mar 2024
Telecom is going quantum dotty
- Quantum dots tuned to C-Band telecoms frequencies will be compatible with existing fibre-optic telecoms networks
- This offers enormous potential for global quantum telecoms networks and the quantum internet of the future
- Tiny semiconductor particles can, according to their size, emit
News | 08 Mar 2024
The US explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air
Written by Katyanna Quach
Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up.
News | 07 Mar 2024
GSMA and UK FCDO Deepen their Commitment to Digital Development Through Renewed £37.3M Funding Partnership
New phase of the strategic partnership to support GSMA Mobile for Development’s focus on digital and gender inclusion, climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, and digital innovation in low- and middle-income countries.
News | 07 Mar 2024
Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Graham Reed
Hello, I’m Graham Reed and I am the Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. The university recruited my entire group in 2012: in those days, it was 13 people but now it's 56. Our team has grown a lot, largely on the back of grant success and the incredible facilities.
News | 05 Mar 2024
SONIC Labs -Technology Access Programme
Open RAN Energy Efficiency Challenge
SONIC Labs Technology Access Programme (TAP) is an 8-month structured programme developed by Digital Catapult in collaboration with Ofcom, running from June 2024 to January 2025.
News | 05 Mar 2024
UKTIN's highlights: TOP Conference 2024
TOP Conference 2024 took place from the 21st to the 22nd of February, returning for its third year to 133 Houndsditch, London. The comprehensive two-day programme covered eight topic areas across the two days, featuring experts from across the industry and academia.
News | 04 Mar 2024
Joint Statement Endorsing Principles for 6G: Secure, Open, and Resilient by Design
The Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom concur on these shared principles for the research and development of 6G wireless communication systems; and recognize that by working together we can support open, free, global, interoperable
News | 04 Mar 2024
Vodafone and EE complete their 3G shutdowns
The end of the 3G era is inching closer in the UK, after Vodafone and EE switched off their final remaining sites.
News | 01 Mar 2024
UK and US among 10 governments backing 6G security wish-list
It is essentially a consensus-building exercise that provides the US and its allies with some handy reference material to use when the time inevitably comes to block telcos from using Huawei and ZTE kit in their 6G networks.
News | 01 Mar 2024
Vodafone’s Open RAN network-in-a-box to launch in June
BARCELONA – #MWC24 – Vodafone’s Open RAN network-in-a-box, which was unveiled just ahead of last year’s MWC event, is in the final stages of commercial preparation and will become available in June, according to Yago Tenorio (pictured above), Vodafone fellow and network architecture director at the operator.