Telecoms

Netomnia, one of the fastest growing altnets in the UK, along with ISP sister company YouFibre, has raised a further £147.5 million, increasing its committed debt financing to £377.5 million.

A group of altnets say lengthy prison sentences for deliberately causing damage to fibre networks should be wielded as a deterrent against vandalism.

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has secured a further agreement with telecoms companies to protect vulnerable customers as landlines are upgraded.

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.

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.

London, UK – Boldyn Networks (Boldyn) today announced the close of its acquisition of Cellnex's private networks business unit.

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.

• 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,

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Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up.

Electric propulsion systems that generate power from the scant air in the outer edges of the atmosphere could drive satellites in very low Earth orbit (VLEO), without the need for conventional propellants – at least in theory.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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

The end of the 3G era is inching closer in the UK, after Vodafone and EE switched off their final remaining sites.

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.

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. 

A major investment of £62 million will help to position the UK to shape the next generation of telecoms networks.

Rakuten will collaborate with OpenAI to create solutions to address the unique needs and challenges of telecommunications operators when planning, building and managing mobile networks. The Rakuten AI platform will be expanded to include solutions for customer service, network optimization and predictive maintenance of telecom networks.