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Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Saba Al-Rubaye
Hello, I'm Saba Al-Rubaye, a Professor of Telecommunications and Autonomous Systems at Cranfield University's School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing. I also lead research and development at the Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre, focusing on advancing 6G technology, digital twin and air mobility solutions.

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PORT OF BLYTH BECOMES TECH HUB WITH PRIVATE 5G NETWORK INNOVATION LAB
A private 5G network-enabled Innovation Lab is set to transform the Port of Blyth into the UK North East’s premier technology hub, providing unprecedented access to 5G technology for industries in the North East region.

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Fixed broadband improving globally but the digital divide remains deep and wide
The UK has taken third place in new global rankings of broadband reliability by Opensignal, the independent and reliable analytics company specialising in “quantifying the mobile-network experience”.

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Telcos & AI
Back by popular demand after a successful launch in 2023, our special event that focuses on telcos and AI returns as a curtain raiser to this year's Great Telco Debate.
Dedicated to the emergence of AI and the opportunities for telcos, the Telcos & AI in-person summit covers the application of AI within network operations.

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Telefónica, Fortinet, Quantum XChange and Warpcom present innovative solution for quantum cyberattacks
Telefónica, leading telecommunications company, in collaboration with Warpcom, an iberian technology integrator, have teamed up with Fortinet and Quantum Xchange to develop and demonstrate the effectiveness of an innovat

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5G Innovation Region: Glasgow’s Smart and Connected Social Places
The 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme has seen 10 regions throughout the UK receive £36m of funding as part of our wider programme to drive 5G adoption.

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Driving Mass Adoption of Advanced Connectivity is a Big Challenge — but a vital one

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Samsung bolsters its on-device AI smarts with Oxford Semantic acquisition
With AI-enhanced devices increasingly finding their way into consumers' pockets, Samsung is keen to gain an edge over its rivals.
To that end, the Korean electronics giant has just shelled out an undisclosed sum for Oxford Semantic Technologies, a UK-based startup that specialises in knowledge graph technology.

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Juniper helps Telxius upgrade to 400G
Telxius has teamed with Juniper Networks to upgrade its global network to 400G to boost user experiences across its 100,000+ km footprint spanning Europe and the Americas.

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O-RANOS: FRANC Case Study
The O-RANOS project aimed to solve key challenges in creating seamless OpenRAN networks that work across both private and public domains. By addressing these challenges, the project sought to open up new business opportunities for both enterprise and public sector customers and to develop innovative use cases.

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Gov-backed UK Infrastructure Bank provides funding to another rural FibreCo
Cornish Wildanet attracts £35m investment from UKIB, days after the bank ploughed £150m into Hyperoptic.
Southwest fibre altnet Wildanet has become the latest UK challenger to attract investment from UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB), and has secured a revolving credit facility from Santander to boot.

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Everything you need to know: UKTIN’s Semiconductor EWG Future Capability Paper
A series of Future Capability Papers, authored by the UKTIN Expert Working Groups, are being published over the coming months. Find out more here.

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Reflecting on the DSIT FRANC projects
The previous UK Government’s £250 million 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy aimed to incentivise the industry to create new products and services to unlock the full potential of Open RAN.

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Standards: 3GPP Workshop on IMT-2030 use cases
To ensure that SMEs have a front-row seat to telecoms standards making, our Standards Champion, Andy Reid, attends key standards meetings to observe, participate in conversations and report back on key themes and discussion points.
Here, Reid shares his reflections on the recent 3GPP workshop in Rotterdam.

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GRAPHCORE JOINS SOFTBANK GROUP TO BUILD NEXT GENERATION OF AI COMPUTE
Written By Nigel Toon
Graphcore today announced that the company has been acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. Under the deal, Graphcore becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will continue to operate under the Graphcore name.

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Everything you need to know about Coventry’s telecoms landscape
Building on the UK’s regional and national strengths, UKTIN’s Clusters Group exists to provide an open forum for inter-regional collaboration, sharing of best practices, insights and dissemination of learnings.

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Keysight Joins the AI-RAN Alliance to Advance AI Innovations in Mobile Networks
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has joined the AI-RAN Alliance to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and innovations in radio access networks (RAN).

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Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of George Gibson
Hello, I am George Gibson, a co-founder at Streetwave. Our two-year-old start-up is a product of the Welsh Government’s charity incubator, The Alacrity Foundation. The organisation researches the biggest challenges facing UK society, and mobile connectivity has been identified as a fundamental part of that.

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Mobile core network market woes continue, market forecast to decline 10%, according to Dell’Oro Group
According to a newly published forecast report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, the Mobile Core Network (MCN) market 5-year cumulative revenue forecast is expected to decline 10 percent (2024-2028).

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5G Innovation Region: Greater Manchester’s Smart Decarbonisation Network
The 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme has seen 10 regions throughout the UK receive £36m of funding as part of our wider programme to drive 5G adoption.

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Our Future Capability Working Groups are Exploring the Future of UK Telecoms R&D

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Virgin Media O2 to buy spectrum from Vodafone/Three under new deal
Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone have brokered a new network sharing deal that will also see the former acquire spectrum from a merged Vodafone/Three, should that tie-up come to fruition.

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VMO2 finishes off first stage of SRN with ‘UK’s highest mobile mast’
Virgin Media O2 says it has completed the first phase of its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout, with the final ‘partial not-spot site’ installed at Glencoe Mountain Resort.