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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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European Networks Leading Race to Net Zero with North America, MENA & LATAM Accelerating, New GSMA Climate Report Reveals
The GSMA’s 2024 Mobile Net Zero report spotlights regional leaders in cutting carbon emissions since 2019, led by a 50% reduction in Europe. Operator emissions have fallen despite surging demand for connectivity and data, thanks to progress on energy efficiency and renewables.
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GSMA and Shields Unveil New Commerce Platform to Help Telecoms Industry Meet Environmental and Financial Sustainability Targets
The GSMA Equipment Marketplace cloud-based platform will help telecommunication providers around the world reuse, redeploy and recycle their network assets
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Major future telecoms research boost announced
A major investment of £62 million will help to position the UK to shape the next generation of telecoms networks.
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Rakuten and OpenAI partner to deliver cutting-edge AI tools for telecom
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.
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Telco giants form JV to push telco-specific LLM plan
BARCELONA – #MWC24 – The founding members of the Global Telco AI Alliance, along with Japanese telco SoftBank, have unveiled plans during an SK Telecom-hosted press event here in Barcelona to establish a joint ventur
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AI-RAN Alliance launches at #MWC24
BARCELONA – #MWC24 – This year’s MWC kicked off with the announcement of a new telecom industry group, the AI-RAN Alliance, which boasts some of the industry’s biggest names as its founder members and sends a strong message to the mobile sector about the direction in which radio access network (RAN) architectures are heading.
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UKTIN member Quantum Dice working with BT Group to explore the use of QRNGs for cryptographic applications in telecommunications
UKTIN member Quantum Dice is leveraging its patented source-device independent self-certification (DISC™) protocol to develop the world’s first compact, high-speed, and continuously self-certifying quantum random number generator (QRNG).
This technology, which harnesses quantum processes to produce verifiably secure rand
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EU mulls easing merger rules for telecoms, Big Tech to help pay network costs
BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - EU regulators may ease their rules against mobile telecoms mergers and broaden telecoms rules to get Big Tech and others to help fund the rollout of 5G, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters.
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AI and analytics key to telco energy-efficiency efforts
Artificial intelligence, it seems, is the answer to most questions these days and it was no different when the audience of the recent Green Network Summit were asked to vote in a poll focused on network power reduction strategies.