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While end-of-year results are still coming in, 2023 revenue for OpenRAN products appears to have declined, following an impressive increase between 2019 and 2022, according to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group.

Three gathered journalists to the Glasgow City Chambers on a brisk February morning to unveil the project, which was described as a trial to improve urban connectivity by deploying a series of small cells on lampposts around the city, as an alternative to new macro sites.

Vodafone, together with Samsung and AMD, announced the successful demonstration of their first end-to-end data call using AMD’s new general-purpose processor on an Open RAN platform.

Hello, I’m Paul Patras: I am a co-founder and CEO of Net AI, which is a network intelligence company primarily based in Edinburgh, though our team is spread over three continents. I am also an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, the birthplace of the company.

Eutelsat OneWeb, part of Eutelsat Group, the world’s first integrated GEO-LEO satellite operator, and Intelsat, a leading provider of in-flight connectivity (IFC), have completed a series of historic demonstrations of inflight connectivity across the polar regions within the Arctic Circle.

Professional services outfit Ernst & Young (EY) is to open an edge technologies lab (EY Edge Technologies Lab) in London with US-based Dell Technologies to demonstrate and develop edge-based “ecosystem technologies” to help enterprises with digital transformation. The venue will focus on industry-specific use cases and prototypes, said EY.

New funding and support has been unveiled today to back British scientists working on world-leading chip development which could help to power advancements in AI and will underpin the technologies needed to reach net zero. 

Kyndryl has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop ‘responsible’ generative AI solutions and to accelerate adoption among customers.

Kyndryl and Google Cloud have worked together since 2021 to help global businesses with AI capabilities and trusted infrastructure.

Vodafone and e& have partnered to provide other operators with managed voice solutions.

The collaboration will support operator’s international voice traffic requirements and growth plans, as well as help meet the growing demand for voice over 4G/5G (VoLTE) services.

BT Group, Ericsson and Qualcomm have demonstrated end-to-end consumer and enterprise 5G differentiated connectivity enabled by network slicing.

The trial was completed on Ericsson’s 5G Core and Radio Access Network (RAN) technology in the UK with devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen for Galaxy Mobile Platform.

Nokia signs 5G patent cross-license agreement with vivo

• The UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit initiative is gathering pace
• It is providing network capital expenditure funding for fibre rollouts to rural and hard-to-reach areas and will enable 85% national coverage with gigabit broadband by 2025
• Contracts worth some £1.1bn have been allocated so f

Hello, I’m Priya Kurien and I lead the research in the telecom industry in IBM’s thought leadership division, the Institute for Business Value (IBV). I create insights on trends and business imperatives, while also considering the challenges that telecom executives face.

Industry’s leading AIOps and virtual network assistant expanded with first integrated digital experience twinning and end-to-end insight across campus, branch and data center infrastructures; new additions to industry’s simplest and most flexible AI Data Center solutions that drive even more speed, scale and value

AI training initiative is first in series of new GSMA Advance courses aimed to build skills, foster innovation and champion workforce diversity 

Access to finance is a major barrier to UK SME growth, particularly in high technology sectors like telecoms and for upstream technology capabilities such as photonics and cyber security.

With innovative connectivity becoming more and more crucial to competitiveness and security, telecoms investment reached a record €59.1bn, while 6 in 10 Europeans had access to FTTH by the end of last year.

UKTIN spoke to Tim Hatt, Head of Research at GSMA - a non-profit industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide - to learn more about NTN, discussing his trend research and reports. 

NTN has come a long way: there are currently around 1,000 active organisations in the UK and visitors to Barcelona next month can expect to see a plethora of companies at MWC.

The UK’s telecoms market is thriving but understanding how the ecosystem is innovating can be difficult, especially considering the rapid advancements in academia.