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Written by Nick Wood

The UK's semiconductor research efforts will receive a boost after the government joined the EU's Chips Joint Undertaking (JU).

As a part of UKTIN’s Optical-themed month, we spoke to Francesco Poletti, an academic professor at the University of Southampton, where he co-founded a start-up called Lumenisity. 
 

UKTIN spoke to Dave Happy and Dr. Greig Paul, Chair and Vice Chair of UKTIN’s Security Expert Working Group to learn more about its Future Capability Paper, which was published today.

Various efforts in the US from both sides of the political aisle to free up more mobile spectrum have gone down well in some quarters, but not so well in others.

 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ:

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has announced a regulatory sandbox designed to support trials for direct to device satellite connectivity.

Anatel’s board of directors have implemented the sandbox in light of Brazilian mobile providers Claro and TIM’s plans to conduct trials with AST Space Mobile.

Hello, I’m Richard Auld and I am a Director at SICOM, a network consultancy business that specialises in optical fibre solutions and infrastructure. Using “dark fibre”—a fibre that has not been lit and is private to the customer—we connect buildings. 

Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption.

Ericsson and Nokia are reportedly expanding their in-house chip design capabilities to better compete in the 5G era.

The LLM generative AI chatbot can engage in human-like interactions with customers and handle more sophisticated customer requests.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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,

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.

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.

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.

The GSMA Equipment Marketplace cloud-based platform will help telecommunication providers around the world reuse, redeploy and recycle their network assets

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.