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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.

Among the Africa AI use case applications identified, the vast majority are related to agriculture, climate action and energy, according to the GSMA

New artificial intelligence (AI) applications could boost Africa’s economic growth by $2.9 trillion by 2030, according to a new GSMA report.

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.

A series of Future Capability Papers, authored by the UKTIN Expert Working Groups, are being published over the coming months. Find out more here.

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.

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. 

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).

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.

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).

Using Samsung S24 smartphones as cameras, along with core and RAN gear from Cisco, Orange says it will capture footage that traditional systems would not.

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.

The Belfast 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme is working with businesses, academia, and the public sector to support the adoption of 5G and other advanced wireless networks across the Belfast Region. 

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.

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.

Nokia is splashing the cash in hopes of capitalising on the burgeoning US fibre market.

Amazon is talking up a new facility that will help it speed up the manufacture and ultimately launch of LEO satellites, but it has also quietly tweaked its timelines, meaning Project Kuiper will get off the ground a little later than planned.

A massive geomagnetic storm hit Earth on May 10-11, prompting the FCC to investigate its effects on telecom networks. Now, satellite companies, including SpaceX and Iridium, are detailing their experiences.

Dish Network's Boost Mobile unit has laid claim to becoming the first operator to commercially implement carrier aggregation (CA) on its 5G network.

As expected, India's latest 5G spectrum auction has drawn to a close, raising far less than the government hoped.

• A new independent report by FarrPoint, commissioned using data from four EE mast deployments, shows 4G mobile connectivity can generate more than £6 million for a rural community.
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Much of society runs on networks. This makes it vital to ensure that networks are efficiently powered while using existing energy infrastructure.

Hello, I’m Dave Hudson and the CEO of two companies, Mpirical and PQMS, the UK training subsidiaries of Swedish company Hexatronic, delivering connectivity solutions globally.