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EU Commissioner visits London as UK researchers and businesses get access to more Horizon Europe funding calls for quantum and space research

Kit vendor Ericsson will inject €200 million over the next three years into its Athlone facility in central Ireland, in order to research open network management and automation capabilities for 5G.

The European Commission is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to its clamp-down on US Big Tech.

It has just imposed fines on Apple and Meta of €500 million and €200 million respectively after they were found to have breached the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Chip firm Intel and Arqit Quantum, which specialises in quantum-safe encryption, have launched a security solution in which even they “are outside the trust boundary.”

Rakuten Mobile and AST SpaceMobile have announced the completion of what they say is the first-ever broadband video call between unmodified smartphones in Japan using a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite.

• India’s two main telcos, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, have built nationwide 5G networks
• As well as marketing 5G mobile packages, they have both been offering 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband services
• Jio is currently dominating India’s 5G FWA sector with a near 85% market

Vodafone, Austria-based A1 and Ericsson have reached a new 5G standalone (SA) milestone that shines a light on the technical complexity of taking this technology across borders.

German incumbent Deutsche Telekom is going to great lengths to demonstrate its quantum networking prowess.

Londoners experience a poorer quality of experience on 5G mobile networks than residents of other UK cities and the gap appears to be widening, according to new data published this week.

According to the Worldwide Security Spending Guide published by International Data Corporation (IDC), European security spending is projected to grow by 11.8% year on year in 2025.

44% of UK respondents said they used AI in a professional setting, compared to the global average of 67%, according to a report by EY.

Hello, I’m Dimitrios Pezaros, a professor of Computer Networks at the University of Glasgow.

• The UK universities of Bristol and Cambridge have been collaborating on quantum-safe networking developments
• They have achieved live, quantum-secure transfer of encrypted medical data, secure remote access to a distributed datacentre and the world’s first long-distance quantum secured video call.

The UK government has found £121 million at the back of the sofa to throw at quantum research, which it says will “bolster the UK’s world-leading research programmes.”

According to a new report from global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the total number of active LEO (including VLEO) satellites in operational orbit will increase from 7,473 in 2023 to approximately 42,600 by 2032.

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, telecom operators scaled back wireless and wireline investments in 2024.

T-Mobile plans to test Nokia equipment in the 7GHz band to 'support the advancement of potential future wireless technologies.' That's likely a nod to forthcoming 6G technologies.

To become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is the objective of the AI Continent Action Plan launched today.

Today we announce our collaboration with Dexory to provide a warehouse inventory management service. This solution integrates our IoT technology with Dexory's autonomous robots, equipped with AI.

As connectivity becomes crucial for business, industry, and society, the UK's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) seeks innovative solutions through its Open Network Programmes.

In sum – what you need to know

Private wireless surge – private wireless growth catches Dell’Oro by surprise, as private 4G/5G RAN sales jump by over 40% in 2024, reaching 3-5% of total RAN sales.

Vodafone says it has more than doubled its number of Internet of Things (IoT) connections in the last five years, with a heart monitor becoming the 200 millionth.

A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications, has found operators will increase their annual investment in AI to $22 billion by 2029; rising from $13 billion this year.

• The low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite sector is hot right now
• Elon Musk’s Starlink in particular has made great strides over the past year
• Now Amazon’s $10bn Project Kuiper is ready to put its first broadband communications satellites into orbit   

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