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Cambridge Tech Week 2025 is set to return from 15 – 19 September, with a focus on global collaboration and a bold ambition: to showcase Cambridge as the deep tech capital of Europe and a driving force behind some of the world’s most transformative technologies. 

Apply now to join our UK Tech Showcase @ London Tech Week 2025!

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is looking for the UK’s best and brightest tech companies to be a part of our UK Technology Showcase at London Tech Week 2025 (9th-13th June).

At Connected Places Catapult we connect people, places and businesses for a future of sustainable growth and prosperity.

ONE Western O-RAN Deployment (WORD) Overview 

Peter Gradwell, Telet Research; Rafal Sanecki, IS-Wireless 

Witek Wojas Connected Places

UKTIN Connected Places update

Read the latest UKTIN news, Industry news, Success stories and Governement updates in this winter edition.

Shaping tomorrow: where business fuels innovation

Connected Britain is the UK’s leading event for next-generation broadband and connectivity. Bringing together over 8,000 leaders from across telecoms, government, enterprise, and tech, the conference provides a unique platform for shaping the future of the UK’s digital infrastructure. 

UK INNOVATION IS AT AN EXCITING JUNCTURE
Ian Smith, Head of UKTIN

Connectivity has, and always will, underpin societal and economic growth. Fortunately, the UK telecoms sector is 
rife with innovation and potential.

Innovation is the lifeblood of any sector: it’s what keeps us moving forward.
But to deliver on the demands of citizens and industry today, and ensure a rich and robust pipeline 
of future R&D and innovation, organisations in the telecoms sector need to be able to navigate 

Birmingham Tech Week is the UK’s largest regional tech festival and conference with over 7,500 people attending. Events will be taking place across the entire West Midlands covering a variety of important and innovative topics.

The telecom industry’s end-of-year wrap-up returns to London on Thursday 5 December, for a day of boisterous discussion and debate on the big issues and topics that are shaping the future of telecoms. 

Debates proposed so far include:

Presentation outlining Glasgow City Region strategic context and properties

Presentation outlining digital innovation undertaken by Coventry City Council

Network X brings together global leaders across Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks and Telco software to offer the world’s most comprehensive B2B telecommunications industry event.

Our 34,000km private telecoms network spans the UK providing a range of high capacity connectivity and collaboration solutions.

National network maps

Technology advances and growing demand for high-speed internet access are leading independent broadband firms to feel overwhelmingly positive about the future, according to a survey measuring confidence in the sector.

EXA Infrastructure, the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform throughout Europe, connecting North America and Asia via the Middle East, today announced the deployment of a new fibre route connecting London to Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels.

• Financing includes £500m in new equity secured from existing shareholders
• Committed debt facilities expanded by £960m, alongside a new £800m accordion facility to catalyse CityFibre’s growth through M&A
• Successful financing accelerates CityFibre’s next phase of growth and boosts

• The European Commission is proposing to relax the regulation on incumbent national fixed network operators
• Deregulation of wholesale fixed access services would be a ‘backwards step’, state competitive operators 
• Vodafone, Iliad, Colt, Bouygues Telecom and 1&1 are among thos

INCA has reacted to Ofcom's latest proposals on regulating the UK access market, the main thrust of its response being that Openreach must be kept in check.

Hello, my name is Megan Lawless, and I work for the Manchester Digital Strategy at Manchester City Council. I am also involved in the Greater Manchester 5G Smart Decarbonisation Network project. 

• Unprecedented £11bn investment is one of the largest privately funded infrastructure programmes in the UK, connecting all four nations and every community  
• VodafoneThree is the only mobile network operator with a fully funded, regulated and guaranteed