Sustainability

Early warning systems (EWS) save lives when disaster strikes. They provide critical advance notice of impending hazards and crises, enabling people to take swift and appropriate action to protect themselves, their families and their communities.

The SNS R&I WP for 2024 has been (pre)released to give information on the contents of the forthcoming call.

Innovate UK would like to invite you to participate in a Sandpit event with the theme of Net Zero in the Telecommunications industry.

The Digital Connectivity Forum is delighted to announce the launch event of their Climate Guidance for SME's in the telco industry.

Careful, responsible, and efficient management of resources has become increasingly important, not just to the agriculture industry, but to the planet.

Network operators have multiple reasons to become more sustainable – it reduces operational expenses, enables them to set targets as part of their corporate responsibility efforts and helps to attract investors with ‘green’ portfolio metrics. But how can they achieve these goals?

This is a special digital event focusing on the role of telecoms in combatting climate change.

Against the backdrop of massive industry change, including ambitions to meet net zero, worldwide food production pressures and increasing UK food security concerns due to Ukraine’s ongoing invasion, our farming communities are in a challenging period.

MEC is an idea for network architectures that brings what are normally described as cloud computing services to the “edge” of a mobile network – generally at the base station, or at a point of aggregation of several base stations.

Unlike the move from 3G to 4G, the transition to 5G has been fairly seamless. It is expected that 5G coverage will have reached 60 per cent of the world’s population by 2026, making it the fastest ever mobile network deployment.

Farming and rural healthcare are amongst the sectors set to benefit

The Crichton, a business and academic campus in Dumfries, will host Scotland’s first rural 5G connectivity hub.

Comment piece by Paul Coffey, CEO, The Scotland 5G Centre

5G will benefit our economy and society. It will be better at doing the things that 4G does already, but significantly it will offer faster and more reliable mobile internet. It will also do things that 4G cannot.

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