Sustainability

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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• 3 hours
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The community launch of our Digital Poverty National Delivery Plan 2023, sets out a roadmap for how we can end digital poverty by 2030, following a closed launch at the House of Lords on 22nd May.