Rural Connectivity

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Ayrshire 5GIR: Julia McMurdie, North Ayrshire Council; Derek Johnstone, South Ayrshire Council;  Ashleigh Jordan, Vodafone

Ayrshire 5GIR Update Agenda

 • Regional Economic Strategy 

• Digital Economy Framework

Shropshire Council - River Severn Partnership

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Train Communications Systems Conference – meet everyone you need to meet in one place in 2024!

Don’t miss this annual, global, get-together focused directly on the problems of putting WiFi onto trains and building the track-side networks to support this.

Join the UK SPF Cluster 1 for an exclusive event dedicated to examining the evolving landscape of indoor connectivity and its future demand. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the need for robust and reliable indoor networks is more crucial than ever before for both consumers and enterprises.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise alongside Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) are thrilled to be hosting A3 Scotland 2024: Transition to Digital – Fit for the Future

Cambridge Tech Week brings together world-leading experts, innovators and investors to fuel growth across the tech ecosystem, establishing Cambridge as a key place where global tech comes to meet.

Connected Britain is the UK’s most important digital economy event, bringing together stakeholders from across the connectivity ecosystem. 

A showcase of 5G activity in Worcestshire.

Dorset's vision is to be the UK’s leading rural location for digital innovation, showing how more remote locations can support innovation, tackle society’s grand challenges and turbocharge the UK economy.

Download to learn more about the advanced connectivity opportunities in Dorset.

Introduction

In this 1-day short course we present the key know-how and operational information on Private 5G Networks, considering key topics from radio frequency spectrum to radio units (RU), from user equipment to use cases, and from 5G core to the cloud and the edge.

The 5G Techritory platform is an initiative to bring together the key players in 5G development with the goal of developing a robust and aligned 5G Ecosystem in Europe and beyond.

This will be an event exclusively for our members and supporters to attend in the Terrace Pavilion at the House of Commons.

The event is kindly hosted by the Rt. Hon. Mark Tami MP.

Panel members confirmed are;

• Rob Kenny-Co- founder of Communication chambers

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.

Hello, my name is Ian Smith and I am the Chief Technology Officer at Quickline Communications. I am responsible for our technological-related decisions across our customer-facing network and internal IT systems.

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.

Dorset Local Enterprise is committed to supporting the local rural and natural economy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has invested £194,000 towards improving rural further education.

Local Growth Fund investment has been provided to enable two new infrastructure upgrades at Kingston Maurward College, a l

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

Enhanced connectivity for rural areas

5G RuralDorset today announced a new project expansion to monitor land stability and cliff movement at key points along the Jurassic Coast. The extension to this DCMS-backed project takes its funding to £8 million and sees the British Geological Survey (BGS) join the project to work on this research area.