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The Future Networks Awards offer an opportunity for Future Network Programmes projects (any project part-funded by DSIT) to showcase their innovation, impact and intentions to a panel of independent judges. 

Technology laboratories, startups and research institutions at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, near Didcot, are set to benefit from enhanced wireless 5G connectivity.

Join the University of Bristol and its partners in JOINER, REASON and EPSRC Federated Hubs to learn, debate and discover what our future connected world can enable.

TechEx Global brings together nine leading technology events: AI & Big Data Expo, Cyber Security Expo, Cloud Transformation, Data Centres Expo, Digital Transformation Week, Edge Computing Expo, Intelligent Automation Conference, IoT Tech Expo & Sustainable Tech Expo.

The 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme has seen 10 regions throughout the UK receive a share of £36m of funding as part of our wider programme to drive 5G adoption.

Join us on 6 February in London for the Future Telecoms Conference 2025. This conference will bring together stakeholders from across the public and private sectors to set the agenda for the future of connectivity for the UK.  

A new innovation project is steaming ahead in Dorset to test if WiFi can work on even the most rural and oldest railway networks. 

Dorset Council has been awarded £163,000 government funding from DSIT (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) to bring 21st century technology to Swanage Railway.

Earlier this month we were delighted to welcome journalists to the Smart Internet Lab in Bristol for our media launch of UKTIN’s R&D Discovery Toolkit.

EE has launched 25 new sites on Freshwave’s mobile infrastructure in the City of London, enhancing its 4G and 5G network.

• BT and Toshiba have already deployed a quantum-safe metro network in the London area
• Now they have teamed up with datacentre operator Equinix
• Its facilities in Canary Wharf, London, and Slough will be connected by data links protected using quantum key distribution

Cornish Wildanet attracts £35m investment from UKIB, days after the bank ploughed £150m into Hyperoptic.

Southwest fibre altnet Wildanet has become the latest UK challenger to attract investment from UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB), and has secured a revolving credit facility from Santander to boot.

Building on the UK’s regional and national strengths, UKTIN’s Clusters Group exists to provide an open forum for inter-regional collaboration, sharing of best practices, insights and dissemination of learnings.

As a part of UKTIN’s Optical-themed month, we spoke to Francesco Poletti, an academic professor at the University of Southampton, where he co-founded a start-up called Lumenisity. 
 

Through a collaborative partnership with CJ Founds Associates, the Digital Adoption Strategy has been created to provide a framework to enable the Berkshire Loc

• Leading global telecoms organisations expand SONIC Labs facilities to include an outdoor field testing environment for Open RAN technology.
• Replicates real-world complexities to allow vendors to test and accelerate development of Open RAN product capabilities.
• Specialist R&D lice

In London on the 27th of April, the UK Telecoms Innovation Network officially launched to a packed room.