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England’s Connected Heartland (ECH) is the name of our 5G Innovation Region. Co-ordinated by Oxfordshire County Council, ECH is a partnership of nine councils in the heartland region. It encompasses Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Central Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire.

Mobile phones and data are pervasive, cell towers and radio masts are everywhere, yet 85% of the Earth's surface has no service.  Satellites than are cheaper and more accessible than ever - surely we can fill this data void?  

CELTIC-NEXT is pleased to announce this in-person Proposers Brokerage Day, taking place on Wednesday 18 September 2024, from 9 am to 5 pm (UK Time/GMT+1) at Digital Catapult in London King’s Cross, for the Autumn Call 2024.

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:

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

We’re socially engineered to believe that mobile infrastructure is necessarily inelegant. As a result, we see brand new Housing Developments – ideal for hybrid working – built without adequate Mobile Coverage.

Join Digital Catapult, the UK authority on advanced digital technology, for our Connected Ecosystems inaugural event as we hear from 3 speakers who are making the Internet of Things (IoT) a reality in the UK.

The 2023 agenda had been carefully curated to target the needs of telcos top level management.

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

Innovate UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research

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

The IfM Engage consortium has been commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to undertake a study into infrastructure to grow the UK semiconductor industry and a new strategic coordination function for the sector. Five capabilities are being considered as part of the proposed initiative:

The Great Telco Debate returns for its tenth year on Thursday 7 December 2023, assembling leaders from across the industry at telecom’s most exclusive thinktank for a day of thought-provoking discussions, challenging debates and unrivalled networking.