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Joint statement by ECTA, ETNO, GIGAEurope and GSMA.

Brussels, February 1st, 2024 – The EU telecommunications industry is united in voicing strong concerns around the ongoing “Gigabit Infrastructure Act” Regulation negotiations and warns of unintended consequences if proposals are implemented in their current form.

• The UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit initiative is gathering pace
• It is providing network capital expenditure funding for fibre rollouts to rural and hard-to-reach areas and will enable 85% national coverage with gigabit broadband by 2025
• Contracts worth some £1.1bn have been allocated so f

This week, Vodafone and Autobahn GmbH announced they are working together to bring 5G to all German motorways by 2028 at the latest.

According to Canalys research, the global smartphone market experienced an 8% year-on-year growth in Q4 2023, reaching 319.2 million units, further indicating signs of stabilisation and recovery. 

New research from CCS Insight sheds light on the fixed wireless access market, an emerging but crucial technology for mobile network operators. The technology helps to expand network coverage, bridging connectivity gaps in rural or semi-rural areas where laying fibre infrastructure is challenging.

In London, on 1st February 2024, UKTIN’s AI Expert Working Group unveiled the findings of its research, including the current and emerging trends of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Telecoms, a detailed analysis of selected key topics, and a review of forward-looking opportunities and challenges on potential technological, business, an

A series of Future Capability Papers, authored by the UKTIN Expert Working Groups, are soon to be published. UKTIN spoke to Dritan Kaleshi, UKTIN Lead For Future Telecoms Capability, to learn more.

Hello, I’m Priya Kurien and I lead the research in the telecom industry in IBM’s thought leadership division, the Institute for Business Value (IBV). I create insights on trends and business imperatives, while also considering the challenges that telecom executives face.

Access to finance is a major barrier to UK SME growth, particularly in high technology sectors like telecoms and for upstream technology capabilities such as photonics and cyber security.

NTN has come a long way: there are currently around 1,000 active organisations in the UK and visitors to Barcelona next month can expect to see a plethora of companies at MWC.

The UK’s telecoms market is thriving but understanding how the ecosystem is innovating can be difficult, especially considering the rapid advancements in academia.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published a white paper that articulates some of the high-level cyber security insights identified, by NCC Group for DSIT, in a review of a cross section of the 5GTT projects in the programme.

Hi, I’m Rob Maunder, the CTO of AccelerComm, a spinout company that I founded in 2016.

NTT DOCOMO, INC. (hereinafter referred to as DOCOMO), NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION (NTT), and NIPPON CAR SOLUTIONS CO., LTD. (NCS) has started a demonstration experiment as of January 12, 2024, as part of their enhanced disaster response measures involving responding to power outages.

FarrPoint's connectivity survey is back this year, and after talking to dozens of local and combined authority digital teams across England, Wales and Scotland, we are about to launch our second report.

By connecting industry and academia, the Satellite Applications Catapult gets new research off the ground and into the market more quickly. UKTIN speaks to  Paul Febvre, CTO to learn more.