Technology

Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a deal to provide secure telecommunications for the nation’s government — the largest such project in Europe, people with knowledge of the matter said Sunday.

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

• China ended last year with almost 4.2 million 5G base stations, according to the country’s tech minstry
• That number is set to increase by more than 7% this year
• China’s three main operators already boast almost 1.2 billion 5G connections between them

Smart sensors have saved £32,000 by reducing how much city centre flowerbeds needed watering through the summer months.

The Smart City programme in Wrexham has also seen smart benches installed with free USB and wireless phone charging points powered by solar power.

A US appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest attempt to enforce network neutrality rules, ruling that broadband internet service providers (ISPs) are classified as offering “information services” rather than “telecommunications services”.

Up to 1,000 citizens across the West Midlands will benefit from improved social care provision, thanks to a groundbreaking collaboration between Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton Local Authorities’ Adult Social Care Teams. 

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.

Hi, I'm Stephen Patrick, the founder and CEO of CableFree, a 28-year-old technology company that has deployed wireless connectivity in over 90 countries.

The UK’s competition watchdog has launched a probe into IBM’s prospective acquisition of software firm HashiCorp.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a merger inquiry in late December to determine whether the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition”.

ABI Research’s 5th annual Trend Report identifies the 3 Space Technologies trends that will come to fruition —and the 3 that won’t—in 2025

ABI Research’s 5th annual Trend Report the 7 key AI & Machine Learning technology trends that will deliver—and the 4 that won’t—in 2025

UKTIN recently hosted a free webinar uncovering critical industry trends and insights for 2025, including new technological solutions such as AI, quantum computing and cyber security. The session highlighted opportunities and tips for overcoming barriers in the multifaceted telecom sector.

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.

To ensure that SMEs have a front-row seat to telecoms standards making, our Standards Champion, Andy Reid, attends key standards meetings to observe, participate in conversations and report back on key themes and discussion points.

Here, Reid shares his reflections on the recent LFN meeting in San Jose.

Hello, I’m Paul Rhodes, an independent consultant at Evolved Network Solutions. I have over 30 years of global experience in the wireless industry, working with telecom giants Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, CityFibre, and World Wide Technology.

Japan's NTT claims to have made a breakthrough that could herald a new era in high-capacity backbone networking.

One of SpaceMobile's bigger financial backers Vodafone has agreed a 10-year deal to use its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

SpaceX notched a big milestone with a launch of its Starlink internet satellites on Wednesday night (Dec. 4).

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

Nordic operator Telia and the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority have launched a pilot which involves using hydrogen to help keep mobile sites operating in power outages.

US connectivity cloud provider Cloudflare has published its annual review of Internet trends and it shows a small decline in the proportion of total internet traffic accounted for by mobile devices.

What is Linux Foundation Networking (LNF)?

Telecoms functionality is increasingly now implemented purely in software, yet the development life cycles and commercial models for software functionality are quite different to hardware functionality on which traditional standards processes have been based.

• Sateliot is a Spanish startup building a network of over 100 small satellites with global reach that will connect devices in remote, previously unserved areas.
• This is the EIB’s first venture debt operation with a Spanish space company and in the segment of satellite communications.

The Commission has signed 21 grant agreements for €142 million with backbone cable projects, bringing total funding to €420 million under the first CEF Digital Work Programme, reinforcing the EU's commitment to a connected and secure digital future.