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Shipment to Cape Canaveral planned for the first week of August with a 7-day launch window in September

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The Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) market is entering a new mass adoption phase. During 2H 2024, the iOS release 18, and Android 15 are set to introduce satellite messaging as a core feature, enabling millions of devices worldwide to tap into satellite connectivity.

A new study by Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications markets, has found that annual operator investment into O-RAN (Open Radio Access Networks) will reach $11 billion in 2029; rising from $2 billion in 2024.

Hello, I'm Saba Al-Rubaye, a Professor of Telecommunications and Autonomous Systems at Cranfield University's School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing. I also lead research and development at the Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre, focusing on advancing 6G technology, digital twin and air mobility solutions.

A private 5G network-enabled Innovation Lab is set to transform the Port of Blyth into the UK North East’s premier technology hub, providing unprecedented access to 5G technology for industries in the North East region.

The UK has taken third place in new global rankings of broadband reliability by Opensignal, the independent and reliable analytics company specialising in “quantifying the mobile-network experience”. 

Telefónica, leading telecommunications company, in collaboration with Warpcom, an iberian technology integrator, have teamed up with Fortinet and Quantum Xchange to develop and demonstrate the effectiveness of an innovat

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

With AI-enhanced devices increasingly finding their way into consumers' pockets, Samsung is keen to gain an edge over its rivals.

To that end, the Korean electronics giant has just shelled out an undisclosed sum for Oxford Semantic Technologies, a UK-based startup that specialises in knowledge graph technology.

Telxius has teamed with Juniper Networks to upgrade its global network to 400G to boost user experiences across its 100,000+ km footprint spanning Europe and the Americas.

Nokia continued to face hurdles in the second quarter, with an 18% year-on-year drop in revenues to €4.46bn and an 8% decrease in operating profit to €432m, but the vendor remains bullish that the second half of the year will deliver positives in terms of improved network infrastructure sales.

The O-RANOS project aimed to solve key challenges in creating seamless OpenRAN networks that work across both private and public domains. By addressing these challenges, the project sought to open up new business opportunities for both enterprise and public sector customers and to develop innovative use cases.

Among the Africa AI use case applications identified, the vast majority are related to agriculture, climate action and energy, according to the GSMA

New artificial intelligence (AI) applications could boost Africa’s economic growth by $2.9 trillion by 2030, according to a new GSMA report.

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.

A series of Future Capability Papers, authored by the UKTIN Expert Working Groups, are being published over the coming months. Find out more here.

The previous UK Government’s £250 million 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy aimed to incentivise the industry to create new products and services to unlock the full potential of Open RAN. 

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 3GPP workshop in Rotterdam.

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Graphcore today announced that the company has been acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. Under the deal, Graphcore becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will continue to operate under the Graphcore name. 

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.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has joined the AI-RAN Alliance to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and innovations in radio access networks (RAN).

Hello, I am George Gibson, a co-founder at Streetwave. Our two-year-old start-up is a product of the Welsh Government’s charity incubator, The Alacrity Foundation. The organisation researches the biggest challenges facing UK society, and mobile connectivity has been identified as a fundamental part of that.

According to a newly published forecast report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, the Mobile Core Network (MCN) market 5-year cumulative revenue forecast is expected to decline 10 percent (2024-2028).

Using Samsung S24 smartphones as cameras, along with core and RAN gear from Cisco, Orange says it will capture footage that traditional systems would not.