New data from crowdsourced mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has compared how the 4G and 5G based UK mobile broadband download and upload speeds compared across Apple’s various iPhone generations (up to the iPhone 13). Unsurprisingly, the latest 5G equipped iPhone 12 and 13 delivered significantly faster performance. Admittedly, there aren’t any particularly earth-shattering revelations to […]
Skills shortages are holding back industrial IoT adoption
A study of 450 leaders across agriculture, utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics has identified that business lack skills to to develop…
Remembering Crissi Williams
The loss of Crissi is unfathomable and deeply felt by all of us here at the ITP. Crissi was our straight-talking and down to earth CEO, and not only have we lost an inspirational leader, but a mentor and friend.
For many, Crissi was a role model; living and breathing the values she so passionately promoted. She openly discussed the fact she left school without any qualifications but demonstrated that with hard work and determination anything was possible.
Crissi originally joined the ITP in 2008 as Office Manager having worked in various recruitment roles before that…
Openreach Seek Changes to Upgrade Fibre for UK Flats and Poles
Openreach’s (BT) Director of Corporate Affairs, Catherine Colloms, has told a UK committee for the new Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill (PSTI) that the proposed law doesn’t do enough to help them bring gigabit broadband ISP network upgrades to large residential buildings (MDUs) and telegraph poles. The government has already done a fair bit […]
Ericsson and Vodafone announce UK’s first on-demand 5G network slice
In a joint pilot, Vodafone and Ericsson demonstrated an on-demand 5G network slice which was delivered using Ericsson’s containerized core architecture and 5G RAN slicing. The trial enabled the two partners to demonstrate both the low latency and high bandwidth required for the virtual reality use case…
Wales to Close Top Up Scheme for Gigabit Broadband Vouchers
The Welsh Government (WG) has confirmed that its top-up funding for the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offers grants to help rural homes install gigabit-capable internet connections, will end on 31st March 2022 because “budget pressures” mean they can no longer afford to continue to “underwrite the UK Government“. The UK GBVS scheme normally […]
ISP Gigaclear Starts FTTP Broadband Rollout in Blandford Forum
Infracapital-backed UK ISP Gigaclear has begun street works in the rural Dorset (England) market town of Blandford Forum, which is also expected to cover parts of Blandford St. Mary. Over 6,000 local homes and business premises are due to gain access to their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. The work forms part of the provider’s […]
MP Jamie Stone welcomes multimillion pound digital infrastructure investment in the far north
The Liberal Democrat MP told the John O’Groat Journal “It is an issue which I have raised again and again ever since then. Now, fingers crossed, I believe we may see the light at the end of the tunnel…
CityFibre’s 100th Fibre Exchange deployed in Glasgow
CityFibre’s Fibre Exchanges (FEX) are a network of purpose built, power-efficient, micro-edge data centres, each about the size of a shipping container, used to deliver, manage and monitor live services and data across their network…
Vodafone UK appoints two new board members amid group-wide restructure
A restructuring at Vodafone Group will see the creation of a European Digital & IT team as well as an integrated European network. From a UK perspective, there will be three major changes.
Firstly, Scott Petty, who currently holds the position of UK CTO will become Group Director of Digital &…