Samsung and Vodafone prepare 5G Open RAN for Germany and Spain
Press Release Samsung Electronics and Vodafone have announced their plans to accelerate 5G Open RAN expansion across Europe, beginning new open network initiatives in Germany and Spain, while enhancing Vodafone’s 5G network in the U.K. This builds upon the two companies’ initial network collaboration, including Vodafone UK’s successful launch of the first 5G Open RAN site in Bath, U.K. in January 2022, using Samsung’s virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution. Vodafone and Samsung are proving stable...
Deutsche Telekom Ponders Future of its 12.5 Percent BT Stake
The boss of German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom (DT), Tim Höttges, has said that taking out a £5.6bn stake in UK broadband and telecoms giant BT Group in 2015 has turned out to be the “biggest mistake” he ever made, after its value fell by almost £4bn. But DT hasn’t given up on the possibility […]
Certainly not a rubbish weekend in Arizona
Arizona is a state of big numbers. It is perhaps best know for the Grand Canyon, 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and reaching a depth of over a mile… But now Arizona and Cox Business have some more big figures to celebrate with a weekend that encompassed both Super Bowl 57 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, and the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf. With the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl and Dallas resident Scottie Scheffler topping the scoresheet for the PGA golf it might...
BT Estimates it Boosted UK Economy by £24bn GVA in 2021-22
Broadband ISP and telecoms giant BT and consultancy firm Hatch have today published their annual economic impact report for 2021/22, which among other things found that the operator provided an estimated boost of £24bn (Gross Value Added) to the UK economy last year and supported a total of 284,00 jobs. The Economic Impact Report 2023 […]
Truespeed Add Bleadon to Somerset UK Gigabit Broadband Build
Bath-based alternative network ISP Truespeed appears to have added the rural Somerset (England) village and civil parish of Bleadon, which is home to around 1,100 people, to their rollout plan for a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. The community of Bleadon wasn’t mentioned last year, when Truespeed updated their rollout plan for the […]
Winter 2023 Update on Project Gigabit UK Broadband Rollout
The Building Digital UK team has today published their latest quarterly Winter 2023 update on the Government’s £5bn rural Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which has so far awarded six contracts – worth £164.8m – and launched 14 further procurements with a combined estimated value of £906.7m. The project itself aims to extend networks capable […]
5G Enables Intelligent and Digital Transformation of Mine Production
VIEWPOINT The much-awaited MWC 2023 has kicked off, and Huawei’s 5G ToB booth attracted an influx of visitors. The 5G Remote Control Solution, in particular, garnered attendees’ interest. Although terms such as “mining trucks, shovels, drilling rigs, slopes” displayed at the booth may be unfamiliar to some carriers, the exhibition of remote unmanned automation of large devices demonstrated the vast possibilities and potential changes that 5G technology could bring to the mining industry. The...
Out with the old, in with the new: Nokia rebrands and sets its sights on enterprise tech
News The Finnish vendor says its mobile device days are well and truly behind it, with its new rebrand emphasising enterprise technology as the key vector for company growth Nokia has started this week with a bang, launching a rebrand that seeks to position the company as more than just a traditional telecoms vendor and instead as a broader enterprise technology provider. Alongside unveiling a sharp new logo, the company said that it would focus on six key pillars to ensure its future success:...
Using your IQ to better understand 5G environments
Startup Stories Tell us about your start up Innovate5G Inc. is a software product and services company developing AI/ML Platforms and APIs for 4G/5G/6G Cellular Network Performance Observation for Application Developers and Network Developers. Innovate5G inc. customers are mainly Application companies that develop IoT, UAV, Metaverse(AR/VR) Applications and Solutions Integrators that integrate Applications to Networks. Current customers are headquartered in US in Texas and in Illinois....
Full Fibre Operator Freedom Fibre Awards Money from Community Fund
Network builder Freedom Fibre, which aims to cover over 2 million UK premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network and is being supported by ISP TalkTalk, has awarded thousands of pounds worth of grants to 13 local community schemes in some of the areas where their new infrastructure is being built. In case anybody has forgotten, […]