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The British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, appears set to confirm earlier reports that she will make it easier for UK network operators and ISPs to tackle the ongoing shortage of skilled fibre broadband engineers by allowing the telecoms sector (as well as other industries) to hire more staff from abroad. At present, there are over […]

Customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those looking to adopt their 5G unlimited Home Broadband packages (£20 per month – first 6 months at £10), may like to know that they’re no longer shipping it with a ZTE based router and have instead replaced it with the Zyxel NR5103E. But getting 5G to work […]

The UK Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has today published a new Growth Plan 2022, which proposes to “liberate the private sector” by encouraging investment (i.e. removing barriers to the flow of private capital) and boosting infrastructure by “liberalising the planning system and streamlining consultation and approval requirements“. The CEO of CityFibre, Greg Mesch, was quick to […]

NEWS At this year’s Connected Britain conference, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, announced a new digital inclusion pilot programme, pairing five ISPs with five social housing providers to help thousands of residents With the cost-of-living crisis only growing more severe in the UK, the question of digital exclusion was a major theme of discussion at this year’s Connected Britain conference in London. While the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on the now essential nature of...

STARTUP STORIES Historically video surveillance has been built on a complicated and expensive network of cables and low autonomy. TelWAI believes the future of surveillance is built on wireless mobile networks that can be rapidly deployed at low cost. Tell us about your start up TelWAI enables the autonomous detection of security and safety threats by utilising its wireless, Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven surveillance camera. TelWAI’s surveillance camera consists of edge-based video...

PRESS RELEASE Ryse Energy, the global leader in Telecoms renewable energy systems with over 4,000 installations across all seven continents, has appointed small wind energy executive, Richard Caldow, as CEO for Europe & Americas. Richard has more than 30 years’ experience in the distributed renewable energy space, joins Ryse Energy from competitor and small wind turbine manufacturer, SD Wind, where he was responsible for building a global installed base of small wind turbines in various...

New alternative network operator Spring Fibre has announced that they’ve secured an investment of “up to” £155 million from R&M’s (River and Mercantile) Infrastructure business, which will support their plan to build a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 1 million premises in England. The new operator – initially backed by […]

Sky (Sky TV, Sky Broadband etc.) has reportedly informed its trade suppliers that they will cease installing “new” satellite TV dishes on customer homes by the end of 2023, which is widely understood to reflect their increasing adoption of broadband internet based IPTV (video streaming etc.) delivery methods. At present most of Sky’s TV services […]

Contributed Article Jasmeet Singh Sethi, Head of ConsumerLab at Ericsson, shares insights on UK consumer perceptions of 5G and the reasons for its sluggish uptake across the country Consumer adoption numbers for 5G services in the UK make for sobering reading. According to our ConsumerLab research, UK customer numbers lag behind leading markets such as the US and Asia, almost half of non-5G smartphone users have no plans to upgrade, while the cost-of-living crisis has already led to 15%...

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Connected Britain Awards 2023, celebrating excellence throughout the UK’s connectivity industry and beyond. The winner of each award can be found below, alongside the judges’ commentary.   B2B Service Provider of the Year Winner: Pangea Connected Highly commended: Giganet B2B Service “The judges called this an important set of IoT services for the industry, with clear evidence of customers’ problems being taken into account during design.  With...