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• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Intel, Nokia prepping APAC telcos for 5G wave

  The two tech firms are among others that have been working with telcos across the Asia-Pacific region to test 5G technologies and applications

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Smartphone production to plateau in 2018, says report

  After a bumper year, driven chiefly by growth in the Chinese market, smartphone production will begin to slow in 2018, according to analysts at TrendForce

• January 02, 2018 02 Jan'18

  Trackside network to bring 5G to UK rail travellers by 2025

  The government has launched a consultation on improving mobile connectivity for rail passengers

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  Vodafone picks Huawei to underpin NFV and SDN roll-out

  Mobile operator Vodafone will use Huawei’s FusionSphere Openstack platform to support its NFV and SDN ambitions

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Budget 2017 to promise huge UK technology boost

  Wednesday’s Budget will include funding for artificial intelligence, driverless cars, 5G, digital skills and more computer science teachers

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Emergency Services Network delay to cost hundreds of millions

  The Emergency Services Network roll-out has hit further delays and is likely to become very costly indeed, the Public Accounts Committee has heard

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Waltham Forest Council gives 5G network plans a boost

  Waltham Forest Council in London is to allow Arqiva to deploy small cell technology on 16,000 lampposts across the borough

• October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17

  Operators urged to find compelling B2B use cases for 5G

  5G has the capability to bring froward a number of use cases for the business-to-business sector, says Innovate UK

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Government cuts cost of network infrastructure roll-out

  Parts of the Electronic Communications Code have been updated to help communications providers deploy new infrastructure more quickly

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  UK intelligence agencies ‘unlawfully’ sharing sensitive personal data, court hears

  A secret court will decide whether Intelligence agencies are “unlawfully” sharing huge datasets containing sensitive information about the population with industry, government departments and overseas intelligence services.

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Belgian telco Proximus picks Cloudify to support NFV roll-out

  Belgium’s largest telecoms operator Proximus will deploy a cloud-native orchestration platform to support its adoption of NFV services in the business

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Large scale IoT deployments double in 12 months

  Vodafone’s fifth annual look at the IoT market reveals that the percentage of companies with more than 50,000 connected devices has effectively doubled in the past year

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  EE repurposes 2G spectrum to support expanded 4G mobile service

  The operator will re-farm a tranche of spectrum formerly used for 2G services to boost capacity and speed on its 4G network

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  EAN airline broadband service moves closer to reality

  The European Aviation satellite has successfully completed in-orbit testing and will begin to service in-flight broadband customers later in 2017

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  IoT networks a massive sales opportunity for operators, claims GSMA

  Commercial initiatives around low power wide area network infrastructure will present mobile operators with a potential $1.8tn revenue opportunity over the next decade

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  Content delivery innovation improves user experience for e-tailer

  WorldStores Group, the owner of a number of online home and lifestyle retail brands, has transformed its customer experience with enhanced content delivery capabilities from Instart Logic

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  Flash memory and OLED shortages will hit smartphone sales

  Analysts at Gartner have warned that a components shortage will affect sales of high-end smartphones

• August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17

  UK rail passengers don’t trust on-board Wi-Fi

  YouGov survey commissioned by Cobham Wireless finds UK commuters are increasingly frustrated with connectivity standards on the rail network

• August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17

  Bristol hosts successful test of 5G mobile edge computing

  Participants in the three-week trial of mobile edge computing technology took part in a virtual treasure hunt around the city centre

• August 03, 2017 03 Aug'17

  Interview: Vodafone CTO juggles legacy network and cutting-edge technology

  Vodafone UK chief technology officer Jorge Fernandes talks legacy networks, digitisation and how he is positioning the operator to lead in the mobile-enabled future

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  North Korean web users enjoy Amazon, Facebook and YouTube, report claims

  Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future claims that the North Korean elite are as plugged in to the worldwide web as any western citizen

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  UAE hotel upgrades wireless network and internet connectivity

  Beach resort completes major project to revamp its wireless infrastructure with TP-Link technologies

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  Daimler and Bosch show off autonomous valet parking

  A test of an app-based autonomous valet service is to take place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart over the next few months

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Cisco to build O2’s public Wi-Fi network for City of London

  O2 enlists Cisco to help build out the multi-million pound public Wi-Fi network currently taking shape in London’s Square Mile

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Australia’s Whispir dials into global market

  Fast-growing cloud-based communications service provider expects to more than double its workforce within a year, and grow its business in the double-digit range

• July 11, 2017 11 Jul'17

  Legal & General picks HomeServe’s IoT LeakBot to protect homeowners

  Insurance firm partners with HomeServe to deploy its internet of things LeakBot technology and lower customer premiums

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Mobile operators must act soon as 5G business models emerge

  Full deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network is still at least two years away, but new business models are already beginning to crystallise around the technology, and operators would be wise to start preparations soon, a new report claims

• July 07, 2017 07 Jul'17

  Europe takes measured approach to 5G, driven by ROI concerns

  European operators may be more concerned with getting the maximum value for money from their 3G and 4G networks than rushing to roll out 5G

• June 19, 2017 19 Jun'17

  South African game reserve goes digital to save the rhino

  Dimension Data and Cisco have teamed up to protect rhinos living on a private game reserve in South Africa with the latest networking and IoT sensor technology

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  Mobile data traffic in ASEAN, Oceania to grow 11-fold by 2022

  The expansion of 4G and IoT networks in ASEAN and Oceania will lead to a data deluge and drive cellular subscriptions to new levels

• June 08, 2017 08 Jun'17

  Smart farming, IoT only way to feed growing population, says Beecham report

  A report from IoT sector analyst Beecham says the agricultural industry will need to embrace smart farming methodologies to support the growing human population

• June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17

  Telefónica increases use of renewable energy to fight climate change

  Telecoms operator behind UK’s O2 mobile network doubles down on existing commitments to renewable energy sources in the fight against climate change

• May 19, 2017 19 May'17

  Manx Telecom streamlines its business with VMware NFV

  After deploying an NFV platform to replace its IMS service, Isle of Man-based telco has seen substantial improvements to its business agility and processes

• May 18, 2017 18 May'17

  Conservative Party manifesto promises to ‘face up to fast-changing technology’

  Tories aim to create a digital charter, continuing a “digital by default” government and a dynamic digital economy

• May 15, 2017 15 May'17

  Manchester trams halted by communications failure

  A communications systems fault at Transport for Greater Manchester halted Metrolink tram services across the city on Sunday 14 May

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Aruba Atmosphere: Machine learning to transform networking

  At Aruba Atmosphere EMEA in France, delegates learned how the network will incorporate machine learning features in the near future

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Mayor of London seeks chief digital officer

  Capital’s first-ever chief digital officer will oversee the digital transformation of public services across London

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Motorola brings big data digital evidence service to UK police forces

  Motorola is launching a digital evidence management service to UK police forces, backed off into AWS cloud infrastructure

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Consortium hopes to drive autonomous car from London to Oxford

  The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles has awarded an £8.6m grant to back a consortium attempting the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous vehicle test run, to take place within the next two-and-a-half years

• April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17

  PAC concerned Emergency Services Network will be undeliverable

  The new Emergency Services Network could be delayed until September 2020, which could lead to the country being without the service for six months as a post-March 2020 extension of the current contract may not be possible

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  Singapore to shutter 2G services by April 1

  2G is making way for 3G and LTE networks in the city-state, but the legacy technology will remain in other markets with significant machine-to-machine investments

• March 26, 2017 26 Mar'17

  HPE, Tata Communications to build world’s largest IoT network

  The Lora-based network will benefit around 400 million people in India who can expect improvements in water quality and public safety

• March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17

  Birmingham Airport uses sensor tracking to reduce queue times

  Birmingham Airport has installed Wi-FI and Bluetooth sensors to gather valuable information on how long travellers are taking to move through the immigration process at the UK Border

• March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17

  UK sailing team picks BT to help beat Oracle at America’s Cup

  BT is to supply a 4G wireless and fixed network to support the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup team, led by Olympian Ben Ainslie, in its bid to win the 35th America’s Cup

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  MWC 2017: Barcelona trial uses IoT and big data to manage tourists

  Barcelona, the host city for Mobile World Congress, has been demonstrating its use of the internet of things and big data to help manage visitors to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  MWC 2017: 4G still has plenty of mileage, say mobile analysts

  5G is likely to be a hot topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which kicks off at the end of February, but operators should be paying more attention to getting more out of their 4G networks

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  South African children’s hospital uses video to train cardiologists

  The Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town is using remote video learning to teach paediatric cardiology surgery to medical students

• February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  5G deployments will address burgeoning data demand, says Cisco

  In its latest Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) report, Cisco says it expects large-scale 5G infrastructure deployments to be well in hand by the end of the decade as more and more data is consumed

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  European Union reaches final agreement on mobile roaming charges

  Mobile roaming charges in the European Union will end by 15 June 2017 after final agreement was reached on the regulation of wholesale prices

• January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17

  Viasat builds IoT network for connected vehicle insurance

  Satellite connectivity services supplier’s worldwide internet of things network will support customers operating connected vehicles