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• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Real-time analytics tops priorities for 82% of IoT enterprise

  Research finds IoT is evolving from simple data collection to process automation, with enterprises starting to layer additional services like AI and machine learning to process data from IoT deployment

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Vodafone chooses Ericsson as exclusive RAN supplier across key territories

  Swedish comms tech firm to become leading European operator’s sole radio access network provider, deploying advanced 5G hardware and software to modernise networks and enable 5G Standalone for differentiated connectivity needs

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI becomes major accelerator for IoT

  Survey reveals ‘soaring’ enthusiasm for IoT, with multiple emerging technologies acting as catalysts, and efficiency and productivity gains demonstrating return on investment

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Regulatory pressures, development bottlenecks stall UK SDV progress

  Key findings from survey of UK automotive software developers reveal regulatory compliance and long development cycles as the biggest challenges in software development, with cyber vulnerability the biggest risk to successful SDV roll-out

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Court dismisses Apple’s appeal against Home Office backdoor

  Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules that Apple’s appeal against a Home Office order to access encrypted data of Apple users world wide will no longer proceed.

• October 10, 2025 10 Oct'25

  Fastweb + Vodafone claims 5G network milestone for Italy

  Italian operator unveils ‘groundbreaking’ achievement on commercial 5G network in Rome, reaching a peak speed of 2.5 Gbps, accelerating the nation’s journey towards 5G Advanced and an era of hyper-connected services

• October 10, 2025 10 Oct'25

  AT&T, Ericsson launch cloud-based IoT marketplace

  Marketplace hosted on Microsoft Azure developed by leading comms provider and comms tech company designed to simplify selling, contracting, provisioning and billing for IoT services

• October 10, 2025 10 Oct'25

  WBA enhances emergency services Wi-Fi comms in challenging environments

  Report outlines framework for how Wi-Fi and wireless standard can be used to deliver reliable emergency calling and priority communications between the public, first responders, public safety organisations and emergency services

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Chat Control encryption plans delayed after EU states fail to agree

  Plans to require technology companies across Europe to monitor the contents of encrypted messages and emails have been delayed after European Union member states were unable to reach agreement following German objections

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  AI and autonomous vehicles drive UAE’s first commercial electric truck fleet

  Evocargo and RAK Ceramics deploy AI-powered autonomous vehicles, marking a new era for logistics and sustainable mobility

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Airbus climbs in industrial digitisation with private 5G deployment

  Global aircraft manufacturer advances factory digitisation with private 5G connectivity at production sites supporting critical initiatives such as 3D simulation, augmented reality, improved traceability and predictive maintenance

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  OPCSA terminal gains sharper edge with private 5G connectivity

  Neutral host provider to design, deploy and operate a private 5G network at the Canary Islands’ largest container terminal, reducing costs associated with inefficiencies in the maintenance and monitoring of refrigerated containers

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police ordered to give reasons in closed court for seizing phone of UK Hamas lawyer

  London court orders police to disclose reasons for seizing and copying the contents of a phone belonging to a UK lawyer who represented Hamas, but refuses an injunction to prevent police from reviewing the phone until after judicial review

• October 03, 2025 03 Oct'25

  VMO2 looks to boost UK mobile connectivity with Giga Site

  UK comms provider switches on first Giga Site in London, and claims to be marking a major step forward in delivering faster and more reliable mobile connectivity across the UK

• October 03, 2025 03 Oct'25

  BT reveals plan for 99% 5G standalone coverage by 2030

  UK’s leading comms provider rebrands 5G standalone into 5G+ while revealing ambition to deliver almost universal population coverage over mobile standard by 2030, taking huge leap compared with rival UK MNOs

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  PSNI appoints legal counsel to report on police conduct after McCullough surveillance review

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland has commissioned a senior lawyer to report back on whether there was any misconduct by police officers following the McCullough Review into the surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  UK Space Agency goes global with 23 projects

  Projects designed to strengthen international space partnerships, develop national capabilities and boost economic growth include joint effort to support the development of high-performance non-terrestrial networks

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Home Office issues new ‘backdoor’ order over Apple encryption

  A second Home Office technical capability notice requires Apple to provide access to encrypted data and messages of British users stored on its iCloud service

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  EU Chat Control plans pose ‘existential catastrophic risk’ to encryption, says Signal

  As EU member states prepare to vote on plans to mandate tech companies to introduce technology to scan messages before they are encrypted, Signal warns that Chat Control will create new security risks

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Over half of UK adults use mobile wallets

  Cash accounted for less than 10% of payments in the UK in 2024, according to UK Finance figures

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Apple’s first iOS 26 security update fixes memory corruption flaw

  Apple issues an update for its brand new iOS 26 mobile operating system, fixing a potentially dangerous vulnerability affecting iPhones, iPads and other Mac devices

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  NHS App set to front-end online health service access

  Additional functionality is being built into the NHS App to provide online appointments and access to healthcare professionals across England

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  5G-enabled FWA CPE shipments form majority in 4 out of 7 global regions

  Annual fixed wireless access CPE market survey reveals that as 5G-based FWA is increasingly the norm, suppliers expect shipments to accelerate, with over 50% of sales in key regions being 5G-enabled

• September 28, 2025 28 Sep'25

  Boldyn Networks enhances 5G fan experience at AO Arena

  Leading UK neutral host network provider engaged to deliver advanced 5G connectivity at sports arena in Manchester, one of the UK’s busiest entertainment venues and one of the largest indoor sporting homes in Europe

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Nokia and Boldyn Networks deploy private 5G to power mining

  Global comms tech firm teams with wireless neutral network provider for mining technology deployment to enable safer, smarter and more sustainable operations, where most workforces can operate from above ground

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  McCullough Review finds PSNI failures but no ‘systemic’ surveillance of journalists

  A review by Angus McCullough KC reveals that Northern Ireland police failed to comply with the law but that there was no ‘widespread and systemic’ surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  UK Connect gains further support for Fusion construction connectivity

  UK wireless communication services provider announces wider availability of connectivity offering that automatically selects the optimal network for a client’s site

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  Morse Micro secures $59m funding to lead the next era of IoT

  Fresh capital to accelerate Morse Micro’s expansion into international markets, scale production of its Wi-Fi HaLow chips and support the ecosystem shift toward IoT 2.0, characterised by high-throughput, long-range, scalable connectivity

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  Verizon launches 6G innovation forum

  Leading US communications company brings together comms technology producers to take early step in shaping the next generation of AI-enabled mobile

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing

  US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  Ericsson, Nokia join VodafoneThree £11bn network build out

  VodafoneThree announces signing of partnerships with global comms tech providers to supply technology across 17,000+ sites in one of Europe’s largest privately funded infrastructure projects

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  Tech consortium unveils private 5G, AI-powered edge innovation hub

  ‘Pioneering’ hub for startups and nonprofits to test advanced private 5G and AI-powered edge use cases without the usual cost or deployment challenges

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  AI investments threatened by ‘fundamentally unreliable’ IoT connectivity

  Study shows a third of businesses warn that poor internet of things connectivity is a barrier to AI adoption, with just 2% of deployments reliable enough for success

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

  A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop

  A UK solicitor hired by Hamas to challenge its proscription in the UK as a terrorist organisation argues police acted unlawfully by seizing a phone containing confidential legally privileged material about his clients

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Federated Wireless, Cisco validate commercial standard power for Wi-Fi 6E, 7

  Networking and IT giant throws weight behind creating path to emerging wireless standard

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  GSA: NTN operator–satellite partnerships now in 80 territories

  Study shows Starlink leading the satellite landscape with 44 partnerships, followed by AST SpaceMobile and Lynk, while in spectrum Ka-band remains most widely used frequency range, supporting both feeder and service links

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  VMO2 5G standalone network reaches 500 UK locations

  Leading UK operator expands next-generation mobile network reaching more than 70% of the UK’s population, claiming to have the largest 5G standalone network in the UK

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Nokia deploys world’s first 1900 MHz 5G radio network for Deutsche Bahn

  Germany’s national railway company expands relationship with comms tech provider to deploy ‘world’s first’ commercial 1900 MHz 5G radio network solution with a 5G Standalone core, running on live outdoor test tracks  

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Space42, Viasat form joint venture to launch D2D 5G mobile satellite services

  UAE-based AI-powered space tech company forms partnership with global communications provider to enable global delivery of D2D services facilitating evolution to a 5G network environment

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Swissto12, Astrum Mobile hit satellite preliminary design milestone

  Preliminary design review revealed for Astrum Mobile’s Neastar-1, said to be the first geostationary satellite-to-device mission in the region designed to change how mobile networks reach people across Asia Pacific

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Smart headset gives visually impaired a new way to ‘see’

  Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a wearable device that combines a camera with conversational AI powered by Meta’s Llama models to give sight to the visually impaired

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Ericsson claims first enterprise 5G agentic AI agent

  Comms tech provider enhances NetCloud platform by integrating agentic AI technology framework to serve as enabler for future autonomously operating self-optimising 5G enterprise networks 

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away

  Sources say the Post Office doesn’t know whether millions of pounds of branch discrepancies are real or not

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages

  Law enforcement and police experts meet on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images amid growing opposition from security experts

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility: Mercedes-Benz gears up AI-driven experiences in all-electric vehicles

  Digital Chassis powers the next-generation MBUX system in CLA and all-new electric GLC car range to deliver immersive, AI-driven in-cabin functionality, real-time assistance and 5G connectivity

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  EE claims 5G world-first with advanced RAN coordination

  UK’s leading operator becomes first company to launch Advanced RAN Coordination technology in distributed network to deliver more reliable 5G connectivity and 20% faster download speeds, with standalone network offering biggest boost

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  UK contactless card payment limits could be unlimited

  The UK Financial Conduct Authority says contactless payment technology and fraud protections have advanced enough for firms to adjust the limit

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility 2025: Qualcomm and Google Cloud team to enhance in-car experience

  So-called ‘landmark’ technical collaboration brings together Gemini models and Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions to help automakers create deeply personalised and advanced AI agents to redefine customer experience

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility 2025: Cerence AI develops AI agent for working on the go

  Artificial intelligence-based conversational user experience firm develops voice AI agent for the car that integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot to address the rise of mobile work and associated distracted driving risks