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• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Qualcomm unveils next-gen MR, VR devices based on Snapdragon platform

  New premium-tier extended reality platform is said to deliver 50% higher sustained power and 30% improved thermal performance to enable more immersive metaverse experiences in smaller, lighter form factors

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  UK Atomic Energy Authority makes call on new UC telephony

  National nuclear-based research facility replaces inflexible cloud-based system to add agility to enable staff to collaborate more effectively in a hybrid working approach

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Community Fibre secures £985m finance facility

  London and South East-based gigabit connectivity provider announces massive cash injection

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Gitex 2022: Avaya aims for innovation without disruption as it reveals cloud comms partners

  Global communications and collaboration firm showcases business outcomes at leading expo and announces new strategic partnership with conversational AI provider and cloud telecoms and technology solutions company

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Small businesses bask in broadband benefits as UK full-fibre reaches 11 million homes

  As more SMEs shift towards hybrid working, better broadband becomes a priority. Studies from research firm and UK comms regulator show full-fibre availability is on the increase, with almost two in five able to access services

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Nokia launches SaaS for fixed networks portfolio

  Comms tech giant intros software as a service for fixed networks portfolio line-up covering broadband and Wi-Fi controller, as well as operational tools

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Oracle unveils 5G cloud-native network analytics suite

  Data giant claims to put communications network data analytics function first with portfolio of statistical and predictive 5G network core analytics services

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Broadcasters reveal 5G, satellite connectivity deployment for live coverage of Queen’s funeral

  Standalone 5G network in a box and integrated wireless connectivity based on Starlink satellite broadband used in live remote broadcast production in coverage of transport of late Queen to Edinburgh Airport and of London funeral

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Satellite 5G boost as SES-20 and SES-21 launches confirmed

  As part of its plan to continue delivering network services while freeing up C-band spectrum to enable the deployment of 5G across the US, satellite operator SES has announced the successful launch of its SES-20 and SES-21 craft

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Australia to amend telecoms regulations following Optus breach

  Amendments to Australia’s telecoms regulations are in the works to temporarily allow sharing of individuals’ identifier information between telcos and financial institutions

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Private investors back innovators to boost African connectivity

  Local operator research finds nearly four out of five VC and private equity firms believe innovation in connectivity will drive expansion in Africa, despite infrastructure issues

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  India telcos chart revenue growth with cloud and OTT services

  Telcos in India are eyeing new revenue streams from cloud and content services, but whether they can successfully monetise the offerings remains to be seen

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Policy action needed for EU to achieve 5G goals

  Report finds that economic contribution of mobile continues to expand in Europe, but market dynamics are impeding 5G’s progress throughout the region and further regulation may be needed to hit digital goals

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Orange Belgium, KPN plot 5G course for world’s smartest waterway

  Operators plan to submit grant application to European Commission for project to use 5G to ensure secure and highly reliable connectivity and accelerate further digitisation in one of Europe’s most important corridors

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Mavenir to deliver cloud-based 5G solutions on Google Cloud

  Telecoms software provider and cloud giant team to offer combined system with containerised and micro-serviced converged 5G packet core, IP multimedia subsystem, messaging, orchestration, AI and telco analytics, and Open RAN products

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  UK a broadband laggard as altnets grab share from incumbents

  Ookla overview of UK broadband market reveals that while fibre development is accelerating throughout the country, median fixed broadband download and upload speeds compare badly with global market

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Harrison Drury elevates its employee, customer experience with Avaya OneCloud UCaaS

  Solicitor’s transition to cloud-based unified communications-as-a-service platform modernises communications and sets up platform to support business’s strategy of providing a hybrid workplace

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Vodafone confirms Three UK merger talks

  UK’s mid-sized operators begin negotiations on consolidation to gain the scale to accelerate roll-out of 5G in the UK, expand broadband connectivity to rural communities and small businesses, and offer stronger competition

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  BT Group sees network gains through AI Accelerator

  Telco announces new platform to orchestrate, accelerate and monitor artificial intelligence model deployments developed by its data community and to drive efficiencies

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Three-quarters of business professionals want to embrace the metaverse

  Study from networking systems, services and software company reveals business professionals’ interest in metaverse pointing to utilising more immersive and connected digital applications in the workplace

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  City of Las Vegas bets on NTT for largest private 5G network in US

  Sin City sees no gamble in placing its chips on private 5G networks in new infrastructure designed to create opportunities for businesses, government and educational institutions

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Hyperoptic, Community Fibre take gigabit highway to Islington

  Inner London local authority signs deal so that more than 90% of homes and businesses will be connected to gigabit by August 2025, including 50 community hubs

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  UK government rolls out Project Gigabit to rural Teesdale

  £6.6m contract granted in north-east England as part of national programme to upgrade broadband for hard-to-reach premises, with GoFibre engaged as principal contractor for build out

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Du, Nokia, MediaTek combine three 5G TDD carriers to claim ‘highest throughput ever’

  Comms tech provider and mobile chip company team with Middle East operator in first carrier aggregation of its kind, combining high-speed 5G bands to aggregate 300MHz of spectrum for throughput of up to 4.520 Gbps

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  BSH Home Appliances takes on Twilio to revamp digital customer engagement

  Customer engagement platform partners with Deloitte Consulting to support plan by home appliances firm to revamp its entire digital infrastructure within customer service organisation

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  IoT success fuelling further expansion

  Survey reveals profound change around the benefits derived from internet of things over past 12 months, with senior decision-makers focused on operational efficiencies, reducing costs, and increasing revenue and profit

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Neos Networks to connect Viking Wind Farm to SSE Renewables HQ

  Business connectivity provider constructs communications links between wind farm being built on Scottish island and headquarters on mainland more than 300 miles away with machine-to-machine network to control and monitor performance of wind turbines...

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Zain Kuwait taps Accedian, Cisco for ‘unparalleled’ network performance monitoring and analytics

  Middle East mobile voice and data services operator deploys automated assurance network technology to boost customer experience of performance and availability

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Nokia, Speedcast deploy private wireless connectivity for Origem Energia in Brazil

  Private wireless solution will deliver critical network operations to 600 gas production wells at Brazilian sustainable energy firm

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Businesses see fixed broadband charges rise as average bandwidth increases

  Latest roundup of global fixed broadband arena shows residential consumers reaping speed and cost rewards of fibre proliferation, while B2B subscribers see little improvement in bandwidth versus monthly charges

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  5G fixed wireless access services to see huge growth

  Spending on 5G fixed wireless access services is set to explode globally over the next 12 months

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  Flex muscles up 5G SA private wireless, Industry 4.0 in advanced manufacturing

  Leading comms tech provider teams with multinational electronics company to combine 5G SA private wireless and Industry 4.0 expertise for advanced manufacturing services in Brazil

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  WBA unveils ‘world-first’ combination of Wi-Fi 6E, OpenRoaming

  Trial of combined wireless technologies at Polytechnic Institute of Viseu said to showcase the future of higher education, including 8K video and interactive experiences in classrooms

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Linksys lines up deals with UK gigabit ISPs for Wi-Fi 6 mesh solutions

  Business Wi-Fi networking solutions firm partners with growing UK full-fibre gigabit broadband ISPs to offer mesh wireless network systems claimed to deliver four times faster coverage across the home

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Smartphone trade-in value rises as average age of devices breaks 3.5-year threshold

  Analysis of mobile trade-ins reveals increasing handset longevity and rising value of used devices, with US$767m returned to US buyers in the second quarter

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Full-stack observability top priority for IT teams

  Annual forecast reveals observability – the ability to see everything in the tech stack that could affect customer experience – has become a board-level imperative, but only a quarter of organisations have achieved it

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  IBM and Airtel team to bring secured edge cloud services to Indian enterprises

  Indian telco teams with IT giant with aim of using network of edge datacentres to help businesses address critical business needs with greater efficiency, making it easier for companies to process workloads where their data resides

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Airtel to deploy edge computing platform

  Bharti Airtel will deploy its multi-access edge compute platform across India to support edge computing applications in manufacturing and other industries, as India gears up for 5G

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  BICS partners with Thales to simplify eSIM integration for IoT

  International connectivity and global IoT enabler partners with technology provider to take simplicity of consumer eSIMs to the broader internet of things while further streamlining connectivity activation for enterprises

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Deutsche Telekom deploys converged packet core to boost enterprise 5G

  Leading German operator deploys cloud-native standalone core, marking key milestone in the evolution of 5G architecture with scale and flexibility required to deliver innovative 5G standalone services to enterprise customers

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Amdocs claims industry’s first 5G-native charging system

  5G- and cloud-native charging product will provide ‘endless’ monetisation opportunities for advanced standalone 5G and beyond, backed by proven multicloud deployment experience, says Amdocs

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  New networking era imminent as global internet bandwidth rises 28% in 2022

  TeleGeography’s Global Internet Geography research service shows continuing return to ‘normal’ following the pandemic-generated bump of 2020, as demand looks to quickly transcend terabyte measure

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Nokia boosts business software to enhance time to value

  Leading communications technology provider strengthens software portfolio to focus on security, automation and monetisation, while introducing digital ecosystem programme to accelerate innovation through collaboration with partners and customers

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Verizon VRAN velocity gains as fibre pushed to almost half of cell sites

  Communications giant takes advantage of extensive fibre broadband network to support mobile infrastructure, which is seeing significant push into virtualised radio access network technology in cell sites

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Gigaclear selects EXFO fibre monitoring to assist rapid network expansion

  Developer of test, monitoring and analytics services engaged by UK ISP for remote fibre testing and monitoring offering to improve efficiency of deployment and fault identification

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Spaceflight takes Astrocast IoT constellation to orbit

  Global nanosatellite IoT network inks commercial arrangement with NewSpace India to launch four spacecraft aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle mission

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Nokia, Telia Finland claim world-first commercial 5G SA FWA network with network slicing

  Finnish operator and compatriot comms technology giant announce the launch of world’s first commercial 5G standalone network with network slicing for fixed wireless access services

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Full-fibre gathers pace as Lightning strikes across South East while CityFibre looks north

  East Sussex-based altnet spreads its wings across coastal regions of southern England with fibre offer into two neighbouring counties, as leading independent provider lands in Hartlepool

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Third of IT decision-makers rely on gut feel when choosing network operator

  Study from customer experience technology provider shows lack of transparency is cited as the most consistent quality failure of network providers

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Singtel and Intel team up on 5G

  Singtel and Intel have started an incubation programme to spearhead the development of enterprise 5G applications in areas including content delivery and video analytics