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Telecoms networks and broadband communications

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  UK government announces further funding for tech innovators to seize 5G opportunities

  Next stage in national programme to pioneer new ways to take advantage of the potential of next-generation networks helping companies harness the power of 5G and boost economic productivity

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  UK contact-tracing app to be launched ‘shortly’ as Northern Ireland deploys service

  Launch imminent for long-awaited and controversial mobile application described as ‘cherry on the cake’ of UK’s Covid-19 test and trace strategy

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

  Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council services

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK rural full-fibre broadband network expanded further

  Over three million more homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK given the opportunity to get ultra-reliable, gigabit-ready, full-fibre broadband by mid-2020s

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  EE attains leadership in UK mobile network performance in first half of 2020

  As the way in which people use networks has dramatically changed over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, 5G is changing the game in UK mobile, research has found

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  £400m full-fibre broadband expansion as Warburg Pincus, DTCP take control of Community Fibre

  Expansion of full-fibre network across London will deliver up to 10Gbps of broadband to a million households and businesses

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Enterprises experience ‘productivity tax’ as remote work environments set for long term

  Remote work productivity tracker shows employee productivity has dipped in certain regions and use cases since the advent of Covid-19, perhaps permanently

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Firms face remote working challenges as IT teams express concern about infrastructure

  Post-lockdown survey finds UK-based IT leaders lack confidence in their organisation’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis as Covid-19 dramatically accelerates cloud adoption

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  US Cellular taps Nokia, Ericsson to build out 5G infrastructure

  Scandinavian comms tech suppliers on board to support US’s fourth largest telco’s journey to next-generation services

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  O2 gains KPMG mandate to meet new demand for remote working

  O2 will provide connectivity tools to help support professional services provider’s operational activity

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Global telco 5G network infrastructure spending set to almost double in 2020

  Research firm finds investments in next-generation networks will reach just over one-fifth of total wireless infrastructure spend

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Ofcom to free up additional spectrum for wireless services

  Regulator takes steps to boost home network users who are now in their home offices and will be there for a considerable period of time

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  MainOne West African submarine cable implements Infinera to boost spectrum capacity

  Comms tech provider works with global operator to optimise performance on undersea cable serving as West African backbone network for Orange’s international connectivity in Africa

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  Hybrid working becomes the new collaboration imperative

  New report reveals that ‘astutely’ navigating work practices, spaces and culture will help respond to crisis, redefine the purpose and reinvent the future of work

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Amdocs boosts 5G portfolio with Openet acquisition

  Deal will bring Openet’s open and network-centric technologies to Amdocs’ portfolio of more than 350 service provider customers worldwide

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Telekom Slovenije introduces 5G

  Slovenia’s leading telco unveils the first in a number of phases in its evolution towards next-gen communications

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Aryaka, Check Point announce global managed security partnership

  Cloud-first-managed wide area network provider and threat prevention specialist collaborate to produce integrated security and SD-WAN-as-a-service solution

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  China doubles up on ‘new infrastructure’ investments

  China is shoring up investments in cloud computing, datacentres and the internet of things, among other areas, to ready itself for the post-Covid-19 world

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  UK government ignored civil service warning of no benefit in acquisition of OneWeb

  Civil service revealed to have taken the rare step of alerting government that $500m investment in troubled satellite company would bring no discernible benefit

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Verizon completes long-haul 800Gbps single-wavelength fibre data session

  US comms giant sends 800Gbps across long-distance fibre in preparation for significant increase in amount of data from enterprise and consumer 5G applications

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  UK government moves forward on Shared Rural Network scheme

  UK government issues written statement supporting the deployment of 5G and extending 4G mobile coverage to hitherto badly served rural area

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Nokia launches first commercial enterprise 5G standalone private wireless networking

  New technology aims to provide ‘direct to 5G’ entry point for high-spec industrial use case validation and ecosystem development

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

  Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  Manchester City Council deploys 8x8 to maintain remote services

  One of the UK’s largest local government authorities implements cloud-based communications system to keep critical services running while keeping agents safe during UK lockdown

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  A1, Telstra tap Nokia to enhance 5G evolution and pilot network slicing

  Self-organising network software deployed to boost automation of leading Australian comms operator’s wide radio access networks as it continues its evolution towards 5G services

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Cloudflare apologises for major net outage

  Incident from network engineering team’s routine router configuration update work sees major outage on backbone leading to drops in internet services in Europe, US and Latin America

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Ericsson calls for Europe to ramp up 5G as it wins SoftBank cloud dual-mode core contract

  Cloud-native, dual-mode 5G core will provide container-based microservice architecture to help Japanese operator develop new business models

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  US remote workers take significant productivity hit through IT disruption

  Analysis of remote employee experience and digital workplace post-Covid finds enterprise remote workers have encountered long wait times to address IT and other technical issues

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  India’s Jio Platforms eyes global 5G opportunity

  Indian mobile network operator Jio Platforms has built a 5G solution that will meet domestic and global demand for 5G services

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  UK’s first 5G accelerator gains speed

  UK 5G testbed springs into life with 12 hours of content in a virtual event lasting over two days, offering business-orientated training programme to show the benefits the technology can bring to enterprises

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  ‘Future-ready’ attributes key to business resiliency beyond Covid-19, says Vodafone

  Social responsibility, sustainability and purpose remain essential as consumers demand clearer commitments, with broadening employer diversity and increasing workplace flexibility key to address growing skill gaps

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Unified communications experiencing fastest growth ever in the midst of Covid-19

  Customer interest in UCaaS spikes 86% during the Covid-19 pandemic as firms across all industries modernise communications systems for the new normal

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Verizon tailors BlueJeans conferencing functionality, inks IBM 5G IoT deal

  Newly acquired video-conferencing suite gets feature enhancements as Verizon inks IBM partnership to focus on enabling industrial productivity in 5G-enabled IoT technologies

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Over four-fifths of companies will allow employees to work remotely after lockdown

  Study finds dynamics of the new work situation means organisations need to manage a more complex, hybrid workforce

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  More than 90% of UK’s fixed lines meet the challenges of working from home

  Study from network benchmarking firm Umlaut reveals that despite fears over whether UK networks could cope with mass remote working, only very few fixed-connection users faced limitations

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  NS1 closes $40m series D round to fund connected economy tech

  Multimillion-dollar funding round set to accelerate innovation in modern application and access network solutions that power the connected economy

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  UK comms industry counts the cost of Huawei tech ban

  After UK government takes decision to remove so-called high-risk tech supplier’s 5G products from national communications infrastructure, operators add up the cost to mobile networks

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  London boroughs say Covid-19 shows digital and innovation ‘more important than ever’

  An association of councils in the greater London area notes that local government’s capacity to adopt technology and innovate is essential in coping with the post-pandemic world

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Huawei technology banned from UK national comms infrastructure

  After NCSC advice, and accepting billions in cost and a significant delay to 5G roll-out, UK government takes decision to remove so-called high-risk tech supplier’s 5G products from mobile network, and begins assessment of risk to fixed fibre nets

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Nokia claims readiness to enable 5G transition ‘seamlessly’

  Software upgrade claimed to offer ‘seamless’ transition for installed 4G/LTE technology to 5G infrastructure, avoiding the need for tower climbs enabling immediate enablement of next-generation networks

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Yorkshire Water teams with BT to turn on tap for NB-IoT

  Narrowband internet of things pilot scheme examines potential to optimise the management of utility firm’s estate and provide greater access for local businesses in South Yorkshire to take advantage of IoT advancement to boost economic growth

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  Consistent trust gap in contact-tracing apps in US, Europe

  Survey of more than 16,000 users in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain about mobile applications for Covid-19 tracking reveals global consensus that user trust needs to be rebuilt by giving citizens choice and control

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  Half of UK organisations question the relevance of SD-WAN in Covid-driven remote workplace

  Research reveals confusion among UK organisations concerning SD-WAN, with optimised WAN covering many bases already and over half of firms leaning towards SASE solutions to meet their requirements

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  INCA calls for added investment in apprenticeships and skills to hit government broadband target

  The Independent Networks Cooperative Association welcomes UK government plans to increase investment in workplace training and apprenticeships to address the growing skills shortage in the sector

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Aryaka, 8x8 enhance enterprise communications across managed SD-WAN

  Cloud-first WAN company and integrated cloud communications platform forge partnership to accelerate digital transformation for organisations across global workplaces

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Automotive-telecoms consortium claims successful completion of intelligent transportation project

  Test results show new automotive technology is a reliable and high-performing solution, say partners

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  UK mobile operators warn removing Huawei tech would cost ‘low billions’ and take five years

  Vodafone and BT warn parliamentary committee of serious potential effects on cost, network service availability and 5G roll-out of removing Huawei tech from networks

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Orange, Nokia claim first successful trial of next-gen optical technology

  Next-generation optoelectronics technology designed to allow tripling of total transported capacity on long-haul links

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Locked-down Nationwide staff make 2.5 million video calls in June

  Home-working technologies are no longer just a contingency for large companies, with future working practices set to change