Virgin Media O2 gives Chelsea stadium a mobile infra upgrade
News The upgrades will provide customers with more reliable service during busy football matches...
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Brady updates mobile labelling solutions to tackle telecom network maintenance challenges
Telecom engineers and field crews can now print durable cable identification on site, according to labelling specialist Brady, which has updated its mobile labelling offerings to target the needs of network maintenance and installation.
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STC, Mobily, and OneWeb NEOM among winners at inaugural Connected World KSA Awards
Connected World KSA is proud to reveal the winners of its first-ever Connected World KSA Awards, presented today during the event at Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center.
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Hype cycles and reality checks: EY’s Rob Atkinson dissects AI and data centres at Connected Britain
At Connected Britain 2025 we sat down with Rob Atkinson from EY to explore the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the telecoms sector
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Network visibility and differentiation at the ‘altnet inflection point’
At Connected Britain 2025, we caught up with Aprecomm’s Daniel Fearon to discuss the economic crunch facing the UK’s fibre altnet market and what they can do to differentiate themselves from the competition
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Orange Business plugs OneWeb into its crisis comms solution
This week, Orange Business has announced it is incorporating Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellite services into its SafetyCase solution.
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Connected Britain Awards winners 2025 announced!
The Connected Britain Awards winners have been announced, following a highly successful Connected Britain conference
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Building the UK’s digital future: Why fibre quality and longevity matter
At present, 86% of homes can connect to gigabit-capable broadband, but the remaining 14%—largely rural and remote properties—remain underserved. By 2032, the target is for 99% of premises to be connected.
Achieving this will require thousands of kilometres of new fibre, but equally significant is the need for upgrades to existing networks to meet rising demand.
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OpenAI and NVIDIA to leverage new AI growth zone in North East England
An AI Growth Zone in the North East is set to unlock more than 5,000 new jobs and bring in £30 billion in investment as the region becomes a hub for AI development.
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Why collaboration is the key to scaling the UK’s fibre future
Scaling full fibre across the UK is not just an engineering challenge. It’s a market challenge, an ecosystem challenge, and above all a collaboration challenge. The question is not whether the UK needs better digital infrastructure – the answer is clear. The real question is how the industry works together to deliver it at scale and speed.
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Watch this space: DE-CIX planning orbital Internet Exchange
The Space-IX initiative will work to outline how best to connect the ever-growing orbital infrastructure ecosystem
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Telco transformation and the AI efficiency imperative
We caught up with Joaquim Croca, Vice President at global engineering and technology company Cyient, to discuss the pressures facing telcos and their automation journey
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Newcastle teams up with Purple to expand free Wi-Fi access
This week, Newcastle City Council has announced a new partership with global digital connectivity firm Purple to launch a unified city-wide Wi-Fi network.
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Designing for impact: How product innovation is enabling scalable, intelligent infrastructure
As the UK fibre rollout shifts into a “fibre utility” phase, the opportunity lies not just in building networks, but in designing products that match the way businesses and public services now operate.
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Vodafone partners with Simetric for ‘Single-Pane-of-Glass’ IoT platform
Vodafone IoT and Simetric have announced a new partnership, which combines both companies’ industry-leading IoT platforms to create a ‘Single-Pane-of-Glass’ overview for customers’ IoT estates.
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South Africa looks to consolidate fibre networks of state-owned enterprises
According to recent reports, South Africa is advancing efforts to coordinate and consolidate public fiber infrastructure across state-owned enterprises (SOEs), aiming to improve digital connectivity, reduce costs, and expand high-speed internet access to underserved areas.
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Nokia looks to modernise rail connectivity with new 5G radio
Along with an optimized Nokia 5G standalone (SA) core for railways, the solution enables seamless migration to FRMCS on a global scale
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Boldyn Networks and VMO2 deploy Open RAN 5G at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light
Press Release Boldyn Networks (Boldyn) and Virgin Media O2 have significantly enhanced 5G...
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Openreach to use fibre sensing to detect nearby water leaks
The UK’s largest fibre network operator, Openreach, has announced a pair of trials with water companies and tech partners, aiming to use their network to quickly identify costly leaks.
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Propellers prove a challenge for 5G in NASA’s latest aviation tests
In a recent blog post, NASA has revealed it is testing the suitability of 5G networks to support electric air taxis and future urban air mobility systems.
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