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World Communication Awards 2025 shortlist announced

by Harry Baldock | Nov 25, 2025

The World Communication Awards has announced its 2025 shortlist, highlighting the telecom industry’s leading innovators.

ACOME talks tackling ambitious carbon goals and the conundrum of cost

by Harry Baldock | Oct 30, 2025

Interviews At Connected Britain, we spoke with Aurelien Bergonzo, Director of Telecom Datacom, and...

Equinix leans into nuclear power for its data centre empire

by Harry Baldock | Aug 18, 2025

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company®, announced it is working with leading energy companies that are developing innovative approaches to generating reliable and sustainable electricity to support the needs of Equinix data centers worldwide

Openreach to use fibre sensing to detect nearby water leaks

by Harry Baldock | Aug 14, 2025

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.

Nokia launches digital twin platform Enscryb to digitalise energy sector

by Harry Baldock | Jul 2, 2025

Nokia has announced its latest venture, Enscryb, an energy innovation platform, is partnering with NODES, an energy trading company. In addition, Enscryb has also secured and onboarded two customers: Nanuq, a charging infrastructure company, and Smartecon, a renewable energy provider.

Standards led and AI driven, building a new era of green networks

by Harry Baldock | Jun 19, 2025

During the Digital Transformation Summit (DTW 25), Huawei, in collaboration with industry organizations, hosted the fourth Green Development Forum to address the imperative of achieving green and low-carbon development in communication networks amid climate change. Attendees engaged in comprehensive discussions on the standardization of the Green Network Index (GNI), AI-driven energy efficiency, and practices for zero-carbon architecture, mapping out trends toward a sustainable, zero-carbon network.

Teamwork makes the green work: How telcos are teaming up to drive sustainability at scale

by Georgia Sweeting | May 30, 2025

Interview BT’s Head of Environmental Sustainability Gabrielle Ginér explains how the Joint...

VMO2’s Recycle for Business service processes 45,000 devices

by Harry Baldock | May 13, 2025

This week, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has shared that its O2 Recycle for Business initiative has helped save 45,000 devices from being sent to landfill since it was relaunched in October 2023.

AI usage to drive global telco sustainability – report

by Georgia Sweeting | Jan 21, 2025

A new report from Liberty Global and EY has highlighted the role that AI could play in helping the telecoms sector to achieve sustainability milestones over the next decade.

Sparkle signs deal to recycle 22,000km of submarine cable

by Harry Baldock | Jan 15, 2025

The new partnership with Oceanic Environmental Cables (OEC) save more than 35,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO₂e) from reusing the cable materials

BT Group places UK’s largest ever Electric Vehicle order

by Georgia Sweeting | Jan 9, 2025

BT has announced the largest-ever commercial electric vehicle (EV) order in the UK, as the company continues its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. The order includes 3,500 new EVs, which will contribute to BT Group’s goal of operating the largest fleet of electric vehicles in the UK, with nearly 8,000 vehicles by 2026.

Talking the language of sustainability

by Harry Baldock | Dec 16, 2024

Ahead of the recent World Communication Awards, we spoke with Sandra Klackenborn, Head of Sustainability at Arelion, to discuss the growing energy challenge and how the industry must do more to tackle the issue collaboratively

World Communication Award winners 2024

by Harry Baldock | Dec 11, 2024

Held last night at The Marriott, Grosvenor Square, in London, the 26th World Communication Awards were a huge success! On behalf of the judges, we would like to congratulate all of the incredible winners.

BT deploys ‘self-powering’ mobile site in Shropshire

by Harry Baldock | Oct 23, 2024

The operator says around 70% of the site’s energy needs are expected to be generate by on-site wind turbines and solar panels

Tackling the take-up challenge: A focus on tailored solutions

by Harry Baldock | Oct 10, 2024

At Connected Britain 2024, we caught up with Telenco UK’s managing director Clement Lesur about the health of the UK’s broadband market and how operators are looking for increasingly tailored solutions to connect their end customers.

Brits urged to go ‘urban mining’ for copper in ‘drawers of doom’

by Harry Baldock | Oct 9, 2024

A new study suggests that forgotten drawers containing old phones, cables, and electrical goods could cumulatively contain nearly 40,000 tonnes of valuable copper

Eliminating ‘take, make and waste’ in the telecoms supply chain

by Harry Baldock | Sep 30, 2024

Unipart Logistics’ Steve Carter talks sustainability and making the supply chain more circular at Connected Britain 2024

Nokia launches sustainability calculator for private networks

by Harry Baldock | Sep 20, 2024

This tool helps companies estimate the environmental and social benefits of using private wireless networks and the new Industry 4.0 applications they enable

VMO2’s data centre cooling optimisation will save £1m a year

by Harry Baldock | Sep 19, 2024

According to Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), working in partnership with EkkoSense across 20 of the company’s UK data centres has led to an average saving of 15% in data centre cooling energy usage.