World Communication Award Winners 2025
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Tag: Sustainability
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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Climate action specialist, Carma, partners with challenger broadband player
New partnership aiming to plant one million trees or kelp within its first five years
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Breathe London: Vodafone’s IoT to to help monitor London’s air quality
Vodafone is leading a new consortium of partners to deliver the next phase of the Mayor of London’s pioneering Breathe London programme, delivering an advanced and comprehensive network of monitors to measure air quality across the capital and encourage action to tackle air pollution
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Nokia launches digital twin platform Enscryb to digitalise energy sector
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.
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VMO2’s Recycle for Business service processes 45,000 devices
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.
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Sparkle signs deal to recycle 22,000km of submarine cable
The new partnership with Oceanic Environmental Cables (OEC) save more than 35,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO₂e) from reusing the cable materials
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Talking the language of sustainability
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
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Smart cities and the neutral host approach
The neutral host infrastructure model is making waves in UK, not only for its cost efficiency for operators but also for its inherent sustainability.
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BT deploys ‘self-powering’ mobile site in Shropshire
The operator says around 70% of the site’s energy needs are expected to be generate by on-site wind turbines and solar panels
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“We’re on track to close the loop”: Adtran talks data, AI, and network automation at Connected Britain
At this year’s Connected Britain conference, we caught up with Eric Joyce, Director of Technology and Solutions, EMEA at Adtran, to discuss the biggest trends in the telecoms industry, from the UK altnets’ growing interest in 50G PON to the path towards autonomous networks.
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Tackling the take-up challenge: A focus on tailored solutions
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.
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Brits urged to go ‘urban mining’ for copper in ‘drawers of doom’
A new study suggests that forgotten drawers containing old phones, cables, and electrical goods could cumulatively contain nearly 40,000 tonnes of valuable copper
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Eliminating ‘take, make and waste’ in the telecoms supply chain
Unipart Logistics’ Steve Carter talks sustainability and making the supply chain more circular at Connected Britain 2024
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Data centre boom a “big opportunity”, says Netceed
We caught up with Netceed’s Director of Telecoms, Steve Doddington, at this year’s Connected Britain to discuss how the UK telecoms market is rebounding from a slow year and how AI-fuelled data centre growth is a major opportunity for suppliers.
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“Regulation is working”: The broadband market is more competitive than ever, says Openreach
At Connected Britain 2024, we spoke with Openreach’s chief commercial officer, Katie Milligan, to discuss the company’s latest Project Gigabit contracts, sustainability progress, and how Sky’s new deal with CityFibre will affect competition in the retail market.
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Nokia launches sustainability calculator for private networks
This tool helps companies estimate the environmental and social benefits of using private wireless networks and the new Industry 4.0 applications they enable
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VMO2’s data centre cooling optimisation will save £1m a year
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.
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Connected Britain Awards 2024 Shortlist
With a record number of submissions, this year’s competition has been more competitive than ever. We would like to thank all those who entered the competition and offer our congratulations to those who have made the shortlist this year.
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Nap time: EE rolls out energy-saving ‘cell sleep’ tech to mobile network
This week, EE has announced that it has rolled out its new dynamic ‘cell sleep’ technology across its 4G mobil network, potentially greatly reducing its power consumption.
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