The evolution of SD-WAN and promise of 5G are moving operators and SASE vendors closer together
As operators evolve enterprise portfolios to include not just advancements in SD-WAN but also leverage massive investments in 5G to support enhanced workforce mobility, security has come into sharp...
In May, EE said that its 5G network had already surpassed 50% population coverage in the U.K.
U.K. telco EE says it has turned up 2.1 GHz frequencies on its network across 14 towns and cities to support the latest 5G smartphones.
EE said in a...
The RIC is key to Open RAN network programmability and automation
Looking past the TCO benefits associated with Open RAN, the real value operators are chasing (and vendors are working to prove out and monetize) has to do with new, innovative ways of operating disaggregated...
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, an international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, was held in Birmingham, England. This year’s event featured more than 5,000 athletes from 72 nations, 19 different sports and a private network provided by BT. Partnering with the...
It's the first time 4CCA has been tested outside a lab in Europe, the companies claim
BT announced Monday that it has successfully tested four component-carrier (4CC) carrier aggregation on a 5G Standalone (SA) network in commercial frequencies. Using EE’s live network, BT said it and...
The ban originally stipulated that telecoms operators in the UK had until January 28, 2023 to remove all Huawei equipment from the most sensitive core networks
U.K. carrier BT has requested an extension to the U.K. government’s deadline for removing Huawei equipment from its core...
The deployment of the 5G private network will enable the port and its customers to take advantage of advanced technology such as IoT and AI
The Port of Tyne, in the UK has partnered with BT to install a new 5G Private Network as well...
Pelion provides global cellular connectivity coverage on 2G, 3G and 4G LTE as well as NB-IoT via several direct agreements with Tier 1 operator partners
IoT connectivity service provider Pelion announced an extension of its partnership with BT Wholesale, which will provide Pelion customers access...
Private networks enable new applications and IoT capabilities such as asset tracking, predictive maintenance and connected sensors
BT and Ericsson announced a new partnership to provide commercial 5G private networks for the UK market, the latter said in a release.
The two companies have signed a...
UK telecoms group BT has revealed a ‘charter’ to invest almost £100 million over the next three years in its new Division X digital change unit, which is at the heart of its broader strategy to establish itself as a ‘tech-co’ (“not a telco”),...
Working towards 2030 sustainability
British Telecom (BT) this week announced a new edge compute solution as part of its manifesto to help customers reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 million tons by the year 2030. The new effort uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by QiO...
BT highlighted that this new type of receiver may reduce mobile network energy consumption
U.K. carrier BT announced a trial of a new hyper-sensitive quantum antenna technology using "excited atomic states", which could boost the capability of next-generation 5G and IoT networks.
The operator noted that...
EE initially launched 5G technology in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham and Manchester
U.K. carrier EE announced its 5G network has already passed 50% population coverage in the country.
EE, which had launched its 5G network in May 2019, claimed to be the only mobile operator...
The LoRa Alliance has moved to head off fears about a collapse of LoRaWAN as a public network technology in Europe, following the decision by Bouygues Telecom in France to shut down its Objenious LoRaWAN network from 2024, by declaring a 66 percent jump...
EY will be the quantum secured network’s first commercial customer and will use it to connect two of its sites in London
Yesterday, BT and Toshiba announced the launch trial of what they claimed to be the world’s first commercial quantum secured metro network. Connecting...
EE expects to reach half of the U.K. population with its 5G service by early 2023
U.K. carrier EE claimed to be the first European network to successfully aggregate a 5G signal using seven different spectrum carriers, the telco said in a release.
The experiment was...
The operator pack, as one would expect, is dividing in two around the Industry 4.0 market, suggests UK-based BT, with serious-minded enterprise-geared providers restructuring their sales operations in order to ‘prime’ the pumps, and switch on a new flow of private 5G, industrial IoT,...
EE and Nokia have already installed small cells in Leeds, London and Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool, among other cities
UK carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, said it has successfully deployed 200 new small cells across its network to boost capacity in high...
The BT robotics lab emulates three different types of environments in which testing can be carried out: Underground, in-duct and overhead environments
BT has opened a dedicated, 5,000+ square-foot telecoms civil engineering robotics test facility at its BT Labs in the U.K. The lab, located in Suffolk,...
U.K. telco BT Group has selected Oracle Communications Cloud Native Converged Policy Management to optimize its network resources and bring new 5G offerings to market.
In a release, Oracle noted that the solution will enable BT to test and implement 5G services—such as live streaming...
In the end, 5G is all about the consumer. Except it is not; most of the innovation will come in the enterprise space. That appeared to be the conclusion of a panel session at 5G World in London today, which represented a first foray...
Deutsche Telekom, China Unicom, Orange, China Mobile, and Vodafone have ranked top, apparently in order, in an assessment of 20 mobile network operators for enterprise 5G connectivity. These five are “clear leaders in this space”, said author ABI Research, and head the market from...
