BT taps Juniper for for telco cloud, Canonical for open source core
With its mobile unit EE in the early days of offering up 5G, parent company BT has recently made strategic investments that underpin the operator's plans for a cloud-native, converged network that uses...
Our world is becoming more connected every single day. We’re experiencing the advent of autonomous vehicles, smart cities and 5G. New technologies like robotics, quantum computing and virtual reality are entering our personal and professional lives each and every day. In order to harness...
UK medics and telecoms engineers have demostrated a 5G connected ambulance and a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network.
The showcase has been carried out by telecoms provider BT and University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB), an NHS foundation trust . It has been...
U.K. carrier EE will be launching 5G services imminently, its parent company BT said in a financial release.
BT said EE is on track to launch 5G technology in 16 cities across the U.K. with a range of device partners.
“Our aim is to deliver the...
UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said the trials represent the first of Wi-Fi 6 for enterprise and industrial internet-of-things (IoT)...
BT said this initiative will speed up the deployment of 4G and 5G in city centers
U.K. telecommunications group BT has called for an end to exclusive concessions agreements governing access to council-owned street furniture, in a bid to speed up the delivery of 4G...
The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency
BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery lockers across the UK.
Following a number of customer contract wins, the U.K. carrier said that the business...
Companies already testing 5G in industrial environments are Worcester Bosch and Yamazaki Mazak
The U.K.’s first live 5G factory trials have been launched at the Worcestershire 5G Testbed, according to the U.K.-government-backed Worcestershire 5G Consortium.
The smart factory trials allow manufacturers to test the potential of...
As more countries scrutinize Huawei, the government is currently assessing potential security threats for local telecom network infrastructure
A government review into telecoms security which will recommend whether Huawei should be banned from U.K. telecom networks is expected to be completed in March, Sky News...
The UK telco said that Huawei will not provide 5G equipment for BT’s core network but will continue to be a key provider outside the core network
U.K. carrier BT is carrying out a long-running program to replace equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei in the...
The UK carrier said initial 5G services will be available in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester
UK carrier EE has announced plans to launch 5G sites in 16 UK cities in 2019. The telco, which is part of BT Group, said 5G services...
The carrier said initial 5G services will be available in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester
U.K. carrier EE, part of BT Group, announced plans to launch 5G sites in 16 cities in 2019, the telco said in a statement. 5G services will be initially...
The carrier aims to launch its 5G commercial service in 2019
U.K .telecom operator EE, part of BT Group, announced that nine 5G trial sites are now live across East London.
“Deploying this brand new layer of our EE mobile network is far from straightforward, and...
Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. What are the sync requirements? How many slices? Where is the edge? Every time,...
“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version of 5G that radio engineers are preparing and network marketers are promoting is only...
The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces have compounded the challenge with backwards rules about 5G radio operations.
As a consequence, radio...
Dan Schulman has telecom history with Sprint, Virgin Mobile USA
Paypal President and CEO Dan Schulman has joined the Verizon board, effective yesterday. Schulman comes to Verizon's board with experience in both the payments space and a history in the mobile industry -- he was...
UK telecoms provider BT is to underpin the delivery of flood response mechanisms with an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for the Environment Agency in England.
BT has been contract by infrastructure and support services company Stobart Group, as part of its four-year project with...
Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...
BT chief executive Gavin Patterson has been sacked, after shareholders finally lost patience with the beleaguered British group's strategy and performance. BT's stock has slumped to a six-year low on the back of slowing performance, job cuts, regulatory fines, and accounting scandals.
BT chief executive...
The U.K. carrier said five businesses and five homes will be connected to 5G technology during the trial
The United Kingdom's largest mobile carrier, EE, plans to launch what it claims to be the U.K.’s first live 5G trial network in East London in October.
Under...
Amazon's ground-breaking deal for Premier League football rights has compounded a difficult period for BT chief executive Gavin Patterson, which has included massive job cuts, accounting scandals, record fines, and slower revenues.
BT has had its grip loosened on Premier League football rights in the...
BT secured spectrum in the 3.4 GHz band and plans to bid in 700 MHz spectrum auction
U.K. telecom group BT says it will launch commercial 5G services before the end of next year, the company’s CEO Gavin Patterson said during a recent conference call...
UK carriers have paid £1.35 billion ($1.9bn) in the first stage of bidding for new 3.4 GHz radio spectrum, for use with 5G services, including high-bandwidth IoT-based concepts like autonomous driving. The new 3.4GHz allocation is the first bandwidth to be made available for...
