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UK energy regulator Ofgem has greenlit five new subsea energy links in the North Sea. -
Ofcom has revealed the UK’s next spectrum auction will take place in 2025, offering mmWave band licences in the 25.1-27.5 GHz and 40.5-43.5 GHz bands.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) says it is the first UK operator to have switched on 5G standalone (SA) small cells in Birmingham city centre.
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In a major collaborative effort, GSMA and UK Finance have united leading UK mobile operators and banks to launch Scam Signal, a new tool designed to tackle Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.
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BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued provisional approval for Vodafone and Three’s planned merger, indicating that the proposed £15 billion joint venture could proceed if certain conditions to protect competition and consumers are met.
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Three of the world’s top five economies are now in recession, after Japan recorded a 7.8% decline in GDP, April to June.
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One of the shareholders in the bankrupt OneWeb satellite company has joined the UK-Indian rescue attempt with a US$50 million investment.
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Vodafone has announced that its European network will be powered by 100% renewable electricity no later than July 2021.
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The US has won its battle to make the UK ban Huawei from new 5G networks, the government announced today.
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Technology is going to become regionalised, but “that does not mean that a full splinternet is inevitable”, says a new report from Fitch Solutions.
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The UK’s government statistical authority has admitted that it knows little about what’s happened in the telecoms market over the past few decades.
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The UK and the owner of Indian operator Bharti Airtel are set to own a 90% stake in bankrupt satellite company OneWeb after winning an auction on Friday evening.
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Throughout the pandemic, questions have been asked about what the post-Covid world could, and should, look like.
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The British city of Cambridge is to host the Huawei Campus after the Asian tech giant received approval for the project’s first phase.
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Areas of Aberdeen, Brighton and Oxford have become the latest in the UK to connect to 5G, as O2 surpassed its target to switch the network on in 50 locations by summer 2020.
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CityFibre has announced the creation of “up to 10,000” new jobs over the next 36 months, as Britain upgrades to full fibre infrastructure as part of the government’s “gigabit connectivity by 2025” pledge.
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The chair of Commsworld has called on stakeholders to embrace new technology to tackle the “lack of equitable growth” in UK tech – an issue exasperated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
