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Private 5G

Verizon launches On Site 5G

Verizon Business has launched 'On Site 5G', which is the network’s first commercially available, private 5G network solution in the US. Custom-designed and managed by Verizon, On Site 5G networks will allow large enterprise and public sector customers to bring Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband capabilities to indoor or outdoor facilities where high 5G speed, high-capacity, low-latency connectivity is crucial, regardless of whether the premises is within a public 5G Ultra Wideband coverage area.
ConnectedUS5G
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TomTom Go Expert

TomTom GO Expert: a 7-Inch HD satnav for professional drivers

TomTom has launched the TomTom GO Expert for professional truck, van and bus drivers. With a 7-Inch high-definition (HD) touchscreen display and a new processor, TomTom says the GO Expert is 4x faster than previous satnavs and packed with powerful features including smart routing for large vehicles and accurate traffic information which make every drive more efficient.
Devices and OSAutomotive
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Lebara

Lebara Mobile now offers Vodafone’s 5G service

Lebara has extended their MVNO partnership with Vodafone UK, in a new three-and-a-half-year exclusive deal. Lebara Mobile customers will now be able to access Vodafone’s 5G service and customers will continue to be able to use Vodafone’s 4G network, with new features such as 4G Calling being launched this year.
5GConnectedUK
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Vodafone OpenRAN Newbury

Vodafone investing in South West to bring benefits to local communities, businesses and visitors

Vodafone has increased its investment in the South West, with two locations in Cornwall – Fistral Beach in Newquay and the community of St Keverne on The Lizard – among the first in the UK to benefit from new OpenRAN 4G technology. Vodafone says it has invested across the region to ensure its residents, businesses and visitors have access to the latest mobile technology and improved connectivity.
ConnectedUKVodafone UK
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Changan

BlackBerry and BiTECH to build Digital LCD Instrument Cluster For Changan’s UNI-K SUV

BlackBerry's QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS), has been adopted in a new digital LCD cluster jointly developed with BiTECH Automotive (Wuhu) Co. The digital instrument cluster is being installed in Changan Automobile's new SUV, the UNI-K, which has entered mass production, providing a personalized user experience for drivers while ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the SUV's critical systems.
AutomotiveChinaBlackBerry
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watchOS 8

watchOS 8 bringing new access, connectivity, and mindfulness features

Apple today previewed watchOS 8, bringing new features for users to stay healthy, active, and connected. Updates to the Wallet and Home apps extend Apple Watch as an increasingly useful tool for convenient access across the car and places users live, work, and visit. A reimagined Breathe app and new Tai Chi and Pilates workout types help users lead a fit and healthy life and support mental well-being, while a new Portraits watch face and enhancements to Messages and the Photos app make staying connected to loved ones even easier.
Devices and OSAppleSmartWatch
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BT EE

BT launching new business unit for UK small businesses and ‘Unbreakable’ Wifi

BT has launched a new business unit to serve the millions of UK firms which are either small by design or just starting up. Together with the launch of the UK’s first ‘unbreakable’ Wi-Fi for micro-businesses - which delivers guaranteed coverage across the workplace, full fibre speeds of up to 900Mbps and free tech expert support – the new unit will help the UK’s smallest firms to rebuild and get set for growth.
ConnectedUKBT Group
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BT Sport TV Streaming

BT TV Box Pro with 4K HDR, Dolby Atmos and up to 600 hours of recordings launches

BT has launched BT TV Box Pro, the TV platform’s most advanced set-top box. The sleek new box is designed to support the next generation of TV viewing, with the features including crystal clear 4K HDR viewing and Dolby Atmos offering a complete immersive experience. BT has also rolled out a new user interface to new and existing BT TV customers giving them more intuitive control.
UKTVBT Group
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Vodafone Curve Bike light and GPS tracker

Vodafone UK launches Curve Bike light & GPS tracker

Vodafone has launched the Curve Bike light & GPS tracker. With an ultrabright LED and three light modes that automatically brightens when braking, Curve Bike light & GPS tracker gives cyclists a safer ride no matter what time of day it is. The device combines intelligent lighting with GPS tracking and connection to Vodafone’s global network with a built-in Smart SIM providing assurance that the rider is safer and that the bike is secure.
UKVodafone UKConnected
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Huawei Watch 3

Huawei Launches HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series Powered by HarmonyOS 2

Huawei launched a range of smartphones, smart watches, and tablets powered by its new HarmonyOS 2 operating system earlier today, including the HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series. HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series features a curved glass screen and 316L stainless steel case, complete with a brand-new 3D rotating crown that senses different levels of pressure and provides haptic feedback in response to user input.
HuaweiSmartWatch
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Nokia

Nokia Self-Organizing Networks software to enhance BT network reliability

EE is deploying Nokia’s Self-Organizing Network (SON) software solution to enhance network reliability and service in its 4G and 5G networks, as part of a new vendor deal. With Nokia SON, EE can overcome network complexity to create flexible solutions that better manage its network, as well as automating operations across diverse eco-systems to minimize and address network issues more cost-efficiently.
5GConnectedBT Group
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Ericsson

Ericsson launches Ericsson Private 5G

Ericsson has launched Ericsson Private 5G, offering secure and simple 4G LTE and 5G Standalone (SA) connectivity primarily targeting – but not limited to – manufacturing, mining and process industry, offshore and power utilities, as well as ports and airports.
5GConnected
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Nokia

Nokia’s to deliver automated network and security operations for T-Mobile Netherlands

Nokia has been selected by T-Mobile Netherlands to accelerate digital transformation while securing its fixed and mobile networks against cyber threats. The partnership will provide the operator with a wide range of managed services including automated network and security operations, as well as a service-centric optical network over the course of the five-year rollout.
Connected
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Emergency Alerts East Suffolk

UK Government to launch a UK Emergency Alerts warning service

The UK Government plans to launch a UK Emergency Alerts warning service. Ahead of introduction a series of public trials will take place, with the first in East Suffolk on the 25th May 2021 where residents will receive a test alert message. Should the tests prove successful the capability will be made available for use across the whole of the UK later this year.
NewsConnectedUK
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Broadband

Nokia and Allo to deploy gigabit fibre network in Malaysia

Nokia has been chosen by Allo, an Information and Communications Technology service provider in Malaysia, to deploy a gigabit fibre network in the states of Melaka, Johor, Negeri Sembilan and East Coast of Malaysia. The deployment, which includes Nokia’s Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) solution and Access Management System, will be completed by end of Q2 2021 covering nearly 150,000 homepasses.
Connected
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VOXI

VOXI adds TikTok to its Endless Video Plans

VOXI has added video-sharing and entertainment platform TikTok to its Endless Video plans, meaning new and existing customers can now get their hands on unlimited data to stream TikTok, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, My5, TVPlayer and UKTV Play – from just £15 a month.
ConnectedUKVodafone UK
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Vodafone

Vodafone and Wix launch new ‘business boosting’ packages

Vodafone has launched new business boosting packages featuring tools powered by website creation platform Wix. The business boosting packages will enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create or improve their online presence, reach new customers, and overcome the challenges they face to achieving growth online.
ConnectedUKVodafone UK
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Connected

BT increases and accelerates FTTP target to 25m

BT pledged today to increase its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) target from 20 million to 25 million by December 2026. In the last year Openreach passed a record 2m premises with FTTP and now believes that it has the capability to reach around 4m premises a year.
ConnectedUKBT Group
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Play

Samsung and Play to conduct 4G and 5G trials in Poland

Samsung is to conduct 4G and 5G trials in Warsaw, Poland, with mobile operator, Play. The companies will verify the capability and performance of Samsung’s 4G and 5G network solutions in the trial, which will be carried out in Play’s labs and commercial networks, beginning in the current quarter of this year.
Samsung5GConnected
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BT Group

BT Cloud Voice with Cisco Webex enhances team collaboration for small businesses

BT is working with Cisco to introduce new collaboration tools aimed at helping UK firms to bounce back stronger following the Covid-19 pandemic. With hybrid working models becoming the norm and 87% of employees in the UK hoping for a choice in working location as restrictions ease, BT is making hybrid working easier and more productive for small businesses by adding Cisco Webex to its Cloud Voice solution.
ConnectedUKBT Group
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centraleyes

Centraleyes partners with UK-based ITC Secure

ITC Secure will be offering the Centraleyes integrated risk management platform as an integral part of its existing portfolio of cyber security solutions. The partnership with ITC Secure is another huge step forward in Centraleyes’s strategic expansion goals, plan
Connected
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Shared Rural Network

EE brings 4G to more of the Highlands

Partnering with the Scottish Government, the Home Office and WHP Telecoms, EE has connected locations, including Tarskavaig (Skye) and Glencripesdale to its high-speed 4G network, with Killilan (Lochalsh) and Polbain (Wester Ross) due to be connected this summer.
EEConnectedUK
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Broadband

BT Home Essentials, a new broadband social tariff coming in June

BT is to launch BT Home Essentials in June, a new social tariff connecting those on low income with affordable fibre broadband and calls. The new low cost tariff comes as BT research reveals that since the pandemic, almost three quarters (74%) of Brits would not find it easy to improve their financial situation without connectivity.
ConnectedUKBT Group
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5G

EE Launches new Spectrum into 5G Network

BT’s mobile business, EE, has finalised new 5G spectrum holdings following the conclusion of the second, assignment stage of Ofcom’s auction and will start to launch some of the new spectrum into the 5G network immediately. EE won 80MHz overall of the 700MHz and 3.6GHz bands that were on offer in the auction.
EE5GConnectedUK
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Samsung TV Plus

Samsung TV Plus launches in UK and Germany

Samsung TV Plus has launched, in the Galaxy Store and Google Play Store for select Galaxy smartphones, offering select Galaxy users instant access to 94 free channels with no need for any payments, sign-ups, subscriptions or additional devices.
AppsSamsungGermanyUKTV
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Connected

Virgin Media clocks up 2.2Gbps broadband speeds

Virgin Media has successfully delivered next-generation 2.2Gbps broadband speeds to homes in Southampton and Manchester in real-world trials. The multi-gigabit speeds – around 40 times faster than the local average broadband speeds.
ConnectedUK
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6G Dial

Huawei planning to launch 6G in 2030

Huawei's chairman Xu Zhijun has used the company's global analyst conference in Shenzen to announce it intends to launch 6G equipment and subsequent networks in 2030. A white paper is also planned in which Huawei will tell the industry what 6G is.
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NVIDIA Unveils NVIDIA DRIVE Atlan

NVIDIA has revealed its next-generation AI-enabled processor for autonomous vehicles, NVIDIA DRIVE™ Atlan, which will deliver more than 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) and targets automakers’ 2025 models.
Automotive
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Volvo

Volvo Cars to use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin Across Fleet

Volvo Cars will use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to power the autonomous driving computer in its next-generation cars, deepening the companies’ collaboration to even more software-defined model line-ups, beginning with the next-generation XC90, set to debut next year.
Automotive
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Nokia Store

Nokia launches cloud charging solution on AWS for CSPs

Nokia has deployed its cloud-native convergent charging solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate communications service providers (CSPs) migration of business-critical, high frequency charging applications to the public cloud, and to deliver the benefits of the cloud for 5G.
Connected
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Samsung TV Plus

Samsung TV Plus Expands to 23 Countries

Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s free Smart TV video service, which delivers instant access to news, sports, entertainment and more, has now expanded to 10 additional countries globally – bringing the total of countries the free Smart TV video service is available in up to 23.
SamsungTV
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cybersecurity

UK Cyber Security Council Begins Work

The UK Cyber Security Council today announced that the Formation Project to create the Council has completed, allowing the Government-mandated Council to officially become an independent entity, fully and only accountable to its Trustees.
ConnectedUK
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eSIM PAYG

Global eSIM Store Launches O2 eSIM in UK

Global eSIM Store eSIM.net has launched the first local UK eSIM service in the form of the O2 UK eSIM. The new service is focused on offering UK residents lower tariffs on the O2 network and all the benefits of eSIM technology while at home in the United Kingdom.
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