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Bouygues To Dismantle 3,000 Huawei Antennas in France by 2028

French telecom operator Bouygues Telecom is to dismantle 3,000 Huawei-made mobile antennas in France’s highly populated areas by 2028, the latest blow to the Chinese tech giant which is the target of countries labelling its 5G equipment as a potential national security threat.

Huawei Connected

·5 years ago

Virgin Media launching Broadband plan for Universal Credit claimants

Virgin Media is to launch a broadband-only plan, called “Virgin Media Essential Broadband”, which will be available to those receiving Universal Credit and will come with a speed of 15 Mbps and a fixed price of £15 per month, with no fixed-term contract length and no price changes while benefit payments are being received.

Connected UK

·5 years ago

Vodafone Gigafast Full Fibre Broadband comes to Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool

Vodafone UK has launched its Gigafast Full Fibre Broadband service to 360,000 homes and businesses across Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool, bringing residents and small businesses access to speeds of up to 900 Mbps.

Connected UK Vodafone UK

·5 years ago

BlackBerry IPU-03 is an autonomous driving domain controller

BlackBerry has announced the IPU-03, an autonomous driving domain controller developed in conjunction with Desay SV Automotive, has been officially mass produced in the Xpeng P7, a super-long range, high-performance and fast-charging intelligent EV sports sedan from Xpeng Motors, one of China's leading electric vehicle and technology companies.

BlackBerry Automotive China

·5 years ago

Huawei 5G Passes GSMA’s Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme

Huawei's 5G wireless and core network equipment (5G RAN gNodeB, 5G Core UDG,UDM,UNC,UPCF) and LTE eNodeB has passed the GSMA’s Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS). GSMA NESAS boosts the industry's confidence in telecom network equipment, making it a practical choice for the industry and an important consideration for all regional markets, to jointly promote the development of more aligned mobile communications market.

Huawei 5G Connected

·5 years ago

Huawei and China Telecom Shenzhen Launch World’s First 5G “Super Uplink + Downlink CA” Pilot Site

Huawei and China Telecom Shenzhen have jointly launched the world's first pilot site that binds 5G Super Uplink and downlink carrier aggregation (CA). This pilot innovatively leverages Super Uplink to maximise uplink coverage and experience, as well as fully utilises downlink dual-carrier CA to deliver optimal user experience.

China Huawei 5G Connected

·5 years ago

Vodafone adds laptop security for UK businesses

Vodafone has expanded its business security services to include protection for business customers’ laptops and desktops. Trend Micro’s ‘Worry-Free’ service is a new detection service to protect businesses and their employees from online security threats such as ransomware, out-of-date applications, and phishing attacks on desktops and laptops.

UK Vodafone UK Connected

·5 years ago

Vodafone launches ‘Work and Play’, offering users a second broadband line

Vodafone has launched ‘Work and Play’, a new service giving anyone the opportunity to purchase a second broadband line dedicated entirely to home working, including customers new to Vodafone. This frees up people’s existing broadband to serve everything else, making family bandwidth battles a thing of the past.

Connected UK Vodafone UK

·5 years ago

Huawei unveils three in-vehicle operating systems

At the 2020 China Auto Forum Huawei unveiled three car OS systems: the Harmony cabin operating system HOS, the intelligent driving operating system AOS and the intelligent vehicle control operating system VOS. The company also unveiled a cross-domain integrated software architecture dubbed Vehicle Stack.

Devices and OS Huawei Automotive

·5 years ago

Virgin Media connects 2,500 homes in Leasowe to ultrafast broadband

Virgin Media has connected 2,500 homes in Leasowe, Wirral, to its ultrafast broadband network, which will bring the UK’s fastest widely available speeds to the area.

Connected UK

·5 years ago

EE completes 500th new site for Emergency Services Network

EE has completed the build of its 500th new site for the Emergency Services Network (ESN), located in Glencoe Scotland.

EE Connected UK

·5 years ago

Vodafone switches on First Rural OpenRAN site

A rural OpenRAN site is the first of around 100 rural OpenRAN sites that Vodafone will deploy in the UK with the vRAN supplier Mavenir. The first site is connecting Vodafone customers around the Royal Welsh Showground in Powys, Wales.

UK Vodafone UK Connected

·5 years ago

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