Vodafone UK has boosted the capacity of its internal network at the temporary NHSScotland Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow’s Scottish Events Campus (SEC), which opened in April to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.
Openreach has selected ADTRAN’s SDX Series of OLTs and Mosaic Cloud Platform to help it achieve its ambition of making gigabit and multi-gigabit services available to 20 million homes by the mid-to-late 2020s with its Full Fibre network.
Ofcom’s Home Broadband Performance Report has revealed how broadband speeds changed before and after the COVID-19 lockdown measures came in – when there was a surge in broadband use.
Opensignal’s latest analysis showcases that 5G offers faster average download speeds than Wifi in seven out of eight leading 5G countries.
Earlier last week it was reported that Billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media and a 10% stake in ITV, was in talks with Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica to combine their UK assets in a joint venture.
Vodafone UK is giving six months of free unlimited data to NHS workers, care workers and vulnerable customers.
IMImobile’s cloud contact centre software is enabling public sector and healthcare organisations shift online in reaction to COVID-19.
Three UK has launched zero-rating on NHS video consultations provided by Attend Anywhere, so that customers can attend virtual outpatient appointments without eating into their data allowance.
Schools struggling with staff working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, while their IT systems remain on site, are being offered a free lifeline from a UK IT company.
The UK Government has announced the infrastructure for a contract tracing app has been put in place, and has been undergoing testing with a view to rolling it out on a large scale "within weeks".
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, has today launched a ‘Cyber Aware’ campaign promoting behaviours to mitigate threats and created a scam reporting service for people to flag suspicious emails for the NCSC to assess and take down malicious content.
Healthcare IT security company Imprivita, is providing free-of-charge licences to the UK NHS and other healthcare organisations in Europe and around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic
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