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The SCTE Membership App is designed to bring all the various verticals the SCTE is known for into one place. Under the various missions of the SCTE itself – Information, Communication and Collaboration – users can access the latest technical specifications, register for events and access discount codes, catch up on webinars, training sessions, lectures and podcasts via our Spotify and YouTube channels as well as read a mobile-friendly version of the SCTE’s quarterly publication, Broadband...

Rome (Italy) /Gurugram (India), 12 September 2024 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, has signed an agreement with Airtel Business – the B2B arm of Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers – for additional capacity on a diversified low latency route between Asia and Europe. Airtel Business is India’s leading and most trusted provider of ICT services with strategically located submarine...

Many regions struggle with poor connectivity because operators cannot find economically-viable sites for their infrastructure in key locations. Site Finder solves this problem by proactively identifying areas with poor connectivity and capacity, and facilitating the use of shared sites. WM5G’s Site Finder service identifies locations with poor coverage, finding sites on public land that can be shared by multiple operators. By bringing in neutral host providers and tower companies, Site Finder...

A series of new private 5G networks is set to transform food and wine production across West Sussex, enabling local businesses with the tools and skills to thrive in the digital age. This transformative initiative will co-develop foundational 5G use cases, testing technologies like sensors, drones, and cameras that can revolutionise farming practices and promote sustainable food production.   The announcement marks the next phase of the ‘Growing Sussex 5G Innovation Region’, an ambitious...

Etten-Leur, Netherlands, 11 September ’24 – Future Connections, the independent telco solutions provider and software developer with in-depth experience in network performance assurance, RAN optimisation and automation and in telco managed services, today announced the expansion of its operations with the opening of new offices in Mexico.   The company has set up the new operations in the Americas to respond to a specific request from customers and partners alike. Its move to be closer to the...

Cannes, France, 11 September 2024 – SmartCIC Group, the work smarter company, has appointed Catherine Hemingray as its Chief Impact Officer to maintain and scale the group’s business culture as it enters its next phase of growth. Hemingray will lead initiatives at a group level that support its diversity, culture and values across its two businesses, SmartCIC Global Services and xvolv. Hemingray co-founded SmartCIC alongside Group CEO, Toby Forman in 2008. Over the last two years, she has led...

LINX Nairobi is a neutral, multi-site interconnection fabric providing peering services and more for networks wanting to improve performance, increase redundancy and lower latency. Launched back in November 2023, the new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) is going from strength to strength with a strong community of local Internet Service Providers (ISPs), global content networks and strategic partners already interconnected, and traffic starting to build. The team at LINX have spent a lot of time...

Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This work is part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme to enable hard-to-reach communities to get fast, reliable broadband. The contract is worth £18.8 million and will see Wessex Internet expanding its existing network in the Wylye Valley, going across the Salisbury Plain, connecting villages...

News  The Connected Britain Awards took place last night after a busy first day of the event. Hundreds joined us for an evening of networking and highly anticipated winner announcements. We had a record-breaking number of entries this year, reflecting Britain’s ever-growing and rapidly evolving digital economy.   Our shortlist this year represented a fantastic array of diverse organisations and individuals, with the traditional big players being joined by many organisations of varying sizes...

The Government’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has today announced that they’ve classed data centres – the buildings which store much of the networking and data generated in the UK – as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The move affords such sites greater protections, much like energy supply, water supply, transportation, health and telecoms (e.g. broadband and mobile). Sites or networks designated as CNI are those facilities, systems, sites, information,...