BROWSING: BT

UK regulator confirms bidders for upcoming 5G spectrum auction

The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom officially announced the confirmed operators due to take part in the upcoming 5G spectrum auction. Ofcom said in December that BT Group's EE unit, Hutchison 3G UK, Telefonica UK and Vodafone had qualified to take part in the spectrum auction. Following...

BT builds 5G university-campus network to spur local research, enterprise, uni life

BT has installed a dedicated public 5G network at the University of Warwick in the UK in what it reckons is a first for the country. The new setup comprises a public 5G cell site on the university’s main campus. The campus covers an...

BT selects Ericsson as its 5G RAN provider

  BT has selected Ericsson as its 5G RAN provider in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and other major cities across the UK. Earlier this year, BT had selected the Swedish vendor to provide the company’s next-generation cloud-native dual-mode 5G Core. Once the deployment is completed, Ericsson...

BT signs smart port agreement with Belfast Harbour

  U.K. carrier BT and Belfast Harbour have signed a partnership to build a 5G ecosystem within the Port of Belfast. BT said that the partnership will deliver a series of 5G-led innovations to accelerate Belfast Harbour’s digital transformation. Under the terms of the partnership, BT will...

EE expands 5G to 12 new cities in the UK

  U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, announced it has switched on 5G technology in 12 new cities and towns across the country. The new areas covered by EE’s 5G network are Aberdeen, Aldershot, Barrhead, Blackpool, Castleford, Crawley, Mirfield, Oxford, Porthcawl, Shipley, Stafford and...

BT, Toshiba deploy unhackable quantum-secure fibre for Industry 4.0 data transfers

BT and Toshiba have deployed an unhackable six-kilometre length of quantum encrypted fibre optic cable for transfer of highly sensitive data between different industrial facilities. It is the first deployment in the UK of a quantum-secure point-to-point fibre network, for sharing encryption ‘keys’ between...

Nokia secures 5G RAN contract from UK carrier BT

  Nokia announced it has been selected by U.K. telco BT as its 5G RAN vendor, the Finnish company said in a release. As part of the agreement, which will make Nokia BT’s largest equipment provider, Nokia will provide equipment and services at BT radio sites...

Former BT boss to lead UK telco-equipment vendor task force

  The U.K. government announced that ex-BT CEO and former trade minister Ian Livingston is to chair a new task force to drive forward ongoing work to diversify the country's telecoms supply chain and reduce reliance on high-risk vendors. Later this year, the government will publish...

BT adds industrial AR to ‘Disneyland for industrialists’ at UK research HQ

UK telecoms firm BT has unveiled a new augmented reality (AR) demo as part of its ‘connected industry’ showcase at its Adastral Park science campus. The enhanced industrial IoT exhibit is one of nine functional digital-change showcases, arranged like a “Disneyland for industry decision...

BAE Systems, Nissan line up behind new £30m UK fund for industrial 5G

The UK government has awarded £30 million to six new 5G testbeds, as part of a wider £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to energise the UK industrial sector, and as it seeks to open up UK telecoms supply chains. The £30 million package from...

UK regulator to award additional 5G spectrum in January 2021

  U.K. regulator Ofcom announced plans to hold a 5G spectrum auction in January 2021, rejecting calls from some carriers which had suggested a direct allocation process rather than a traditional sale. In a statement, Ofcom stated the auction would cover the sale of 80 megahertz...

Private 5G is ‘only’ way for Industry 4.0 – first private 5G network goes live in UK with BT

UK telecoms provider BT has been appointed as the lead technology partner for the Worcestershire 5G Testbed (W5G), billed as the UK’s first live private 5G network. Swedish vendor Ericsson is supplying the 5G infrastructure for the smart manufacturing project, at the Worcester Bosch...

Kerlink teams up with Japanese distributor on LoRaWAN construction, agriculture apps

French IoT firm Kerlink has teamed up with Japanese medical devices and electronics distributor GISupply on a set of LoRaWAN-based IoT solutions for the smart health and farming sectors. The deal gives Kerlink a new market outlet, in Japan. Their “package of applications” bundles LoRaWAN-based...

BT switches on NB-IoT in UK to underpin country’s “largest” smart water pilot

UK water utility Yorkshire Water is in the final stages of an NB-IoT and AI pilot with BT to connect almost 4,000 acoustic, flow, pressure, and water quality monitors to manage leaks and interruptions in the water network in the north of England.  BT, which...

Polarization in 5G technology supply (Analyst Angle)

The U.K. government has banished Huawei’s 5G network kit. Supply must cease before 2021 and operators must rip out and replace all installed equipment by 2027. This is tightening of its previous policy —instigated as recently as January 2020—to exclude “high-risk vendors” from an...

France will not implement total ban on Huawei’s gear for 5G: Report

  The French government will not implement a total ban on the use of equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei in the rollout of 5G networks, but it will encourage local operators not to use such equipment, French paper Les Echos reported Guillaume Poupard, the head...

UK reviews Huawei’s role in 5G networks following recent sanctions

The U.K. government is likely to conclude that recent  sanctions against Huawei imposed by the Trump administration will make it almost impossible for U.K. carriers to use the vendor’s technology in 5G rollouts in the country., according to local newspaper The Guardian. The new review...

‘This is senseless,’ BT exec says as 5G conspiracists attack workers, towers

39 engineers from BT have been physically or verbally assaulted by 5G conspiracists There is no evidence to support the idea that there is a link to 5G technology and the COVID-19 virus, but that has not stopped a number of 5G conspiracists from burning,...

Vodafone urges London to award more 5G spectrum now due to COVID-19

U.K. carrier Vodafone has has written to the government calling for the planned auction of 5G spectrum to be dropped due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, local newspaper The Telegraph reported. The auction is expected to raise over £1 billion ($1.23 billion). The operator has written to...

5G service creation and monetization at the edge

Dell Technologies working with Orange Business Services, BT on edge enablement We’re still in the early stages of 5G deployments but there’s already a strong focus on distributing computing capabilities to the network edge, whether that edge is defined as a telco central office, enterprise...

UK regulator finalizes rules for upcoming 5G spectrum auction

  U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom has finalized rules for an upcoming auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz and 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz bands, with the aim of boosting the rollout of 5G technology across the country. The regulator said in a release that it...

Tesco Mobile launches 5G in 24 UK cities via O2’s network

  Tesco Mobile has officially launched its 5G network in 24 towns and cities across the U.K., using infrastructure from mobile operator O2. Some of the cities in which the company is already offering its 5G service includes Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool,...

Three UK to offer 5G services in 65 new cities by end-February

Three UK using 3.6 GHz for its 5G deployment U.K. mobile operator Three expects its 5G service to be available in 65 new locations across the country from the end of February, the telco said in a release. Some of the new cities in which...

BT to face higher costs due to Huawei’s restrictions in the UK: CEO

  U.K. telecom group BT said that the decision by the UK government to restrict the use of Huawei’s kit in the country’s 5G networks would have a cost of £500 million ($655 million) for the company over the next five years. “We are in the...