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August 8, 2022

Guest blog – Doug Parrant, Essex County Council: Driving forward plans to become a digital-first county

At Essex County Council, we recognise the benefits that digital can bring – from enabling economic growth and supporting people in getting the best start in life and ageing well, to helping to create a great place to live and work, and transforming our public services to achieve more with less.

August 1, 2022

How the UK’s Mobile Network Operators are helping customers through the Cost-Of-Living-Crisis

The four mobile network operators (BT/EE, Three, Virgin Media O2, and Vodafone have several measures put in place to support customers struggling with their bills due to the cost-of-living crisis, and to helping them remain connected.

July 28, 2022

Vodafone halfway to connecting One Million as part of its campaign to close the digital divide

As part of its long-term commitment to close the digital divide, Vodafone has reached the half million mark in its campaign, having donated 500,000 free connections to people across the UK.

July 27, 2022

#MeetTheChampions – John Steward, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

This week, we spoke to John Steward, Digital Infrastructure Lead for Greater Manchester Combined Authority, who reflects on the importance of digital connectivity for Greater Manchester and how Digital Champions at a city region level can support local authorities.

July 26, 2022

New government plans to fire up innovation in 5G and 6G as UK and South Korea launch telecoms technology partnership

Mobile phone networks of the future will have more choice of technologies and suppliers, in the government boost to delivering more innovative, secure and resilient telecoms networks.

July 20, 2022

Industry implemented strengthened customer protections result in substantial reduction in scam texts

The number of scam texts reaching customers has been substantiall reduced, according to new figures revealed by telecoms body, Mobile UK.

July 18, 2022

#Talking5G with Paul Cooper, VP of Engineering at Zeetta

Paul Cooper, VP of Engineering at Zeetta, a Bristol-based software company delivering a technology agnostic, self-management interface, talks to us about all things network slicing, from how it works, to how 5G will benefit future network slicing solutions.

July 14, 2022

Webinar review: The Case for Local Authority Digital Champions

As part of our campaign calling on the Government to fund Digital Champions for local authorities we brought together representatives from 26 local authorities to hear from a panel of existing Digital Champions to explain their roles and the impact they have had.

July 13, 2022

Webinar: Join Our Webinar This Afternoon As We Make The Case For Local Authority Digital Champions

Mobile UK and the LGA are today hosting a webinar making the case for Digital Champions. Click here to read more about the event and to sign up.

July 8, 2022

Shared Rural Network Update: SRN Publishes Contract Award Notices

The Contract Award Notice for the Managed Solution (MS) Framework and the Contract Award Notice for the Acquisition, Design and Build (ADB) Framework were published this week.

July 1, 2022

Three Research: Poor connectivity is costing British SMEs £18.77bn a year

Research, conducted by Three UK, YouGov and Development Economics, found that micro-businesses and small to medium sized firms are losing out on an average of one hour of working time per employee per week as staff battle with poor connectivity.

June 29, 2022

Vodafone Research: Reform needed for towns and smaller cities to benefit from full 5G

New research from Vodafone shows that more needs to be done to ensure the UK doesn’t miss out on the full economic benefits of 5G technology, with calculations suggesting that investment in 5G could be worth up to £7bn per year to the UK economy by 2030.

June 27, 2022

Telecoms Industry and Government Come Together to Agree on Commitments to Assist with the Cost-of-Living Crisis

Mobile network operators, alongside the wider telecoms industry, have come together and agreed with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster a set of commitments to support and protect vulnerable customers.

June 27, 2022

SRN Update: Bryn Jones Appointed SRN Director at Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd (DMSL)

Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd (DMSL) has appointed Bryn Jones as its new Shared Rural Network (SRN) Director. Bryn joins on 4 July 2022 to lead the DMSL team in delivering the publicly funded element of the programme.

June 23, 2022

Mobile UK Welcomes New Mobile Action Plan for Northern Ireland

Following calls from the industry for dedicated plans to identify barriers and measures to assist the deployment of essential mobile networks, we welcome the publication of a new Mobile Action Plan (MAP) for Northern Ireland.

June 17, 2022

Mobile Operators Launch 999 British Sign Language Emergency Video Relay Service

Mobile operators have launched access to the 999 BSL (British Sign Language) Emergency Video Relay Service.

June 16, 2022

SRN: Suppliers for Two Main Procurement Frameworks Appointed

The two initial procurement frameworks for the Shared Rural Network are now complete, and suppliers have been appointed. The Acquisition, Design and Build (ADB) and Managed Solution (MS) frameworks were published in 2021 by DMSL on behalf of the Mobile Network Operators (EE, O2, Three and Vodafone).

June 15, 2022

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