The plan for delivering the Emergency Services Network (ESN) programme in the UK is still not “sufficiently robust”, according to a damning new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

Initial market growth will not take away from low-power wide area network (LPWAN) sector, but competition will become hostile in the later part of the forecast period.



This new virtual core is a crucial phase in Three’s £2 billion 5G infrastructure investment programme and offers greater security and flexibility, and is cheaper to run.

German operator falls foul of network neutrality and roaming rules according to the Higher Administrative Court for the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

British operator takes another step into fixed broadband territory and the convergence of connectivity technologies.

The Swiss operator and Elisa (Finland) announce roaming, and Swisscom with South Korea’s SK Telecom.

Despite this, the UK government should exclude Huawei from the core of UK telecoms networks, according to a new report from the UK Science and Technology Select Committee.

Swisscom says that a software bug is to blame for the deletion of data belonging to hundreds of users of its myCloud service.

Deutsche Telekom and Software AG have signed an IoT made in Germany strategic partnership to expand their presence across the US, Germany and European markets.

The operator claims new digital InLink hubs, which replaced phone boxes, will help give a better picture of air quality issues.

Attendees at the live demo also experienced eight-channel HD video streaming, virtual reality (VR) video and drone services.

The operators plan to have the agreement in place by the end of the year and say the shared network will enable them to improve service quality and indoor coverage.

The country’s biggest operator has been put up for sale after a court ruling appeared to draw a line under a long-standing dispute about the company’s ownership.

Cisco Systems is to buy optical networking firm Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion to help it make inroads into the cloud market.