UK incubator Tech Nation to close as grant is handed to Barclays
Government-backed start-up incubator Tech Nation has been forced to shut down after its funding was withdrawn.
Government-backed start-up incubator Tech Nation has been forced to shut down after its funding was withdrawn.
House builders in England will have to ensure that new properties are equipped with the means to access ultrafast Internet services.
The UK government is ploughing cash into three universities and the UK Telecoms Lab announced in October in an effort to accelerate progress in 6G and 5G R&D.
The UK government is asking the app industry to sign up to a new voluntary code of practice which is supposed to bolster security and privacy requirements on all apps and app stores available in the UK.
A new ‘national institution’ could be set up as part of plans to boost the UK’s semiconductor industry.
The new UK Telecommunications Lab is a research facility intended to bring together operators, suppliers and academics to brainstorm and testbed ideas related to mobile networks.
The DCMS has commissioned a report that found 7 in 10 adults want social media firms to do more to tackle harmful content. What a surprise.
A cross party committee has has taken to Twitter to openly invite Elon Musk to appear before it and discuss the future of Twitter as he sees it.
The UK DCMS is waving a potential new ‘code of practice’ in front of tech firms to get their opinions on whether they should be held accountable to it.
UK Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries has written to BT, Virgin Media O2, KCom and others to ask them to ‘outline plans for promoting low-cost social tariffs’ for people on benefits.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport will hand out up to £10 million to whoever it picks to run a new R&D type unit called UKTIN, in order to promote innovation in UK telecoms.
5G RuralDorset – a programme led by Dorset Council and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport – has put out a video explaining some 5G use cases, and it doesn’t do a bad job of selling it.
Mobile operators in England will soon be able to increase the height and girth of many of their mobile masts without having to apply for planning permission.
The UK and Japan have announced their intention to work together more closely on solving telecoms supply chain issues and developing new technologies such as 6G and OpenRAN.
The DCMS wants to add two more things to its odious Online Safety Bill but, for once, these seem sensible and proportionate.
Things like streetlights are handy places to put mobile base stations but they can often be hard to access. The UK government is trying to change that.
The UK Online Safety bill is seeking to criminalise a whole new raft of online activity and force platforms to censor more.
The UK government has launched an initiative designed to speed up the adoption of OpenRAN as part of its quest to erase Huawei from the country’s mobile networks.
The UK government issued a press release detailing how great everything will be when the shared rural network is finished.
Proposed new UK legislation will require device makers to provide vital security information to consumers at the point of sale to help protect against cyber-attack.