The initiative is called the Urban Connected Communities Project, and it is taking applications from large towns and cities to be part of it. Local authorities - or even combinations of authorities - with a telecoms coverage area of at least half a million people, can present their case to receive funding for 5G technology, VOIP systems and business systems, which would be a huge boost to the area.
The 2018 Mobile World Congress was held between February 26 and March 1 in Barcelona, and more than 100,000 people attended the event.
Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, has announced details of its proposal to spend £3 billion on intellectual property, services and technology supplied by the UK during the next five years.
Brands are very important when it comes to retaining the edge in business, and in a recent ranking of the top 500 brands in the world, it was found that technology firms were buoyant, but the position of telecoms providers was generally sinking.
The top five brands were all titans of the internet - Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Samsung. These had all demonstrated big leaps in the value of their brands over the past year. Amazon topped the list, with its brand being valued at $150 billion, which was a 42 per cent increase from the year before. Amazon is now the most valuable brand in the world.
Nokia’s latest earnings were better than expected, and the beleaguered telecoms company might even show a profit again by the year 2020.
The most recent results from Nokia were higher than anticipated, and the Finnish technology, mobile and office based telephony solutions company may be back on the path towards business health.
The government has turned down BT’s proposal for providing broadband services to consumers in unconnected or remote locations. A government spokesperson said that while there was gratitude for the telecoms provider’s plan, instead the decision makers had opted for a USO.
Conference calls are generally viewed as a useful telecoms tool for doing business, however, the time staff are wasting on these calls is leaching more than £26 billion from UK companies and business systems annually.
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