Rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB), Ericsson, O2 Telefónica, and Vantage Towers are collaborating to develop 5G coverage along train tracks in Germany. The project, called Gigabit Innovation Track (GINT), has received € 6.4 million funding from the German government to provide high-speed data and phone connections to train passengers from all rail operations. A test

Bare bones BT Group MVNO Plusnet Mobile is shutting down over the coming months with customers being offered a 30-day SIM for £8 a month to switch to EE. Pusnet’s fixed broadband customers are unaffected. Plusnet Mobile sold just SIM-only plans. It is closing down so that BT’s mobile offerings are all consolidated with EE.

BT Group will cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030 to reduce the current 130,000 number of employees to between 75,000 and 90,000. “The end of the 2020’s BT Group will reply on a much smaller workforce and a significantly reduced cost base. New BT Group will be a leaner business with a brighter future”,

Virgin Media O2 added 297,000 mobile connections during the first three months of the year. This includes connections from wholesale customers such as Sky Mobile.

Mobile network operators are urging newly-elected local councillors to put digital policy and connectivity strategies high on their agenda as they start their new terms. “We congratulate all newly and re-elected councillors in England’s local elections and are encouraging every councillor to actively support our ongoing campaign to fund and roll out local Digital Champions”

EE has expanded its mobile network to another 1,500 remote communities including Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The upgrades are part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN), a £1 billion joint initiative between mobile network operators and the UK Government to extend 4G connectivity to 95 per cent of the UK’s geography by the

MediaTek and Inmarsat have pledged to provide two-way satellite communications direct to smartphones, IoT devices and cars,

Vodafone UK has a new head of Small, Medium and Enterprise (SM&E) business sales. strategy. She is Claire Harris who has been promoted from the director of regional business and replaces Andrew Stevens who held the position since 2019 and is now Commercial Director, Business at Vodafone. She will be in charge of selling Vodafone’s

Top tier turnout for mobile industry’s biggest night out

Lenovo devices get customised SIMS for always-on IoT connections

The scheme is being handled through Euan Blair’s  skills training organisation

eSIM pioneer and global MVNO sold for £1 after Russian owners were hit by sanctions