Connected homes: The case for operator involvement

The connected home market is a confusion of products, proprietary interfaces and connectivity, so why would a network operator want to get involved? With every Tom, Dick and Harry from

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Focus on next-generation networks fuels Broadband Forum membership growth

Pioneering development work in 5G, CloudCO and network virtualisation was cited by Kevin Foster, Chairman of the Broadband Forum as one of the key reasons for its growth in 2017,

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5G: The development race for the next wireless generation is underway

5G is an ambitious technology that promises to do a multitude of things. While 2G, 3G and 4G were primarily focused on delivering just voice and data, 5G is destined

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Milton Keynes first city to get gigabit-speed fibre broadband from Vodafone and Cityfibre

Milton Keynes is set to become a hi-tech city, with news that it is the first community to benefit from Gigabit-capable full fibre broadband under the new Vodafone and CityFibre Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) programme. The

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The iDevices® Instinct™ embeds Amazon Alexa into the walls of homes

iDevices, the pre-eminent brand in the connected home industry, is integrating voice service capabilities directly into the walls of any room. When a standard light switch is replaced with the

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Open standards are key to increasing value from IoT value chain

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must adopt an open standards approach if they are to make the most of the revenue opportunities presented by Internet of Things (IoT) applications that use Low

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ETSI launches new group on Augmented Reality

ETSI has just launched a new Industry Specification Group called Augmented Reality Framework (ISG ARF). This new group aims to synchronise efforts and identify key use cases and scenarios for

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Ayla IoT platform adds phone-as-a-gateway capability for Bluetooth products

Ayla Networks, a global Internet of Things (IoT) platform for manufacturers, announced a new phone-as-a-gateway (PaaG) capability that will allow Bluetooth-enabled products

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How to monetise IoT from a CSP perspective

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has proven itself to be a lucrative opportunity for communication service providers (CSPs); to the point that it’s projected to contribute between

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Consumer distrust harms UK technological innovation

80% per cent of UK adults have major concerns over the safety of artificial intelligence (AI), finds SQS survey.

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