Scottish Power is trialling 5,000 smart electricity meters in homes as part of a test that will simulate the national smart meter roll-out by covering both heavily populated and rural areas. The 18-month trial will see smart meters ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Scottish Power, Smart Meter
The government has stepped up the process of equipping every home in the UK with smart energy meters by selecting the vendors to provide the kit, the data service and wide area communications, in addition to a smart meter governing ...
Tags: Smart Meter, Instruments
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that communications infrastructure provider Arqiva has won the government tender to deliver The Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), designed to improve mobile connectivity in rural ...
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Children's radio station Fun Kids has been shortlisted as Radio Station of the Year at two awards ceremonies. The station - which targets the tween audience alongside programmes for younger children - broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio in ...
The BBC has launched the BBC Technology Apprenticeship, working with UK universities and major broadcasters, "to address a critical skills shortage in the broadcast industry and help build the next generation of broadcast engineers", said ...
The government's vision to have every home in the UK equipped with smart energy meters is getting closer. Next year comes the mass rollout stage but in the meantime, three remaining bidders are battling it out for the right to provide the ...
Tags: Smart Meters, Electrical, Electronics, Meters
A major trial of smart metering technologies will be carried out in the Ipswich area to test long-range radio communications networks for connecting smart meters to energy providers. The trial is being carried out by Scottish Power, ...
It has been a long and somewhat slow journey to get here, but this week the UK finally saw the launch of a 4G network by mobile operator EE. Formed from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, EE has rolled out the faster broadband ...
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EE has confirmed the launch date for its 4G services as 30 October 2012,which will make it the first operator to offer the faster mobile connectivity in the UK. The announcement was made by the company's CEO,Olaf Swantee,who called the ...
Tags: UK, EE, 4G Services, 4G network, smartphones
The UK roll-out of 4G mobile services got a boost yesterday as Ofcom revealed the spectrum needed would be ready for use five months earlier than expected. The 800MHz and 2.6GHz frequencies were freed up by the digital TV switchover, but ...
Tags: mobile, 4G mobile services, Ofcom, UK
It was looking like it would be this time next year before mobile operators other than EE – formerly Everything Everywhere – were able to offer 4G. The merger between T-Mobile and Orange was the only brand to receive a ...
Tags: mobile operators, mobile industry, DCMS, EE
Arqiva will acquire Spectrum Interactive for a cash sum of £23.4m after the boards agreed the deal this week. The agreement will see Arqiva grow its already substantial base of communications infrastructure across the UK with the ...
Tags: Arqiva, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi service, Wi-Fi Range