Armour Comms has been awarded a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2021. The award was made for outstanding short term growth in overseas sales over the last three years.
BT has connected 70 grassroots football clubs across the UK with broadband (Wi-Fi) and digital skills training, as clubs and their communities look to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
EE has extended its next day mobile device repair service to 17 stores in the West Midlands as it welcomes customers back to the English high street. The new service comes as research from EE found that 1 in 3 UK consumers cannot go more than a day without their phones.
BT’s mobile business, EE, has finalised new 5G spectrum holdings following the conclusion of the second, assignment stage of Ofcom’s auction and will start to launch some of the new spectrum into the 5G network immediately. EE won 80MHz overall of the 700MHz and 3.6GHz bands that were on offer in the auction.
Ofcom has confirmed that the 700 MHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz frequency bands have been awarded by auction. The frequency bands are likely to be used by mobile network operators to deliver a range of services, including 5G mobile.
O2 and Vodafone have agreed a deal to trade bands to create more efficient blocks of 5G spectrum, in a move that will enable improved coverage for customers.
Vodafone have sent a warning to all of its users after a scam text, claiming to be from delivery service DHL, has been targeting their customers. However, the text contains a link to malicious malware targeting Android devices.
The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for a 10-year collaboration on a weather and climate forecasting supercomputer. This new supercomputer – expected to be the world’s most advanced dedicated to weather and climate
Samsung TV Plus has launched, in the Galaxy Store and Google Play Store for select Galaxy smartphones, offering select Galaxy users instant access to 94 free channels with no need for any payments, sign-ups, subscriptions or additional devices.
Virgin Media is launching the Virgin Media Football Academy, a series of lesson plans, training videos and a special live lesson designed with experts from the famed Southampton FC Academy to help teachers and pupils bounce back into physical education
Vodafone is working with the social change charity, Good Things Foundation, to connect digitally excluded families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.
Samsung has expanded its Galaxy Upcycling programme with Galaxy Upcycling at Home. The initiative gives new life to older Galaxy smartphones by converting them into a variety of Smart Home devices through a simple software update
