Okay, about those predictions I made last year… Each December I like to make a few predictions about the year ahead. But what is a prediction without a healthy dose of reality to cut it down to size? We don’t check such things often enough, we just tend to make more. I’ll get to that part soon enough, but first: how did I do last year? … [visit site to read more]
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In the final Keynote session of Day 1 at Connected Britain, panellists set out to answer a fundamental question: how do we make a positive, meaningful impact to our customers lives?
CEO UK&I of Nokia, Phil Siveter, set the stage with a presentation, highlighting the difficult economic landscape facing UK customers right now, as well as how the telecoms industry can play a starring role in alleviating these pressures and improving lives.
Next, he was joined on stage by speakers from BAI Communications, Fibrus, CityFibre, and STL, to discuss the unique challenges being faced across each section of the telecoms industry and how they can collaborate to deliver positive outcomes for their customers.
You can view the full keynote session from the link below.
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Presentation: Assumptions, Streaming and Positive Outcomes
Phil Siveter, CEO UK&I of Nokia
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Multinational information technology services and consulting company Cognizant has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Garuda Aerospace, an Indian drone start-up, to power its drones with advanced digital tools.
According to the Times of India, Cognizant says this will bring innovative solutions at scale for enterprises aiming to achieve greater agility, productivity and overall outcomes.
The two companies aim to bring a wide range of end-to-end drone-based management and monitoring offerings for businesses across a number of sectors, including agriculture, warehouse management, and energy and utilities.
This collaboration will also offer Cognizant associates across such company service lines as analytics and IoT the opportunity to work on purpose-driven drone projects.
Garuda Aerospace is focused on developing low-cost drone solutions to optimize industries through accurate data. It describes itself as a drone-as-a-software aggregator that designs impeccable drones for myriad human and industrial needs.
Indian press reports suggest that Garuda Aerospace boasts a fleet of 400 drones and a well-trained team of over 500 pilots in 26 cities across the country.
It’s also a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme beneficiary. We reported in April that a number of companies involved in manufacturing drones and drone components had been selected as initial beneficiaries of the PLI scheme to boost drone manufacturing in India. The list, expanded in July, included 23 beneficiaries, one of which was Garuda Aerospace.
This year has seen growing activity in the drone sector. For example, in March we reported that Asteria Aerospace, an India-based drone manufacturer and solution provider and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms Ltd, had launched an end-to-end drone operations platform.
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After a series of shorter sessions outlining some of the biggest challenges in the UK telecoms industry, the sextet of CXOs took to the stage to locked horns over these key roadblocks to building a more connected Britain.
Led by the Financial Times’ Telecoms, Media, and Technology Correspondent, Anna Gross, the debate covered everything from government policy to the investment landscape and competition concerns.
You can view the full panel discussion, as well as a special Keynote Address from Ofcom’s Networks & Communications Group Director, Lindsey Fussell, from the link below.
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Panellists
Ofcom Keynote Address
Lindsey Fussell, Networks & Communications Group Director at Ofcom
Keep your eyes peeled for our final Connected Britain Keynote video in which we’ll be sharing the final panel session from Day One, focussing on how to deliver truly positive outcomes for customers.
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The ongoing use of advanced technology to address potential mobile network customer satisfaction issues has been in the news in West Africa thanks to a partnership between operator MTN Benin and vendor Ericsson.
MTN Benin and Ericsson have partnered on the deployment of an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solution to address throughput challenges.
A network management system utilizing AI and ML was designed to address throughput degradation with the associated aim of providing improved customer satisfaction. This, says Ericsson, is building on the existing Ericsson Operation Engine which is designed to provide data-driven network operations including state-of-the-art AI-enabled cognitive software for network optimisation.
Ericsson explains that the ongoing rise of connected devices has led to an increase in spectrum requirements, putting a strain on certain sites. Ericsson devised its latest algorithms to act on highly accurate predictions of future lower throughput based on historical data. As a result, MTN Benin can maximize the use of available spectrum, in turn improving user satisfaction through a reliable network experience for MTN Benin’s subscribers.
Uche Ofodile, Chief Executive Officer of MTN Benin, says: “By utilizing Ericsson’s solution for designing creative network solutions we hope to provide a more individualized approach to network management, thereby boost customer satisfaction and successfully contribute to government ambition to be the leading provider of digital services in West Africa.”
The AI and ML solution is described as multi-faceted in its benefits, as it addresses throughput degradation in the most efficient manner by anticipating it, offering zero-touch corrective action, increasing throughput for service-level agreements (SLAs) and making the best use of network resources.
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