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timrodgers
Unfortunately , the past BT has been a Bloated Telecom...as everyone knows.....but ...times are changing.. I should think Crozier will play a part to further move the change ...more streamlined, less bloated, more innovation focused
Easy to announce partnerships and make big claims, BT have been doing this for the last few decades but fail miserably at monetisation . https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-lifestyle/bt-futurologist-ai-entity-will-win-nobel-by-2020/
what a great opportunity it would've been to demo
timrodgers
Even more things on the go
.....something even a miserable s*d like you might find interesting ....not betting on it though
https://newsroom.bt.com/uhb-and-bt-demonstrate-uks-first-remote-diagnostic-procedure-using-a-5g-connected-ambulance/
https://newsroom.bt.com/bt-sport-and-samsung-deliver-first-ever-live-8k-sports-broadcast-in-the-uk/
Pandemic and working from home could've really been used better to sell the benefits of 5G, imagine BT taking the lead on transforming working from home, supplying some of its staff with 5G headsets and demoing them having crystal clear lag free video conferencing. One of the links you've posted talks about volumetric rendering, I can see that technology being used to create more natural 3D backgrounds for video calls as well, what a great opportunity it would've been to demo
Plenty going on with BT and 5G
https://newsroom.bt.com/uks-first-5g-immersive-classroom-brings-richer-learning-experience-to-pupils/
https://newsroom.bt.com/how-5g-will-create-a-world-of-volumetric-video/
https://newsroom.bt.com/bt-and-university-of-warwick-to-accelerate-5g-innovation-for-regional-economic-recovery/
https://newsroom.bt.com/belfast-harbour-and-bt-to-build-the-uk-and-irelands-first-5g-private-network-for-ports/
https://newsroom.bt.com/bt-accelerates-the-next-phase-of-uks-first-live-5g-private-network-for-industry-40-and-smart-manufacturing/
When share prices drop during periods of little news between quarterly updates ....there is this tendency to believe that nothing is going on behind the scenes ....nothing could be further from the truth
A lot is going on..... just need to be patient until it all comes together IMO
Bt is the business great service super fast network why is the sp not going up ?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mobile-phone-fans-left-wondering-what-is-the-point-of-5g-f363vtlsv
Apologies, I 4got the link.
I have to admit, as I receive broadband of circa 40meg, if the full fibre became available in my area and it cost another £10-£15 pm more, I’d probably decline, what I have is fine. But it’s not fine for the rest of the country. OFCOM and government ( through incentives and subsidies) should have decreed, that if you (alt nets, BT etc) roll out full fibre you start where it’s needed first, full stop. So rural, small towns, Cities and then larger towns.
“There are lots of people who understand the concept of 5G but haven’t quite yet figured out how it would benefit their business,” he said. “There are certain use cases that are being trialled and there are lots of companies in the market at the moment, but the models around how best you commercially make money from it are still being tested.”
He added: “All of that stuff is understood by some participants in the industrial sector, but at the moment it is not scaling up at the rate which we’d all like. That’s why we’re all . . . working with industry to deploy best in-use cases so we can demonstrate the benefits to industry and drive take-up.”
It’s not just the adoption that has been slow. The rollout of 5G infrastructure — the kit fitted to phone masts and to cables underground — has also been sluggish.
That is partly a result of the government’s decision to remove Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant, from the 5G network amid concerns about national security. Operators have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to strip out Huawei’s kit and replace it with equipment from rival vendors such as Nokia and Ericsson — some of which they already use.
This year, BT received the green light it wanted from Ofcom to make a decent return on its planned £12 billion investment in connecting 20 million homes in the UK to full-fibre broadband. Chief executive Philip Jansen promised to “build like fury” following the regulator’s decision. Now, mobile operators including BT want a similar outcome for 5G to ensure that their investment does not go to waste. Ofcom launched a review of the mobile market this year and has now asked operators for information ahead of a consultation.
Emma Reynolds, regulatory affairs director at Vodafone UK, called for reviews of spectrum and annual licence fees — which cost the industry about £300 million a year — as well as other areas such as access to phone masts and other infrastructure. BT’s Gupta agreed.
Reynolds said: “What they [Ofcom] have done with BT — giving them a ‘fair bet’ so they can invest, because they can be confident they are going to get returns ... we need to feel confident that if we make the investment we need in a full 5G rollout, we’ll get the payback. We were a bit late on fibre [in Britain] if you compare us to continental Europe and elsewhere — we don’t want to make the same mistake with 5G. So let’s get ahead of that and make sure we have the regulatory and policy environment that means we can have a leadership position in the UK.”
What’s the point of 5G?
Consumers
? Faster speeds for video streaming
? Releases capacity on existing 4G network
? Live video gaming
? Driverless cars
Business
? Automated factories
? Manage energy supply in the grid
? More energy efficient
? Real-time monitoring of supply chain and logistics
People can get on to the network by upgrading to a 5G-compatible device — either when their current handset is due for an upgrade or if they decide they want to switch.
So far, most cities and big towns in the UK have 5G, but normally not everywhere in those areas is covered. Rural locations are likely to get the technology last.
Some believe that 5G has spluttered upon launch because it lacks the revolutionary appeal of previous launches. In 2001, the introduction of 3G offered people internet on their phones for the first time. When 4G started in the UK in 2012, it allowed users to stream videos and music without constant pauses.
With 5G, consumers are unsure what the benefits are — and so it is proving a hard sell. Britain was behind the rest of Europe in launching 4G. This meant that when it finally arrived in the UK, there were already plenty of applications that supported it. By contrast, Britain is one of the leaders in the rollout of 5G, yet the applications for consumers may not emerge for several years. Mobile firms, though, are confident that people will eventually sign up to 5G, mostly because new phones typically come with contracts giving them access to it automatically, whether they want it or not.
Richard Bennett, head of industry solutions and strategy at cloud computing giant VMware, said: “It isn’t about someone wanting to move to 5G — that’s not what’s really driving the adoption of the technology, it’s actually someone going to a new phone which natively supports 5G. The benefit to society [of 5G] will only really occur in five years.”
But the slow start is hurting the four mobile operators: EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three (others, such as Sky Mobile and TalkTalk, piggyback on their networks). Deloitte’s Lee said that shifting people on to 5G was more profitable for the operators.
Earlier this year, the 5G spectrum auction staged by industry regulator Ofcom set operators back £1.4 billion, but added an extra 18 per cent of capacity to the airwaves. Having more people switch to 5G means more phone users can go online in the same place without it crashing the network.
But while consumers are lucrative, the big 5G prize for mobile operators comes in the form of industrial customers eyeing cost savings and efficiencies from automation. The ability to connect different machines at factories in real time enables them to perform tasks in tandem. It has been described as enabling the fourth industrial revolution. 5G is tipped to power smart cities, where traffic can be controlled on the internet using data sent over 5G from cars, traffic lights and other sensors on roads and buildings. In the future, driverless cars are expected to communicate over 5G to avoid crashing into one another.
Yet demand from industrial customers has also been lower than expected, according to Ashish Gupta, chief operating officer of BT Enterprise.
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The all-singing, all-dancing 5G mobile network is supposed to usher in a brave new world, writes Jamie Nimmo, but phone addicts just aren’t answering the call.
The rapper Stormzy bounced around a floating stage on the River Thames by Tower Bridge, singing one of his most popular tunes to a spectacular light and firework show. The no-expense-spared EE event in May 2019 was live-streamed around the world to show off the advantage of 5G, the latest generation of mobile internet, where low latency means no buffering and real-time viewing with no lag. Viewers at a different venue watched on their virtual reality headsets as the performance was streamed instantly over 5G.
But two and a half years on, there are signs that 5G — which is up to 100 times faster than 4G, the previous mobile network — is sinking rather than swimming.
A survey by the professional services firm Deloitte has laid bare the problem. Despite launching to much fanfare in 2019 (Vodafone signed up Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton as its 5G ambassador a month after EE’s launch), Deloitte found that only about 9 per cent of the near-4,000 UK consumers it surveyed had 5G. Some 57 per cent of the respondents said they did not know enough about 5G, while more than half said they could not tell the difference between 4G and 5G, which can download a feature film in as little as four seconds.
When they were asked what the most important feature was when choosing a smartphone, battery life was the biggest draw. Meanwhile, 5G capabilities came near the bottom of the list, below ease of use, storage capacity, camera, screen size and quality, brand, data-privacy features, processor speed and a phone’s expected lifespan. Only water resistance and use of recycled materials were less popular features than 5G.
“At the moment, if you were to ask me what the applications of 5G are, I cannot name a single consumer one,” said Paul Lee, Deloitte’s head of research for technology, media and telecoms.
The spotlight in recent months has been on the telecoms industry’s broadband battles and the fight to roll out full-fibre to the whole country — and on economically attractive terms. It coincided with Boris Johnson’s ambitious plan to connect every home in Britain to ultra-fast broadband by 2025, though that goal has been diluted and pushed back.
The main selling points of 5G are its capabilities with video calls and streaming. For example, two gamers playing over the 5G mobile network can play in real time together. Currently with 4G, the split-second delay makes this difficult or impossible. BT, which owns the mobile network EE, said it currently has about 1.5 million customers using 5G, with another 2.5 million “5G ready” — meaning customers who have either a handset or SIM card that can connect to the network. BT’s plan is to have a 5G network covering 90 per cent of the UK’s landmass by 2028.
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