Alex Wright

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JCB Phone launches new range of rugged smartphones - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

JCB Phone has launched its latest lineup of rugged smartphones, the JCB Toughphone E10, M20, and P20. Engineered for professionals in construction, logistics, agriculture and emergency services, the new range provides durability, intelligent design and performance in tough conditions. The JCB Toughphone E10 is a slim, ultra-tough smartphone built for modern B2B deployments. Featuring Android 15, eSIM support, and multi-day battery life, it delivers strong enterprise capability.
Luware launches Virtual User - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

Luware has released Virtual User, a new feature designed improve contact centre customer interactions. By automating high-volume, repetitive tasks that fall outside the agent’s control, Luware’s latest solution helps reduce workload and job-related stress. This is critical in an industry where agents changing jobs ranges from 30 per cent to 50 per cent, and 87 per cent of agents report high or very high stress levels, according to industry research.
The Nature Restoration Fund: a change in approach to environmental conservation and development

1 week ago | russell-cooke.co.uk | Alex Ground |Alex Wright |Hebe Robinson

The UK housing crisis is driven by various factors including high demand, limited supply, and a history of government interventions to sustain prices. ‘Unblocking’ development is seen as a crucial step towards improving affordability and accessibility in the housing market.
INCA responds to Ofcom’s Telecoms Access Review consultation - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA), the representative body of the UK’s altnet sector, has urged Ofcom to ensure that the Telecoms Access Review (TAR) secures the future of infrastructure investment and fosters regulatory consistency. It has also called on the regulator to promote a fair and competitive landscape across all fixed telecoms markets, while providing clarity and justification on its regulatory objectives.
Virgin Media 02 makes significant upgrade to Glasgow mobile network - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

Virgin Media O2 has announced a significant upgrade to its mobile network in Glasgow, after completing work to improve signal and services in more than 3,000 postcodes in the last 12 months. The operator’s substantial investment to upgrade connectivity in Glasgow is already providing residents and businesses with access to fast and reliable mobile services.
Boom Collaboration partners with Aldous Systems - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

Boom Collaboration has partnered with Aldous Systems (Europe). Aldous Systems has become a new UK distribution partner as it fully enters the collaboration hardware market for the first time. The agreement will result in the Aylesbury-based business supplying Boom’s complete conferencing portfolio, spanning videobars, cameras, audio solutions and multiple connectivity options. Aldous Systems is a distributor of networking and audio/video equipment to the trade.
Highlight uses AI to predict traffic loads - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

Highlight has deployed its Highlight Labs innovation team to use AI-based machine learning algorithm to predict network traffic loads and trends. The Highlight Service Observability Platform can now identify when a network is likely to reach capacity in the future by analysing historical traffic data on network circuits such as broadband and Wi-Fi connections.
Zen Internet enters into strategic agreement with ITS - Comms Business

1 week ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

Zen Internet has entered into a strategic agreement with ITS. The collaboration will result in Zen using ITS’s extensive full fibre footprint to offer business-grade connectivity in new geographies, further enhancing Zen’s footprint and providing access to a broader range of business-grade connectivity solutions. Under the agreement, two new full fibre products — FibreLight and FibreBright — will be made available to Zen’s channel partners, as well as its business base.
Girls wrestling to become sanctioned high school sport in Nevada

2 weeks ago | bouldercityreview.com | Alex Wright

Girls wrestling will become an officially sanctioned high school sport in Nevada beginning with the 2026-27 school year. The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association voted unanimously to sanction the sport on the first day of the summer Board of Control meetings Tuesday in Reno. Currently, girls wrestling is offered as a division under the four classes of boys wrestling (5A, 4A, 3A and 2A), and the state meet is called the girls state invitational.
MLL Telecom accepted on to Everything ICT Framework - Comms Business

2 weeks ago | commsbusiness.co.uk | Alex Wright

Award aligns with company strategy to make procurement of networking solutions more accessible to MATs and schools. MLL Telecom has been accepted on to the DfE approved Everything ICT Framework. This is aligned with the company’s strategy of making the procurement of its networking solutions and services as easily and widely accessible as possible to multi academy trusts (MATs) and schools.