Martyn Warwick

4 weeks ago | telecomtv.com | Martyn Warwick

Under intense lobbying pressure from a wide range of companies (including telcos of course) to revamp the European Union’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and antitrust regulations, the European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation on its merger guidelines that will run until 3 September this year. That means the process will last for just four months, which is lightning speed for EU institutions that, more often than not, grind along at the stately rate of a geriatric tortoise.

1 month ago | telecomtv.com | Martyn Warwick

Toshiba Europe has announced the successful completion of coherent, secure quantum communications over an existing telecom network using standard fibre optic cable at normal room temperature and completely without the need for any highly complex cryogenic components. It’s a remarkable feat.

1 month ago | telecomtv.com | Martyn Warwick

World Quantum Day was 14 April but the quantum-related news just keeps flooding in from around the world. One such item is the announcement that three companies – Partisia, Squreroot8 Technologies and NuSpace – have signed an alliance agreement that could lead to quantum-secure satellite communication and “push the boundaries of secret communication”.

1 month ago | telecomtv.com | Martyn Warwick

The UK universities of Bristol and Cambridge have been collaborating on quantum-safe networking developments They have achieved live, quantum-secure transfer of encrypted medical data, secure remote access to a distributed datacentre and the world’s first long-distance quantum secured video call. It’s the first time a long-distance network using different quantum-secure technologies (including entanglement) has been successfully demonstrated.

2 months ago | telecomtv.com | Martyn Warwick

Do you remember Y2K – the dreaded Millennium Bug? It was the shorthand used to refer to the havoc that, it was claimed, would bring much of the world to a halt as the year 1999 ticked over into 2000 and global IT and communications systems would crash and bring civilization to its knees.