Cellhire supports BBC General Election coverage with IoT

12 July 2024

Cellhire played a major role in the BBC’s coverage of the 2024 UK General Election. The company deployed its ‘Count Cam’ packages powered with Cellhire’s IoT connectivity solution to 369 vote-counting locations across the UK to allow the BBC to live-stream footage as the election results unfolded during the night of July 4-5.

As votes were tallied and results announced, thanks to Cellhire the BBC was able to provide continuous coverage throughout the night, employing a combination of reporters, crews, freelancers and state-of-the-art streaming solutions.

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Vodafone UK slices network at Glastonbury to support vendors

10 July 2024

Vodafone UK conducted another trial of Network Slicing technology on their latest 5G Standalone (SA) powered mobile broadband network at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, which despite heavy network load was able to dedicate a ‘slice’ of capacity to help drink vendors speed up card transactions.

Most existing 5G networks in the UK still have some dependencies on 4G, which slow them down and are known as Non-Standalone (NSA). 

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Systal to support Coca-Cola with network transformation

05 July 2024

Systal Technology Solutions has announced a multi-year partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), one of the world’s leading consumer goods companies, to drive their network transformation journey across Europe.

Under the agreement, Systal will support more than 6,500 devices in 300 locations across 11 European countries.

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The impact of AI on security: advocacy vs apprehension in a time of uncertainty

04 July 2024

Brian Martin, head of product development, innovation and strategy, Integrity360

The debate over whether AI is friend or foe continues to rumble away in cybersecurity spheres, further fuelled by the recent rise of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.

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