GSMA TAKES ON WEB GIANTS CYBERSECURITY ARM TEN

chain growth and generating the largest shareholder returns, whereas the internet access connectivity segment has generated relatively low and even single-digit returns on capital.” Shareholder returns have been “almost flat” for around six years, the GSMA says in a report prepared by consultants Kearney.

“Business leaders and policymakers need to fully appreciate the critical role of the internet infrastructure and work to ensure that market distortions, regulatory requirements or other factors are not limiting the ability of participants to make sufficient returns in all segments of the ecosystem and that all segments can make a fair return. This would sustain long-term investment, and not just those businesses that have the biggest platforms and scale,” the GSMA adds.

The UK’s most successful semiconductor company ARM has been conducting a seven year research project to create a more secure hardware architecture, receiving funding from UK Research and Innovation since 2019.

The project explores using special instructions: Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) devised by computer scientists at Cambridge and the nonprofit Californian research institute SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute) to protect and box off the computer memory that each process is using: a common area for exploits.

THE MOBILE INDUSTRY trade association GSMA has joined the call for European regulators to order services providers such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon to make additional direct payments to telecommunications companies. The GSMA echoes concerns from ETNO, the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association ,that “over the top” digital services such as YouTube and AWS reap the benefit from their own investment in infrastructure. This costs between €15 billion and €28 billion a year in the EU, or around ten times the amount OSPs (online service providers) have spent on infrastructure, according to ETNO. ETNO also argue that price negotiations are ‘asymetric’, since they cannot realistically refuse to carry their data to consumers. Both trade groups also cite cumbersome regulation and mandatory fees, such as spectrum costs.

“The online services and user interface segments are benefiting most from value-

ETNO called for Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon to make direct payments towards infrastructure projects, or to the telcos themselves. OTT providers such as Google and Netflix argue they have invested heavily in content delivery networks so largely carry the video traffic themselves, and lay lots of fibre cables. Some of the largest undersea fibre cables are being laid by Google and Facebook. Critics also compared the calls for “fair compensation” to shipping companies demanding an additional share based on the value of the goods packed in the containers

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Finally UK companies can get to test the results, in the form of access to a prototype circuit board, Morello, as part of the ICSF Digital Security by Design challenge. The first ten companies chosen include Trèsbian, an open source Linux based on the instruction set, Inventia, which is creating a billing backend using the Morello board for mobile operators, and Praeferre, which is creating a secure data broker for consumers.

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After receiving funding from the UK Government via its FRANC competition, Loughborough-based CommAgility has introduced a small cell reference platform for use in industrial private networks. Designed primarily for indoor use it marries chipsets from Dutch chip company NXP Semiconductors with CommAgility’s phyiscal layer software. The unit can be licensed or customised for the customer, and consists of four RF channels enabling a 4x4 MIMO downlink. It uses 16 ARM cores and NXP Semicondictors digital signal processing cores and wireless accelerators. CommAgility is part of the O-RAN Alliance which promotes open architectures and the new reference platform, targetted at the operator spectrum of N78 will support releases 16 and 17, the latest versions of the 5G standard.

CW, the lead delivery partner for UK5G, has a new CEO. Mark Rayner has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of CW (Cambridge Wireless), the community for research into mobile wireless, internet, semiconductor and software companies. Rayner joins from St John’s Innovation Centre, where he was Innovation and Finance Specialist and was previously COO of supercar company BAC (Briggs Automotive Company), and a director at Pall Mall Partners