EE SWITCHES ON 5G IN 35 MORE UK TOWNS AND CITIES

Now you can surf the internet as fast as surfing in the sea thanks to EE, part of BT’s consumer business unit, which has added outdoor 5G coverage to some of the UK’s most popular tourist and coastal destinations.

160 UK towns and cities are able to offer the fast speeds offered by the company’s 5G network.

5G is one of the fastest technologies currently available in the world. In May 2019 EE launched the first 5G service covering major UK cities

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Immersive Labs has secured Series C investment of around £53 million in a round led by Insight Partners.

James Hadley, Immersive Labs CEO and Founder, said: “Not so long ago, to most organsations, cyber skills were limited to technical teams remediating laptops and changing passwords.

such as Birmingham and Cardiff.

Locations across the region which now have 5G include Aylesbury, Stratfordupon-Avon, Swindon and Worcester.

EE only announces a new 5G location when there are meaningful levels of 5G coverage there. At this stage in the company’s 5G rollout, the criteria which needs to be met incudes a minimum population of 10,000 people, 5G coverage to at least a third of that population, and coverage in the town or city centre.

Sales soar for firms in booming UK safety tech sector

British tech companies dedicated to making the internet a safer place have seen revenues soar in the last year.

An independent report, The UK Safety Tech Sector: 2021 Analysis, commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), revealed the safety technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of the UK’s tech industry, with a 40 per cent increase in revenues in the past year – reaching £314 million – and a 30 per cent increase in jobs.

And more than half (58 per cent) of all safety tech jobs are based outside London.

Safety Tech companies develop technologies which help to make online experiences safer, and protect users from harmful content, contact or conduct.

The research reveals that while Edinburgh, Leeds and London are established safety tech hotspots, Oxford and Bristol are also seeing growing activity.

2020 was also an important year for investment in safety tech firms. Readingbased SafeToNet (safeguarding technology that detects and filters risk in real-time) raised more than £2.5 million through a crowdfunding campaign with Seedrs.

In March, SafeToNet announced that it had bought 77 mobile phone shops across Germany, which will be branded as SafeToNet Family Stores. These stores will sell contracts from Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica. Smartphones and tablets made by Samsung, Nokia, Apple and others will include SafeToNet online safety software so that mobile devices and tablets are ‘Safe Out of the Box’ and children are protected online.

“Cyber knowledge, skills and capabilities are now in huge demand across entire organisations.”

The company, which helps improve cybersecurity skills across technical and non-technical teams, is experiencing more than 100 per cent year-on-year growth.

Oxford-based Pimloc (a deep learning platform enables private businesses and public organisations to protect sensitive or personal data in video) raised a £1.4 million seed investment in 2020.

Overall, the total external investment raised by the sector in 2020 reached £39 million across 22 deals.