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Communications

With the largest mobile market in Europe that has an annual value of £13.4 billion, the UK has 94 million subscribers. This means that companies are always looking for new technological opportunities.

Three of the world’s top-10 communication giants call the Thames Valley home, including Telefónica O2, Verizon and Vodafone (the first cellular network to launch in the country) – whose UK headquarters are respectively based in Slough, Reading and Newbury.

They are at the pinnacle of a dynamic cluster of businesses and are joined by other famous brands located in-region, including BT; Ericsson; Huawei; Hutchinson 3 Mobile; Siemens and Virgin Media. Overall estimates indicate that there are around 1,000 telecom-related businesses operating in the region.

All of which makes the Thames Valley home to one of the deepest clusters of telecom-based business in the UK

5G Step-Out Centre, Westcott Venture Park – Buckinghamshire

5G Step-Out Centre, Westcott, in Buckinghamshire – an open and accessible centre and development facility that provides convergent multi-access terrestrial and satellite radio network with international standards based network infrastructure.

5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey

5G Innovation Centre, located at the University of Surrey – the UK’s only research centre dedicated to the next generation of mobile communications.

Open IoT Lab, Vodafone-Huawei

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The internet of things and open innovation through industry collaboration is showcased at the Vodafone-Huawei “Open IoT Lab”, which works on the development of products and applications relating to Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT).