‘Not for telcos’ – why Industry 4.0 is a team sport, and why carriers have been benched

This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone and VoltDB – is available to download here. The biggest revelation…

Nigerian fintech Okra raises $3.5M backed by Accenture Ventures and Susa Ventures – TechCrunch

The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different…

Virgin Media hits 2.2Gbps speeds in latest broadband innovation trial

Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media has successfully completed a broadband innovation trial in which it achieved multi-gigabit speeds. In the trial, Virgin Media achieved speeds of 2,200Mbps in Manchester and Southampton—around 40 times faster than average local connections. Jeanie York, Virgin Media’s Chief Technology and Information Officer, said: “We invest more than £1 billion into our…