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SCTE ® Presents: Rural broadband & The Last Mile Tuesday 18 March, One Great George Street, London SW1
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approaches from headline sponsor Corning and Telenco.
SCTE ® Presents is a year-round series of events that seeks to educate and inform the industry. Open to all, they take place in spring, summer, autumn and winter. These events are an expression of the SCTE’s commitment to education and knowledge dissemination, in line with our mission to raise and maintain standards across the cable, fibre and telecoms sectors. It is 80 years this year that the SCTE has been providing accreditation, training courses, publications, webinars, podcasts and networking opportunities to a close-knit community of engineers and technicians, reinventing itself as the technology continues to evolve. The lectures remain an important date in the calendar for SCTE members all over the country. There will be two sessions in the morning and three in the afternoon, with plenty of opportunities to network and a complementary lunch for attendees. The event is free of charge. The day concludes with a drinks reception from 5pm.
Our annual spring networking event will be taking place on Tuesday 18 March at One Great George Street in central London for the cable, fibre and telecoms industries. We’ve had such a fantastic take up this time we’ve had to move up a room at the venue, and at the time of writing there are only a few places left, so if you’re reading this now I do hope you get yourself a seat! Not to be missed! Rebranded SCTE ® Presents: Rural Broadband & The Last Mile and sponsored by Corning, Technetix and Abloy, the day seeks to highlight the achievements and unravel the challenges facing the broadband sector as it focuses its attention on remote and difficult to reach communities remaining in the UK. With 69% of homes now able to access full fibre broadband (Ofcom, Jan 2024) the innovation and determination required to reach the rest is largely in the hands of altnets, who will be making up the first two panels of the day. Featuring expert speakers from all over the UK Alncom (Northumberland), Wildanet (Cornwall), Ogi (Wales), B4RN (Cumbria), Cailem Consulting (Cambridgeshire) their combined expertise and individual experiences will be complemented by more technical
Later in the day, alternatives to fibre broadband and an exposé on 5G from the BBC will take place in a technical panel that showcases the innovative solutions available from Excelerate and Jet Connectivity, followed by a new segment, an open session that seeks to debate current issues with the entire audience in round-table format, where everyone can participate. Anthony Basham, President of the SCTE ® said, “Our recently rebranded event and the line up of speakers from all over the UK clearly demonstrates the clear appetite for rural broadband as a topic, and we are delighted to be providing a day of thought-provoking discussion, opportunities to network and hear about the most state-of-the-art connectivity solutions on the market.” Ian Cowser, FTTx Program Manager UK, Corning who will be sponsoring the day said, “Rural broadband is a passion of ours at Corning and we are delighted to be supporting such a valuable and important date in the calendar and thank the SCTE for the opportunity. It promises to be a great day.”
Find out more here: https://thescte.eu/events/scte-lectures
MARCH 2025 Volume 47 No.1
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