SCTE Broadband - May 2025


Contents
3

Editor's Letter
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Letter from Our President
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SCTE News
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SCTE News
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SCTE News - Interra Systems at ANGA COM 2025
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SCTE News - Metrics for the UK Independent Networking Sector Report 2025
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SCTE Benelux News
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SCTE Balkans News
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SCTE Long Read - How On Earth Did It Come To This? The Sorry State of Rare Earth Minerals
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Thoughts From The SCTE
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SCTE Member Focus - Jeremy Stubbs
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Industry News - 5G takes root - Virgin Media o2 business kicks off private network trials at Worcestershire 'Farm of the Future'
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Industry News - 2025 sees Virgin Media o2 complete major steps to evolve its mobile network
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Industry News - INCA Welcomes Ofcom's latest announcement on Full-Fibre Broadband Rollout
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Industry News - Gigabit broadband reaches nearly 85% of UK premises
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Industry News - IQGeo enters exclusive negotiations to acquire AI software developer Deepomatic
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Industry News - International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
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From the Industry - Interview with Ben Allwright of OGI
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Thoughts From The SCTE
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From the Industry - The Dangers of Expedited Telecoms Work
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From the Industry - Turning Bandwidth into Brandwidth
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From the Industry - A Dual Mandate for Broadband Providers - Maintaining an acceptable ROI while meeting broadband growth demands
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From the Industry - Building a Connected Britain through location data
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SCTE Presents - Across the Pond
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Thoughts From The SCTE
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From the Industry - The Reconstruction of the Telecommunications Landscape
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From the Industry - From Infrastructure to intelligence - AI and the rise of self-aware networks
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From the Industry - Paddy Paddison in the Hot Seat
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Industry Events - ANGA COM 2025
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From the Industry - Why the low take up and how to fix it?
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From the Industry - Nokia's Triple Play - Fibre, Fixed Wireless and the Power of Automation
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From the Industry - Reimagining Digital Infrastructure - How HPC, AI and Cooling Innovation are redefining the data centre
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Thoughts From The SCTE
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From the Industry - How the Syndeo Institute is amplifying industry innovation
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From the Industry - Beyond Speed - elevating subscriber experience with unified DOCSIS 4.0, low-latency services and fibre optionality
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From the Industry - From Lab to Field - How AI and remote monitoring are revolutionising QA for video services
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Technical - The Isle of Wight's Big Copper Switch Off
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Technical - Will hyperautomation replace automation in telecoms?
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Technical - State of the Private 4G/5G Market
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Technical - An Interview with Celona
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Spotlight - Bridging the Rural Dividee - How Technetix rOLT is Transforming Fibre Access
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Start up Zone - Elemendar - a start up revolutionising cybersecurity with AI
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Start up Zone - Hicomply - revolutionising information Security
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Start up Zone - Secretarium- A Global Leader in Confidential Computing, the art of demonstrating data privacy and protection
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Acronym Explainer
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Products - EXFO's AXS-130 Compact OTDR
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Service Finder
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Trade Show and Events - Diary Dates for 2025
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