Fuelling the UK’s world-leading research and development to deliver unprecedented collaboration and commercial translation in the telecoms sector.

Initiatives

FTH is conducting world-leading research and development across all aspects of the telecoms ecosystem. The combined intellectual power of the hubs, which are convening the top technologists in the UK, helps to stimulate creativity that could not be achieved by any party alone.

However, FTH’s collective value is much more than the sum of its parts. It is a framework for catalysing innovation, and instilling a major shift in mindset amongst academics. To facilitate all of this it will deliver a number of initiatives.

Through JOINER, FTH can validate innovations in a large-scale network, foster skill development, collaboration, and data generation, and enable early testing—accelerating the advancement of 6G and beyond.

FTH is driving more value from intellectual property rights that might otherwise languish in a laboratory, creating a culture in the research community of patent before paper.

This includes our IPR Pool, which logs UK telecoms IP registrations and offers a window into UK academia for commercial operators, and a UK-first framework for assessing IP potential, allocating funding and fast-tracking proofs-of-concept.

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FTH will play a key role in equipping future telecoms professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to drive the next generation of connectivity.

The future of telecoms depends on people. But with growing skills gaps in AI, cloud computing, security, and advanced telecom technologies, the telecoms industry faces a challenge—how do we develop and attract the next generation of talent and future leaders to drive innovation?

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We are engaging with standards bodies to bring new innovations alongside industry partners, and ensure that research produced by members of the FTH can have the greatest possible societal and commercial impact.

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FTH is focused on driving value from the UK’s excellence in R&D, but telecoms is a global industry and the best research is borderless. So all our hubs are already engaging in international collaboration. Together we coordinate these endeavours to drive more opportunities and realise greater ambition.

FTH encompasses four collaborative hubs dedicated to cutting-edge research, unprecedented collaboration, and catalysing telecoms innovation.

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The Future of Wireless: Key Technology Developments

The wireless industry continues to move at breakneck speed, with new standards and innovations shaping how people and businesses connect.

nikola-serafimovski

3 October
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FTH Impact In Focus Series: Connected Health

FTH Impact In Focus Series: Connected Health In this series, we’ll highlight the real world applications and impact of work underway across Federated Telecoms Hubs (FTH). Over the coming months, we’ll delve into topics such as AI for connectivity, green telecoms, and much more. In this first edition, we focus on Connected Health – exploring […]

sarah

18 July
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A New Vision for the Commercialisation of Advanced Connectivity Technologies

A New Vision for the Commercialisation of Advanced Connectivity Technologies Recent advances in connectivity technologies (ACT), artificial intelligence and quantum technologies present great opportunities and challenges. To seize the opportunities, the nation must transform how it commercialises its world-leading university research and development (R&D). Moreover, doing so is critical to closing the UK’s persistent productivity […]

sarah
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FTH Contributor in the UK Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy for Digital and Technologies

FTH Contributor in the UK Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy for Digital and Technologies The Federated Telecoms Hubs (FTH) is proud to be recognised as a contributor in the UK Government’s newly launched Digital and Technologies Sector Plan, as part of the Modern Industrial Strategy.  The strategy outlines an ambitious roadmap for national innovation and economic […]

sarah

25 June

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