At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, BT announces new research into network design and build, and explores the future of 5G networks.
At Mobile World Congress 2017 (MWC) in Barcelona, BT announced its participation in the Telecoms Infra Project (TIP), a global initiative comprising Facebook, Deutsche Telekom, SK Telecom, EE, Nokia and Intel, to reshape how networks are designed and deployed, and enlisted Nokia to participate in a new research project into future 5G networks.
The TIP will see BT work jointly with Facebook and other community members at its technical lab in Adastral Park and other locations, enabling telecoms infrastructure startups to get hands on with sector experts from around the world.
BT said its involvement would help the expanding number of networking innovators in the UK, connecting them to new sources of investment and launching their products and services on a larger stage.
Through the partnership, TIP will open a number of startup accelerators, one of which will be hosted be BT in the UK, complementing an existing facility in South Korea.
“We’re excited to work with BT to launch TIP’s newest Ecosystem Acceleration Centres in the UK,” said Alex Jinsung Choi, TIP chairman and CTO of SK Telecom.
“We started these centres because we believe that we need to find ways to attract the brightest entrepreneurs and most innovative investors to work together as part of the TIP community.
