A major investment of £62 million will help to position the UK to shape the next generation of telecoms networks.
The funding through UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) £70million Technology Missions Fund (TMF) Future Telecoms Mission will support the development of technologies that will be crucial to future telecoms networks such as 6G.
The funding was announced by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology today.
Julia Lopez, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure, said:
This £70 million funding boost will help drive the UK’s efforts to bring forward the next wave of future telecoms technology – one of our five critical technologies. By supporting collaboration between researchers and businesses of all sizes we are helping to nurture new, game-changing advances which will deliver for people across the country.
Through Project Gigabit, one million premises now have access to state of the art connectivity, and we’re also rolling out more Alpha Trials sites to bring satellite-connectivity to some of our hardest to reach areas. This shows that we will leave no stone unturned in cementing the UK’s position as a world leader in research, connectivity and telecoms.
