5G multicast is the part of the mobile standard nobody markets, and on 9 September 2026 it got a rare turn in the spotlight. Waseda University put out a press release under the headline “Bridging the information gap: AI-driven quality control for 5G multicast broadcasting”, and the trade press picked it up the same day. […]
HKUST researchers led by Khaled B. Letaief have published the first engineering roadmap for agentic 7G wireless networks in npj Wireless Technology. Their reasoning-empowered task-oriented communication framework lets AI agents decide what to share, when to transmit and why — turning networks from bit pipes into engines of collective intelligence. This article unpacks the three core capabilities, the 3GPP Release 21 timeline it sits against, the five open research gaps, and what agent-first networking means for businesses today.
Captive portal security is the part of hotel WiFi that guests see first and hotels understand least. The captive portal is the branded splash page that appears when a phone or laptop joins your guest network, asks for a room number or an email address, and then lets the device onto the internet. It looks […]
VLAN design is the one hotel IT decision that gets made twice: once badly, in an afternoon, by whoever installed the switches, and once properly, years later, by whoever has to pass a penetration test. The question that decides which version you end up with is disarmingly simple. How many networks does this hotel actually […]
Hotel network estates have quietly become the most complicated small networks in British business. A 164-bedroom property runs more addressable devices than a professional services firm three times its size, and it runs them for six different customers at once: the guest in room 312 streaming a film, the waiter taking a card at table […]
Hotel WiFi upgrade cost in the UK lands somewhere between £150 and £1,057 a bedroom, and the reason that range is so wide has almost nothing to do with the brand of access point on the quote. It has to do with how many radios you hang, how much new cable you pull, whether an […]
Power-Independent Infrastructure helps UK firms keep critical IT online during grid instability, power cuts, and high-peak energy shedding.
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