Eurobites: OneWeb recruited to help UK reach the (almost) unreachables

Zain Jordan has chosen Nokia to upgrade its existing network infrastructure and deploy 5G radio access network (RAN) equipment from its AirScale range. The deal covers more than 3,000 sites nationwide.

Huawei claims to have launched Uganda's first 5G industrial use cases – at a cement factory owned by HIMA – in partnership with MTN. At a demonstration of the technology, Huawei and MTN showed how 5G could be used, among other things, to make HIMA's training processes more efficient.

Following on from Virgin Media's broadband problems last week, rival UK operator Vodafone suffered a fairly significant outage over the Easter weekend with, as Reuters reports, around 1% of its 1.2 million customers affected on Sunday.

The BBC, possibly the world's best-known public broadcaster, is less than impressed with having its main Twitter account being labeled as "Government-funded media" by the social media platform, and has been in contact with its boss, Elon Musk, to try to have the designation changed. The BBC's argument is that rather than being funded directly from the government, it receives its funding from the British public through a license fee, which only has to be paid by viewers if they watch live TV on any platform or use the BBC's iPlayer catch-up service. At the time of writing, the "Government-funded media" label was still in place.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading