Category: Insights
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Myth-busting hospital connectivity challenges in modern healthcare
If you’ve ever tried to make a mobile call from a hospital – or watched a clinician stand by a window to try and get signal to their smartphone – you’ll know that using a mobile device inside a hospital can be a challenge. Hospitals are often mobile signal not spots, with their thick walls…
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Core inefficiencies: The hidden impact of a disconnected hospital
Disconnected care: The impact of poor mobile connectivity in NHS hospitals A three-part series 3/3 Hospitals can be some of the most challenging environments to deliver assured 4G and 5G connectivity to. Thick walls, miles of ducting and complex layouts, combined with materials to keep people safe (such as lead shielding in x-ray suites), block…
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Staying oink-line: New mast at Paultons Park, home of Peppa Pig World, enhances mobile connectivity for visitors and staff
Paultons Park is a family-run theme park in Hampshire, England, with over 70 rides and attractions, including the enormously popular Peppa Pig World. The park itself is set in 140 acres of parkland in New Forest National Park and had a long-standing requirement for additional mobile coverage. And welcoming more than one million visitors annually,…
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The patient perspective: Reliably connecting urgent calls in hospitals
Disconnected care: The impact of poor mobile connectivity in NHS hospitals A three-part series 2/3 Hospitals can be some of the most challenging environments to deliver assured 4G and 5G connectivity to. Thick walls, miles of ducting and complex layouts, combined with materials to keep people safe (such as lead shielding in x-ray suites), block…
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Frontline staff: Dealing with poor mobile connectivity when every second matters
Disconnected care: The impact of poor mobile connectivity in NHS hospitals A three-part series 1/3 Hospitals can be some of the most challenging environments to deliver assured 4G and 5G connectivity to. Thick walls, miles of ducting and complex layouts, combined with materials to keep people safe (such as lead shielding in x-ray suites), block…
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Eight hundred outdoor small cells in London and beyond
When it comes to delivering outdoor small cells, experience matters. And, working in close partnership with the mobile network operators (MNOs), we have more than 800 small cells live in towns and cities across the country. So, if you’re a local authority wondering how to enhance mobile connectivity in your community, read on to find…
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Small cells, big moment: Freshwave rings in new era with first indoor 5G JOTS-ready data call at the Small Cells World Summit
We surprised an industry legend at the Small Cells World Summit (SCWS) in June and made telecoms history in the process. Live on stage at the 2025 Summit, we placed the first ever indoor 5G neutral host JOTS-ready data call to none other than Dave Morris of Virgin Media O2, celebrating his imminent retirement and…
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Bringing mobile connectivity to train passengers and staff with Project Reach
By Simon Frumkin, CEO, Freshwave In a time when passengers expect to browse, stream, and stay in touch wherever they go, Network Rail is leading the way with a bold move to enhance mobile connectivity for its passengers and staff. Their vision isn’t just about convenience; it’s about transforming the travel experience and making rail…
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Driving UK growth with better in-building mobile connectivity
By Simon Frumkin, CEO, Freshwave The UK government has made its priorities clear. Sir Keir Starmer has stated that “Growth is the number one priority of this government”. However, for the UK economy to grow, we must address one of its most persistent challenges: low productivity. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has…
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National Apprenticeship Week: Skills for Life
This week marks National Apprenticeship Week, the biggest week in the apprenticeship and skills calendar. This year’s theme is “Skills for Life” and to mark the occasion we wanted to take to opportunity to introduce our great apprentices. We have network engineer apprentices as well as an in-house solicitor apprentice. Network engineer apprentices Our network engineer…