01732 759725 05 magazine Inside out mobile connectivity Tenants of Lucent W1, Landsec’s new mixed-use (office, retail and residential) development behind the world-famous Piccadilly Lights in Piccadilly Circus can look forward to reliable in-building connectivity from all four mobile network operators (MNOs), thanks to a 4G distributed antenna system (DAS) and managed service being deployed by Freshwave, a connectivity infrastructure-as-aservice provider. The DAS, covering landlord areas and available to tenants under Freshwave’s pay-as-you-occupy model, provides a reliable, high quality 4G signal by connecting directly into the four MNOs’ core networks. In-building connectivity removes reliance on outdoor mobile signals that can be blocked by building materials like concrete and energyefficient glass. www.freshwavegroup.com BULLETIN for organisations that don’t have cyber insurance – 69% more than for those that do. The top three factors contributing to higher cyber incident costs are increased insurance premiums (37%), operational downtime (36%) and recovery and response costs (32%). https://www.s-rminform.com/cybersecurity-insights-report-2023 ... Price hikes add to cyber woes Analysis by Veeam Software shows that last year, in the wake of a successful ransomware attack, 68% of businesses were forced to increase their prices by an average of 17%. More than three quarters (78%) also had to reduce their headcount. (Source: The Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2023 www.veeam.com) ... In the dark about switch-off Gamma Communications plc is warning that 30% of UK businesses are in the dark about the discontinuation of BT Openreach’s Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) due to be completed by December 2025. According to its report, The Big Switch-Off: Are UK Businesses Aware and Prepared?, only 54% of businesses that currently rely on legacy services for customer communications, order taking, internal communications, security and lift operation are currently aware of the Switch-Off. Three quarters (74%) of businesses are yet to complete essential migration tasks and 49% haven’t started researching alternatives. Gamma warns that scrambling to adopt new digital solutions at the last-minute could overwhelm providers. www.gamma.co.uk ... Seek and ye shall waste time App sprawl is causing 74% of workers to waste 1.5 days a week navigating disconnected collaboration tools. A survey of 3,000 US and UK workers by Asana’s Work Innovation Lab found that on average employees spend nearly an hour and a half a day looking for information needed for work, 57 minutes switching between collaboration tools and 30 minutes simply deciding what collaboration technologies they should use for a specific task. Over one third believe AI will help reduce the number of collaboration technologies needed, but only 28% say their organisation is well-prepared to deploy AI. ... Businesses pick up tab for inefficient browsing AI-powered market research platform AMPLYFI claims that workers waste 7.7 hours a week, the equivalent of one working day, searching for information. Yet, still, 43% of decision-makers are unable to find the resources they need. Over half (57%) believe there are too many channels to visit in order to source the information needed for their job. Search engines (55%) are the most common source of information, with 41% of knowledge workers having 6-10 tabs open in their internet browser at any one time. Over half (57%) of respondents said they find contradictions in data across different channels, leaving them unsure which to trust; 72% believe less than half the content they are able to access is relevant. Paul Teather, CEO of AMPLYFI, said: “AI is opening up new avenues for information gathering. Businesses can now harness a single source of information, conduct a lifetime of reading in 20 minutes, and create their own highly relevant content feeds, pulling from multiple sources across the internet. AI is ultimately allowing knowledge workers to put their fingerprint on the vast pool of data available.” Amplyfi.com ... Unfair weather friend As the organisation responsible for collecting weather information across Greenland for use in global climate surveys, ASIAQ Greenland Survey relies on robust equipment that can deal with unpredictable and harsh conditions on land and at sea, including rain, snow, high volumes of dust and moisture and temperatures as low as -20°C. It recently ordered new Panasonic TOUGHBOOKs from Danish IT supplier Northcom, continuing a long-standing relationship with the rugged laptop market leader. A key attraction for ASIAQ Greenland Survey, alongside the devices’ rugged design, is their reliable connectivity. This is essential for remotely calibrating equipment and collecting and transferring weather and environmental data from the field to the Survey’s head office in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. https://eu.connect.panasonic.com ... Data surge The global average data consumption per smartphone is predicted to increase from 21GB/month to 56GB/ month between 2023 and 2029, attributed to factors such as improved device capabilities, an increase in data intensive content and continued improvements in the performance of deployed networks (Source: The Ericsson Mobility Report, November 2023 www.ericsson.com) Photo: Landsec
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