In 2025, the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) will reach their end of life.
By then, every analogue phone line in the UK will have moved to a fully digital network that uses Internet Protocol (IP) across a fibre-based service. This won’t just affect voice services; it may also mean you need to upgrade your access services and migrate critical systems.

Poor mental health is a growing problem among children. An estimated 20% of all young people report experiencing a mental health issue of some kind in any given year, according to research by the World Health Organisation.

Near-unlimited access to the internet benefits young people in a number of ways. From an education perspective, it gives them access to a whole world of information, news and views at the click of a button.

Although the exact extent of its impact is yet to be seen, reports are suggesting that the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown may have had a devastating and long-lasting impact on many of the UK’s most vulnerable children.

Transparency, accessibility, and control. When supporting job seekers back into the world of work through government schemes – especially in a time as volatile as now – these three imperatives are a good place to start.

No organisation operates in a vacuum. Rather, its interdependencies are many and manifest.

IoT ecosystems are underpinning more and more services across the UK. Before we look at cyber security in an IoT context, it’s worth recounting how we arrived in a connected world.

Since IoT is the acquisition, transfer, analysis and monetization of data via connected devices, it is clearly ripe for the UK rail sector.

There is no doubt that we’re going through one of the toughest periods in living memory, for individuals, for organisations and for the sectors and industries they work in.