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Adrian Smith, West Midlands 5G's Health & Social Care Lead, will be discussing health connectivity in the post-COVID world in the next In-Orbit Podcast, which will launch on Tuesday 13th April. Read More >

5PRING – the consortium delivering the UK’s first 5G commercial application accelerators – has partnered with leading global infrastructure operator Ferrovial. Read More >

Join 5PRING and its fantastic founders as they showcase their latest achievements, challenges and future goals. Read More >

5G technical and business incubation programme for early stage start-ups, innovators with interesting Construction solutions Read More >

West Midlands 5G (WM5G) has developed the UK’s very first 5G-connected tram as part of a regional transport trial in partnership with West Midlands Metro, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), GoMedia and Icomera. Read More >

5PRING has announced a series of events to showcase the UK’s first commercial 5G accelerators in Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, demonstrate how organisations can transform their businesses and let people how they can get involved Read More >

5PRING is poised to revolutionise the West Midlands with its brand new 5G hub in Birmingham. Read More >

5PRING is poised to revolutionise the West Midlands with its brand new 5G hub in Wolverhampton. Read More >

Discover how West Midlands 5G’s (WM5G) Infrastructure Acceleration (IA) team has enabled the deployment of 5G, with infrastructure delivered 6-12 months ahead of schedule in Birmingham, Dudley and Wolverhampton. Read More >

5PRING is poised to revolutionise the West Midlands with its brand new 5G hub in Coventry. Read More >

Ten leading start-ups are working with 5PRING, Suez and the WMCA to pioneer green innovations using 5G – as part of 5PRING’s first 3 month start-up acceleration event. Read More >

Members of the West Midlands 5G team have been quoted in Midlands Business Insider in an article on how UK SMEs in the aerospace sector have benefitted from the installation of a 5G network.  Read More >

Telefonica's O2 UK and aerospace company, Leonardo have teamed up to investigate applications and demonstrate the advantages of 5G private networks to the defence and security industry. Read More >

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), a facility in Coventry dedicated to supporting manufacturers to benefit from new technologies, is launching a 5G private network to help manufacturers boost productivity via 5G use cases. Read More >

West Midlands 5G's Health and Social Care Lead, Adrian Smith, has been featured in the latest issue of The Carer magazine, discussing how 5G will help to transform social care provision and improve patient safety. Read More >

West Midlands 5G is looking for six youngsters, aged 18-24, to take part in 5G in 5 Days – the testbed’s new youth engagement programme. Read More >

AE Aerospace, a leading manufacturing business in the West Midlands, will be the first UK SME to deploy a 5G private network and will work together with WM5G and its technology partners, on three new 5G use cases set to transform manufacturing. Read More >

West Midlands 5G's managing director, Robert Franks, will be speaking at Venturefest West Midlands on Thursday 28th January. Venturefest West Midlands is a free, one-day event aimed at supporting business growth through innovation. Read More >

On Tuesday 17th November 2020, West Midlands 5G's chairman, Mark Stansfeld, spoke at Insider Media's Insider Online Forum on 5G and the superconnected city.  Read More >

Vulnerable care home residents in Coventry have had their risk from Covid-19 significantly reduced after becoming the first in the UK to receive contact-free treatment from GPs using 5G technology. Read More >

Poppy Dowell, Head of 5G Acceleration at 5pring, will be representing the West Midlands at the Built Environment Networking 5G Development Conference. Read More >