About Aberdeen City Council<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Aberdeen City Council provides local government services to 115,080 households and 8,651 businesses. The authority serves a population of 229,000 directly and on an operational basis the wider North-east population of 489,000. The Council employs approximately 8,600 staff.<\/p>\n
Aberdeen is a thriving, cosmopolitan port in the North-east of Scotland. Traditional industries such as fishing and farming still flourish in and around the city, which is home to two leading universities.\u00a0 The city\u2019s economy continues to be underpinned by the oil and gas sector, with Aberdeen recognised globally as a centre of excellence and expertise in the energy industry.<\/p>\n
The vision for Aberdeen is of an ambitious, achieving, smart city. Key objectives include maximising digital connectivity to ensure equal opportunity of access to services for all people and maximising digital connectivity to promote and develop business growth in the city.<\/p>\n
Accelerate Aberdeen is an ambitious programme of work to provide Aberdeen with the world class infrastructure and business development platforms to secure the long term vibrancy of the city\u2019s economy.\u00a0 As part of this programme, Aberdeen City Council has a Wireless Concession with Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) enabling the deployment of small cells within the city centre and beyond by allowing access to the Council\u2019s street furniture and buildings.\u00a0 Aberdeen City Region Deal area has also been selected as one of the pilot areas to deliver full fibre connection vouchers to meet the cost of fibre to the premises roll out in the region.<\/p>\n
O2 customers can now take advantage of enhanced mobile connectivity in public spaces such as stadiums, shopping centres, hotels and conference centres as a result of a multi-million pound network collaboration between O2 and Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG).<\/p>\n
Sports venues such as Liverpool\u2019s 54,000 capacity Anfield Stadium and Lord\u2019s cricket ground have already benefitted from the installation of new mobile infrastructure operated by WIG to improve coverage and capacity for customers.<\/p>\n
Major UK shopping centres benefitting from new or upgraded infrastructure include the Bentall Centre in Kingston, Bluewater in Kent, Meadowhall in Sheffield, and a host of INTU properties including Milton Keynes, Eldon Square, Metrocentre, Lakeside, Derby, Watford, Victoria and Uxbridge, as well as the iconic Trafford Centre which analysis of crowd-sourced data has shown a 50% improvement in network performance*.<\/p>\n
O2 has also deployed mobile services using new WIG infrastructure across hotels and other prestigious real estate developments including: the world-renowned Savoy Hotel, The Ned and Pullman hotels, as well as King\u2019s Cross, Canary Wharf and the Leadenhall Building (tallest in the City of London). Another high footfall venue that has benefitted from this collaboration between O2 and WIG is ExCel London, one of the largest UK conference centres.<\/p>\n
The investment comes as O2 gets its network 5G-ready in preparation ahead of launch later this year.<\/p>\n
Brendan O\u2019Reilly, Chief Technology Officer, O2 said: \u201cWhile we look ahead to 5G we also continue to focus on our existing network capability. We strive to deliver a great network experience to all our customers, including some of the UK\u2019s busiest locations where network demand is at its peak. Our multi-million pound investment with our partners at WIG should provide O2 customers with even better connectivity in the places they love to visit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott Coates, CEO of Wireless Infrastructure Group said: \u201cWIG\u2019s neutral-host infrastructure now enables mobile services in offices, shopping malls, hotels, stadiums and other public venues that total over one billion visitors a year. Neutral host infrastructure can play a vital role enabling 5G and WIG looks forward to expanding our successful partnership with O2.\u201d<\/p>\n
O2 currently offers 4G in almost 19,000 cities, towns and villages across the UK and spends the equivalent of \u00a32 million a day on strengthening its network and increasing its reach.<\/p>\n
The operator was recently awarded uSwitch\u2019s 2019 award for Best Network Coverage, as voted by the public.<\/p>\n
For more information please visit www.o2.co.uk\/connectivity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Aberdeen paves the way for 5G thanks to Wireless Infrastructure Group and\u00a0O2 Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) and O2\u00a0have partnered to launch the UK\u2019s first fibre-connected small cell network, supporting C-RAN technology for faster and higher capacity mobile services. WIG also announces plans to significantly expand its fibre operations focused on serving mobile networks.… Continue reading City of Aberdeen paves the way for 5G<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCity of Aberdeen paves the way for 5G | Wireless Infrastructure Group<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n