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Mentor Horoscope for 2019

15th January 2019

How valuable are predictions? At this time of year, we are blitzed with a myriad of forecast and trend articles giving...

How to scale-up your Alt.net – lessons from the UK’s first network cash tsunami

12th December 2018

The wave of investment Recent full fibre newsflow has been incredible. The scale of new investments is truly game-changing. Investors are clamouring...

Will 5G make Fixed Wireless Access come of age?

28th November 2018

FWA – a new alternative to fibre? We’ve always thought of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) as a niche - or even...

7 steps to successfully manage your Program Portfolio

21st November 2018

What is Program Portfolio Management? A lot of programs run by organisations are not day-to-day or month-to-month by nature - they...

How and why Mentor was founded

1st November 2018

On 31st October 2018, nearly 300 people were given Chartered Project Professional status (ChPP) - the first of its kind...

Can Openreach build Full Fibre faster than anyone else?

5th September 2018

Full Fibre – a glimmer of hope Just as Ofcom released details of their plans for the UK’s Full Fibre future,...

5G Fibre Deployment: Economical, Fast, Flexible

27th June 2018

The UK is off the pace in the race to 5G. Other countries are accelerating away – not because we don’t...

How to increase 4G capacity and build strong foundations for 5G

7th June 2018

Network densification is the key trend for us – for two reasons. To boost capacity for 4G – and to...

Fibre: 5G’s best friend!

25th April 2018

In 5 to 10-years’ time, it won’t make practical or economic sense to run 5G networks using standard BT EAD/LA...