Last week, the UK government announced £110m in funding allocation for 5G and 6G technologies. The package comes in three parts. A combined £28m will be allocated to the universities of York, Bristoland Surrey, to develop, design and build future networks such as 6G. The three universities will partner with Samsung, Nokia and Ericsson for this endeavor. The second part of the package, and the heftiest, is an £80m research center, the ‘UK Telecoms Lab’, to be built in Solihull near Birmingham in central England. It is to serve as a secure research facility for mobile network operators (MNOs), suppliers and academics working on future 5G and 6G technologies and networks. Lastly comes a new R&D partnership with South Korea,…