Insight

In the latest article in our series on how to successfully execute your network transformation, we are going to turn our focus on the key pitfalls you are likely to encounter, and the strategies you can take to avoid them altogether, or at least to mitigate their...

Over the last six months, The Network Collective (TNC) has been running the biggest- ever independent survey of network service provider performance in the UK. Using our unique position of trust at the heart of the industry, we have been asking companies throughout...

2025 has been a year of incredible change in the network and telecoms market, with seemly non-stop technology change and service provider mergers, all against a constant backdrop of increasing demand for connectivity, ever-rising security threats, and of course the...

 The UK market for mobile and mobility services continues to be incredibly dynamic, with new technologies entering, ongoing merger and acquisition activity changing, and continued and sustained price compression.  Given it has been a few months since we last reviewed...

If you haven’t transformed your network in the last 24 months, you will almost certainly have to in the next 24 months. That’s the harsh reality facing almost every organisation today, but how did we reach such a brutal place? Let’s start by defining what network...

In these challenging economic times, almost all organisations are under pressure to cut costs and to make their budgets go further.  With network and telecoms costs being some of the largest elements of the IT budget, they are typically, and rightly, one of the first...

Executive Summary  In today's digital landscape, cyber security is essential. As organisations seek to protect their data and infrastructure, Zero Trust Networking (ZTN) is emerging as a significant contributor to an organisation's cyber security strategy, and is...

This year is an important one for The Network Collective as we’re celebrating 20 years of delivering truly independent telecoms and network expertise.   So, it’s only right that we share the story about how we got here.  We sat down with Founder and industry expert...

One of the most challenging and misunderstood topics in the UK telecoms market in 2025 is the impending analogue switch-off.  Despite years of planning by Ofcom and the telcos, there continues to be confusion about what is happening, when it is happening, and what you...

Most organisations need to deliver cost savings as they seek to weather challenging financial times, and for many as they brace for the increase in employer National Insurance contributions (ENICs) set for April 2025.  It is therefore vital these organisations...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that the big debate in the WAN industry was whether MPLS was dead, slayed by the arrival of SD-WAN, so can we really already be contemplating the demise of SD-WAN, itself slayed by the rise of SASE?    Amazing as it might seem, that is a...