Company · Newbury
Vodafone's quantum work splits between protecting its networks and testing quantum computers on network design. At MWC in March 2025 it showed IBM's quantum-safe cryptography added to Vodafone Secure Net, its smartphone security service. In June 2025 it began trying ORCA Computing's PT-2 photonic processor on fibre network planning, solving a Steiner Tree problem with support from the UK Quantum Technology Access Programme. Vodafone was also a partner in Xairos UK's TimeLink project, which finished phase one of Innovate UK's quantum navigation and timing mission in May 2026.
Vodafone, based in Newbury, is a company whose work covers quantum communications and security; it was founded in 1984. It is a partner in 1 UK project: IQN.
Sources: Vodafone and IBM enhance smartphone security with quantum-safe cryptography | Quantum Zeitgeist · Vodafone and ORCA Computing trial quantum computing for faster network optimisation | Quantum Zeitgeist · £1.4M TimeLink programme de-risks Xairos quantum protocols | Quantum Zeitgeist
IQN
A national research hub building quantum networks, from local links to satellite connections. Heriot-Watt University leads it.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Networks, Communications
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