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Openreach slaps another 5 million premises on top of FTTP connection target, expects to pay 'minimal tax in the UK' over next few years

We'll hire 7,000 to get it done by 2026, says boss

13 May 14:39 | 7

FCC starts probing effects of semiconductor drought on the US telecoms supply chain

If only there was a business to consult about chip shortages? Ah, that's right. Huawei, awks

12 May 23:16 | 1

On eve of national industrial ballot, BT, EE, Openreach agree to temporarily suspend compulsory redundancies

Well, the telco always said it's good to talk: Negotiations over jobs, pay, grading, and more set for this month

12 May 13:45 | 8

Not keen on a 5G mast in your street? At least it'd be harder for crackpots to burn down 'a flying cell tower in orbit'

Another satellite constellation prepares for launch, this one aimed at next-gen connectivity for IoT devices

12 May 09:15 | 39

Copper load of this: Openreach outlines 77 new locations where it'll stop selling legacy phone and broadband products

You can't buy this kind of service. No, literally

11 May 14:27 | 49

Broadband plumber Openreach yanks legacy copper phone lines in Suffolk town of Mildenhall en route to getting the UK on VoIP

Just four years to go before planned switch-off

07 May 13:04 | 82

China is upset India excluded Chinese equipment from 5G network trials

Why are you giving yourself a kick in the innovation economy?

07 May 04:03 | 3

Telcos crammed 8.5m fake comments against net neutrality into FCC's inbox

While some teen generated 7.7m bogus pro-NN notes to US broadband regulator

06 May 21:06 | 20

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

Default passwords, no updates, and your data's flowing through these

06 May 11:30 | 39

India approves 5G trials – if they don't use Chinese 5G kit

Government department wants carriers to facilitate testing of homegrown tech for India-specific use cases

05 May 04:44 | 1

Norwegian telco Telenor writes off its Myanmar operation

Military coup creates such a nasty environment it’s hung up on $780 million of assets

05 May 02:04 | 2

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble

05 May 00:11 | 14

Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!

They! may! take! the! exclamation! point! but! they! will! never! take! our! headlines!

03 May 20:57 | 33

Intel laid me off for being too old, engineer claims in lawsuit

'If you think age is an advantage in this job, you are mistaken'

30 Apr 21:03 | 41

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

So what if I pay peanuts for my home broadband? I demand you fix it NOW!

The Zoom meeting I’m missing is already miles away

30 Apr 09:06 | 86

Huawei revenue dips 16 per cent to $23.5bn. Bosses aren't worried because decline was a matter of (selling smartphone brand) Honor

$600m in patent royalty payments pour in to help margins pop

29 Apr 03:57 | 1

What’s the biggest roadblock to data centre automation? The network

Your first step towards the self-driving data centre is choosing the right co-driver, says Huawei

FCC gives SpaceX the go-ahead to drop Starlink satellite orbits by 500 kilometres or so

Low enough to witness Musk's Twitter trolling of Jeff Bezos?

28 Apr 18:49 | 30

Ofcom 5G auction ends with UK carriers spending £23m for choice spectrum positionings

What's £23m compared to £1.35bn?

28 Apr 11:01 | 6

FreedomFi's 5G gateways will mine HNT cryptocurrency for owners who dole out coverage to passing users, IoT devices

Traffic + Demand * Bandwidth = $$$ (maybe)

28 Apr 08:30 | 6

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Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page

It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS

WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you

Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out

Microsoft says Outlook hit by 'email visibility issues' – as in, they're blank

Here's an unofficial fix for those who need their messages now

Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish

Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons

'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now

'More data, more breadth, more depth... it's the whole f&*king deal'

US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei

The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD

Tech industry quietly patches FragAttacks Wi-Fi flaws that leak data, weaken security

Dozen design, implementation blunders date back 24 years

Open-source JavaScript project Babel 'running out of money' after employing paid maintainers, sponsors pull out

Creator deletes posts alleging 'mismanagement' to blame

Water's wet, the Pope's Catholic, and iOS is designed to stop folk switching to Android, Epic trial judge told

Fortnite maker wheels out economist to explain how Apple works

IBM compiles dataset to teach software how software is made: 14m code samples, half of which actually work

Big Blue hopes to create the ImageNet of training resources for AI-powered programming tools

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Don't blame rural carriers for buying Huawei, says FCC Commissioner. They couldn't afford the top-shelf stuff

Cites extremely nascent OpenRAN as country's great hope

27 Apr 18:49 | 5

China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio

The standard is nascent and won’t land for almost a decade. But the jockeying for position is already fierce

27 Apr 02:58 | 54

Cloudflare offers $100,000 for prior art to nuke networking patents a troll has accused it of ripping off

Picking intellectual property fights with internet backbone biz seldom ends well

26 Apr 22:28 | 23

OK so what's going with these millions of Pentagon-owned IPv4 addresses lighting up all of a sudden?

Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all

26 Apr 20:35 | 14

Don't cross the team tasked with policing the surfing habits of California's teens

You don't get me, I'm part of the union

26 Apr 07:30 | 96

Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details

23 Apr 18:32 | 24

Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher

Early users get speed, so policy-makers may stop building, but more users means slower speeds ...

23 Apr 07:04 | 43

UK Telecoms Diversification Taskforce says Ofcom should take lead to ensure telcos don't rely on too few suppliers

Finding Huawei out of this mess

21 Apr 11:15 | 6

Chinese officials declare intention to become network superpower, tout glorious 5G rollout that's smaller than local carriers' claims

Great Leap Forward sees broadband speeds surge, 99 per cent of villages hooked up, all for $6/month

21 Apr 02:17 | 12

Working from a countryside plot nestled in a not-spot? Consultation opens on new rural mobile planning laws for bigger masts, wider coverage

Here we go again - you don't want them in your backyard, amirite?

20 Apr 15:04 | 24

If your internet wobbled last weekend, you have Vodafone India to thank for it

It's always BGP (when it’s not DNS). Absent route filtering didn't help either

20 Apr 04:32 | 7

Huawei could have snooped on the Dutch prime minister's phone calls thanks to KPN network core access

Nobody caught – er, held us responsible, says Chinese firm

19 Apr 12:45 | 44

Plot twist! South Korean telco uses 5G to fight coronavirus via hospital-patrolling robot

Modified Keemi disinfects, takes temperatures, tells you off for not socially distancing

19 Apr 10:58 | 12

India appoints ‘IP Guru’ to push nation towards IPv6

Three-pronged adoption drive includes cut-price courseware

19 Apr 02:59 | 32

Vote to turf out remainder of Nominet board looks inevitable after .uk registry ignores reform demands

PublicBenefit.uk campaign reports 97 per cent of its supporters behind effort

15 Apr 06:32 | 71

Huawei tells the FCC it can't force US carriers to scrap its gear – that's Congress's job

We're sure the comms watchdog will take that on board

14 Apr 18:45 | 6

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