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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home
US puts charges on ice, extradition attempt halted
25 Sep 00:20 | 82
Networks
Boatnotes II
'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport
Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing
24 Sep 10:49 | 50
Networks
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
24 Sep 06:02 | 26
Networks
Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of
'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired
24 Sep 02:58 | 9
Networks
If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband
NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max
24 Sep 01:35 | 18
Networks
Need US mobile data? Cellular data plan launches on the Helium Blockchain
The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky?
23 Sep 16:45 | 3
Networks
BT jittery about Cellnex snapping up UK mobile tower assets
Brit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria
23 Sep 13:43 | 6
Systems Approach
Here's an idea: Verification for computer networks as well as chips and code
What tools are available? What are the benefits? Let's find out
23 Sep 07:28 | 8
Networks
Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning
Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done
23 Sep 06:58 | 45
Networks
Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack
What in the blazes?
22 Sep 18:01 | 66
Boatnotes II
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
22 Sep 09:12 | 90
Boatnotes II
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
21 Sep 08:29 | 121
Networks
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
21 Sep 06:35 | 12
Networks
Three UK says its 5G plans are under threat if tower merger with Euro giant Cellnex is blocked
According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog
20 Sep 10:02 | 14
Networks
How long till some drunkard puts a foot through one of BT's 'iconic, digital smart city communication hubs'?
Phonebox upgrade dishes out internet and more in Kensington and Chelsea
17 Sep 15:32 | 42
Networks
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet
Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment
17 Sep 00:22 | 39
Networks
CityFibre scores extra £1bn+ of funding to plumb in up to 8 million British homes by 2025
Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors
16 Sep 18:30 | 11
Networks
Myanmar junta demanded telcos activate phone interception tools – and we refused, says Telenor
Norwegian carrier insists it's quitting Asian nation to defend human rights – but the buyer it lined up is accused of shady dealings
16 Sep 07:57 | 13
Networks
India changes telco tax laws to help carriers avoid hitting the wall
Moratorium offered to ease burden of $22B debts
16 Sep 05:33 |
Networks
Huawei CEO hopes to woo foreign boffins to work on 6G in Shanghai campus that feels just like home
Staff also told to 'seize the patent position' on sixth-gen mobile networks
15 Sep 23:48 | 15
Popular
Who, Me?
Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close
An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter
Software
As Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
From January 2023, add-ons built with Manifest V2 API will fail
Software
This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing
Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced
Exclusive
Metrobank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised
Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...
Opinion
If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place
'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
Legal
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
Security
Story of the creds-leaking Exchange Autodiscover flaw – the one Microsoft wouldn't fix even after 5 years
Redmond reckoned protocol weakness is not a security vulnerability
Security
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more
Updated
iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro, claims 'any display replacement knocks out Face ID'
Battery still swappable – rest fiddly
Off-Prem
Yet another Big Tech exec heads to central government: This time IBMer Dan Bailey in 6-month stint
Big Blue UK and Ireland cloud man hired as 'interim' CTO, tasked with creating fellowship of the cloud
STORIES
Networks
DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich
Mmmm... BACN. Is there anything it can't do?
15 Sep 21:27 | 6
Networks
BT Wholesale wants the channel to give SMBs a nudge before copper sunset in 2025
New products launched to help shift oblivious or straggler firms over ahead of PSTN switch-off
15 Sep 15:43 | 32
Networks
Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore
Grace Hopper landed
15 Sep 13:28 | 62
Networks
Beijing wants its internet to become 'civilized' by always reflecting Marxist values
Content won't be welcome if it doesn't laud the Party, strays into anything a little tawdry, or diverts from the official line
15 Sep 00:58 | 54
Networks
G7 countries outgun UK in worldwide broadband speed test
Ofcom: You know, superfast broadband is available if you'd care to take it up
14 Sep 13:01 | 50
Networks
Ignore politics of whitebox radio: Mix and match OpenRAN tech will be 10% of market in 2025, claims analyst
Critics say the post-Huawei world of telco networking increases complexity but it has legs
14 Sep 10:15 |
Networks
BT hails hollow-core fibre trials as 'critical advancement' for secure communications
Telco claims to have run Quantum Key Distribution over 6km of cable
13 Sep 16:01 | 7
Networks
We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets'
4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place
08 Sep 14:29 | 22
Networks
UK's NHS hands Accenture another £5m for Test and Trace system for another year
What happened to transferring £1,000-per-day consultant work to the civil service?
06 Sep 11:29 | 11
Sponsored
Operating your network isn’t enough. You need to develop (for) it
Time to drive NetOps beyond the command line
06 Sep 09:15 |
Who, Me?
A practical demonstration of the difference between 'resilient' and 'redundant'
Bump and grind in the server racks
06 Sep 07:34 | 71
Networks
O-RAN Alliance: Nokia downplays decision to take breather as critics worry over fate of key industry groups
Backs away from potential Entity List security issues related to Chinese alliance members
02 Sep 09:35 | 1
Networks
Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?
'A Republican majority will not forget'
02 Sep 05:31 | 128
Networks
China welcomed its billionth netizen in the first half of 2021
297M are rural, 983M use instant messaging, 469M order food online, and they average 26.9 hours online every week
30 Aug 08:01 | 7
Networks
Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms
Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat
27 Aug 07:15 | 24
Networks
UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?
New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth'
26 Aug 12:24 | 156
