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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 | 58
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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
Networks
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 | 21
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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
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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
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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
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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 | 13
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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
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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
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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
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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
28 Apr 23:45 |
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
Networks
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
Who, Me?
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
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Software
'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group
Science
China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing
Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years
Bug of the week
How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price
Now that's a Buffett overflow error
Security
Google will make you use two-step verification to login
World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck
On Call
The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)
I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-
AI + ML
Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss
'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence
No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars
Personal Tech
Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices
'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'
Security
Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes
Plus: NCSC warns of how hostile powers may exploit smart city infrastructure
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Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away
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Networks
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
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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
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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
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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
Networks
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
Networks
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
Networks
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
Networks
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
Networks
India appoints ‘IP Guru’ to push nation towards IPv6
Three-pronged adoption drive includes cut-price courseware
19 Apr 02:59 | 32
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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
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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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UK watchdog blesses Virgin Media and O2's union, says there's no risk of market distortion or competition loss
Hard luck, BT
14 Apr 13:55 | 24
Networks
Telecoms Diversification Task Force urges UK government to give smaller hardware vendors a bigger slice of the 5G pie
Filling the void left by Huawei
14 Apr 08:30 | 5
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COVID-19 kicks mobile giant CK Hutchison's '3' twice: Robs operator of roaming revenue, sends data use soaring
Many European customers flee, Asia signs up in big numbers
14 Apr 03:58 |
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What's Red and scale-y and shacked up with NEC? A new Red Hat network function virtualization solution, apparently
Living on the Edge as SA networks roll out
13 Apr 19:01 |
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Northrop Grumman's MEV-2 gives Intelsat satellite a new lease on life until the next rescue in another five years
After 17 years into a 13-year mission, that's not bad
13 Apr 14:12 | 23
