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FCC pushes forward on rules to block the certification of new telecoms gear from ZTE and Huawei

Crackdown on loopholes that allow 'high-risk' vendors to have equipment approved for use in the US

18 Jun 19:28 | 9

What a time to be alive: Cisco now offering 5G routers to ride along in cars

Switchzilla adds 5G options to edge routers and gateways, bets you'd rather buy its kit than run multiple networks

18 Jun 07:58 | 1

Private 5G networks – flexible, adaptable paths for operators, enterprises

ZTE envisions new 5G-enabled operator business models, revenue streams from vertical industries

Capita scores half a billion pound outsourcing contract, but refuses to name (or shame?) lucky 'European telco' customer

Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship?

15 Jun 15:30 | 9

Intel adds a new device – the ‘IPU’ – to its must-have modern data centre stack

You may know them as ‘SmartNICs’ or ‘DPUs’. Intel plans to make ‘em and software that lets 'em drive virtual networks and storage at scale

15 Jun 08:30 | 6

Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses'

Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households

14 Jun 19:11 | 14

Vodafone names vendors tapped for Britain's first wide-scale OpenRAN build: NEC, Dell, and Samsung

The big get Huawei: telco starts to rip and replace Chinese network maker's kit

14 Jun 14:10 | 4

Do you come from a land Down Under? Where diesel's low and techies blunder

UPS = Uninterruptable Pager Spying

14 Jun 07:49 | 100

As so many people work away from the office, Wi-Fi 6E is perfectly timed for connected homes, other wireless apps

Wi-Fi 6/6E use-cases drive adoption as network refresh gains distinct advantages

13 Jun 22:00 | 3

Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked

Well, that's one way to do it

11 Jun 18:29 | 54

Shuttered call centre sours Capita's £58m contract extension with Tesco Mobile

Communication Workers Union believes 'scores of employees' will be placed 'at risk' under proposals

11 Jun 14:33 | 8

BT promises firmware update for Mini Whole Home Wi-Fi discs to prevent obsessive Big Tech DNS lookups

Meanwhile users complain their IPs are being flagged for suspicious traffic

11 Jun 10:02 | 23

Network managers think you're coming back to the office. Why else did they go on a Wi-Fi 6 buying spree?

Q1 WLAN sales rose by 16.7 per cent year-on-year

10 Jun 15:13 | 7

BT 'welcomes' whopping £2bn investment by French telco Altice

Buy-in comes after (nearly) 24 years of living next door to Altice

10 Jun 13:06 | 22

Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec

Let's hope Sachin Jogia sticks around longer than his predecessor

10 Jun 12:14 | 7

UK launches consultation on forcing landlords to allow gigabit broadband upgrades

We want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond

09 Jun 13:46 | 20

Ethernet standards wonks eye up speeds beyond 400Gb/s

For now you have to cope with 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s over single-mode fiber, and brace for 100Gb/s over 80kms

08 Jun 03:57 | 15

Infrastructure SNAFU results in French public being unable to contact emergency services

Mobile provider Orange fingers 'technical issue' on a router

03 Jun 17:01 | 12

UK's BT starts trials of new hollow-core optical fibre networks

Promises lower latencies, higher power thresholds

01 Jun 15:17 | 41

TCP alternative QUIC reaches IETF's Standards Track after eight years of evolution

Google spawned it, Cloudflare backed it, Microsoft made its own cut. Boffins worry it didn't improve privacy

31 May 05:58 | 43

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Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down

Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more

A hotline to His Billness? Or a guard having a bit of a giggle?

Choose Your Own On Call

Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset

$500, 136-piece, tribble-laden Star Trek tribute is immense, but clearly illogical

South Korea bans 1700 tech products for using forged test reports

Huawei, Cisco, and Samsung caught out as US-based testing labs allegedly sent work to China

Poltergeist attack could leave autonomous vehicles blind to obstacles – or haunt them with new ones

First 'AMpLe' concept proves worryingly simple to implement with success

BOFH: When the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, only then will the UPS cease to supply uninterrupted voltage

Until that time, if it ain't broke... oh god, someone call the ambulance

Racist malware blocks The Pirate Bay by tampering with victims' Windows hosts file

Hello, 2002 called with one of the oldest low-tech tricks in the book

FYI: There's a human-less, AI robot Mayflower ship sailing from the UK to US right now

Follow this Plymouth to Plymouth trip online

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

What job title would YOU want carved on your gravestone? 'Beloved father, Slayer of Dragons, Register of Domains'

How did I love thee? Let me count the email redirections

Google dishes out homemade SLSA, a recipe to thwart software supply-chain attacks

Try it with phish'n'chips

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Give me a (tax) break: UK broadband plumber Openreach to almost double the number of rural premises to receive FTTP

Amazing how being able to write off 130% of infrastructure deployment focuses minds

28 May 15:15 | 19

MoD: Our networks are in 'unacceptable' state and both data and IT bods are stuck in silos

So if the generals would lend us a few bob to fix it that'd be nice of them

28 May 13:27 | 34

Systems Approach

Security is an architectural issue: Why the principles of zero trust and least privilege matter so much right now

We need to solve underlying problems, not increase complexity with point fixes

27 May 23:18 | 16

Mobile network sleuths rank UK carriers in 5G performance study, including new 'Everyday 5G' category

Close to half a billion pounds spent on 5G spectrum worth it for EE?

27 May 15:30 | 7

Cisco names Micron as supplier of SSDs that make Nexus and Firepower kit snooze

Drive looks to be an industrial model, so probably not a wider threat

26 May 05:58 | 2

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? Detroit waits for my order, you'd better make amends

I've worked hard all day on-call... you drive me round the bend

21 May 07:33 | 103

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

Like, you wouldn't filter out pages by Black people, right?

21 May 06:36 | 89

Cisco: A price rise is coming to a town near you imminently. Blame chip shortages

Not just Chuck struggling under the switch, rival Arista's supply chain has 'never been so constrained'

20 May 15:15 | 8

UK's competition watchdog gives £31bn Virgin Media and O2 merger the seal of approval

Minimal risk to MVNO or backhaul customers, probe finds

20 May 11:36 | 38

UK.gov puts feelers into tech market over £650m mobile voice and data shopping list

Crown Commercial Service not wedded to plans until it has had a nice chat with suppliers

20 May 10:46 | 4

India ponders why just three per cent of its broadband services are wired

Telcos behaving badly? Lack of subsidies? Whatever the cause, nation wants it fixed to handle flood of video

20 May 04:01 | 12

Frontier sued by FTC, six states for allegedly over-promising, under-delivering broadband

ISP denies wrongdoing, notes how difficult it is to get wires to rural areas

20 May 00:26 | 17

That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer trying a quick fix

'We feel bad about what happened'

19 May 17:49 | 68

Empowering industry digitalization with the ultimate 5G network evolution

Driver of digital economy, ZTE paves way for operators to boost 5G to-business revenue, ROI

Indian mega-carrier Jio to build pair of 200-terabit submarine cables

One going all the way from Mumbai to Italy, the other is Singapore-bound

18 May 06:58 | 10

The future is now, old man: Let the young guns show how to properly cock things up

17 May 07:30 | 91

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