Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft
Column The politics of a global decentralised high-speed public internet service
15 Mar 2021 | 113
Networks
Why yes, I'll take that commendation for fixing the thing I broke
Who, Me? Behold, the amazing bullsh*tting man
15 Mar 2021 | 76
A lot of things will have changed with Biden as US president, but an easier ride for Huawei is not one of them
Nice to see politicos agree on something, even if it is 'bipartisan dislike' of China
12 Mar 2021 | 10
UK.gov about to release £500m funding for Shared Rural Network targeting countryside 4G notspots
Industry will pick up the rest of bill... yep, this old chestnut again
12 Mar 2021 | 14
ISP industry blasts UK Telecoms Security Bill for vague requirements, high costs of compliance
'They're dictating how to monitor networks, without fully understanding the impact on the sector'
12 Mar 2021 | 20
Communication Workers Union to hold national ballot for members at BT, Openreach and EE over strike action
37 years later and former state-owned telco might be facing its own Black Monday
12 Mar 2021 | 15
Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft
See, regular expressions are hard
10 Mar 2021 | 16
Apple announces €1bn Munich semiconductor R&D facility focused on wireless comms
Claims campus will be home to 'Europe's largest mobile technologies engineering team'
10 Mar 2021 |
As battle for future of .UK's Nominet draws closer, non-exec director hits a nerve with for-profit proposal
Suggestion to hand out shares in new registry dismissed as a non-starter
10 Mar 2021 | 48
Vodafone on mega Euro masts biz: From our Vantage point, we want €2bn+ from towers IPO
Sales of €950m in shares already agreed as float day looms
09 Mar 2021 | 2
SpaceX wants to slap Starlink internet terminals on planes, trucks, and boats – but Tesla owners need not apply
They're 'much too big' says Musk
09 Mar 2021 | 58
Vodafone chief gushes over OpenRAN, says commercial deployments to start this year
But still some way to go before standards-based tech can match mainstream products
09 Mar 2021 | 6
Cisco issues blizzard of end-of-life notices for Nexus 3K and 7K switches
Service options decline starting next year... so there may be a Nexus 9K switch in your future
09 Mar 2021 | 10
First Verizon, now T-Mobile: US carrier suggests folks use 2G to save battery
Why are cellular networks so worried about batt life during lockdown?
05 Mar 2021 | 31
Day 5 of Openreach strikes: No use of tech company toilets. No water. Fresh dates outlined
Updated 'No access to buildings' for striking Repayment Project engineers, confirms company
05 Mar 2021 | 27
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol
One-fifth of all flights in a 3 hour period were affected
05 Mar 2021 | 70
It only took four years and thousands of complaints but ICANN finally kills off rogue Indian domain registrar
DNS oversight body accused again and again of chronic foot-dragging
04 Mar 2021 | 22
Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired
Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month
02 Mar 2021 | 66
After spending $45bn on 5G licences, Verizon tells customers to turn off 5G to save battery life
You've just got to have 5G... except when you don't
01 Mar 2021 | 35
Copper broadband phaseout will leave UK customers with higher bills and less choice, says comparison site
It seems people are OK with paying more for faster internet, though
25 Feb 2021 | 93
FCC announces winners in $81bn 5G spectrum auction. Congrats to Verizon, which must cough up $45.4bn
AT&T and T-Mobile also have to write enormous cheques before March 24
25 Feb 2021 | 17
Singapore, Dell do a pandemic-era elbow bump, open IT giant's first-of-its-kind 'innovation hub' outside US
Island nation may become tech goliath's destination for 5G and edge research
25 Feb 2021 |
Is 5G truly 'green'? How can operators ensure greater network efficiency?
Sponsored 5G technologies aimed at significant energy efficiency improvements
24 Feb 2021 |
California’s net neutrality rules good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit
Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal
24 Feb 2021 | 14
HPE dips toe into OpenRAN 5G with a software platform and new iron to run it
Should be with carriers in the second quarter
24 Feb 2021 |
SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities
Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?
23 Feb 2021 | 142
Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC
Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane
23 Feb 2021 | 5
Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO
Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged
23 Feb 2021 | 54
House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US
Doomed bill seems to forget municipal broadband exists due to failures of private sector
19 Feb 2021 | 84
Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court
Worth a try, eh, chums?
19 Feb 2021 | 53
Dubai International Finance Centre accelerates its digital transformation to become the region's most advanced financial hub
Sponsored Huawei's CloudCampus helps to quickly roll out super capacity, intelligent, self-correcting network
18 Feb 2021 |
Cisco reveals a probe of 'self-enrichment scheme' involving ex-employees in China
Also lifts lid on allegations former workers paid staffers of 'state-owned enterprises'
18 Feb 2021 | 3
3 is the magic number? Openreach repayment project engineers add extra consecutive strike dates
18 months of dispute over new grading structure and counting...
18 Feb 2021 | 2
Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer
Well, that's a new one
18 Feb 2021 | 66
Mobile World Congress to run this year's Barcelona event in June with 50,000 attendees. We're speechless
And the COVID-19 precaution? A negative test 72 hours before
18 Feb 2021 | 55
Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'
De facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China's Great Firewall
18 Feb 2021 | 15
