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Brit mobile phone users want the Moon on a stick but then stay on same networks for aeons

How does that work?
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18 Jun 10:19

Google cuts price of cloudy interconnects from partners

If you can't get to a POP yourself, this plan's for you
18 Jun 06:28

Do NetAdmins like snacks? Asking cos here's a dish of tasty network news nibbles

RoundupJuniper's new routers emerge, Google QUIC-ens gets load balancing for HTTPS and more
17 Jun 22:41

Dinosaurs permitted to mate: But what does AT&T Time merger mean for antitrust – and you?

AnalysisCord-cutters swung the court
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14 Jun 08:30

Oracle launches its very own 'net threat map

Pew! Pew! The whole world is connected, and the Internet is super-dangerous
14 Jun 01:01

Thought the AT&T Time-Warner tie-up was scary? Comcast says 'hold my beer'

American cable giant offers $65bn for 21st Century Fox
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14 Jun 00:00

AT&T gets clearance to devour Time Warner for $85 BEEEELION

DOJ can't stop mega-merger from going through
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12 Jun 23:57

Men are officially the worst… top-level domain

It's paining men as Spamhaus lists the top abused registries
39 Comments
12 Jun 20:22

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins preaches the cloud, but nothing new

Cisco LiveSwitchzilla's annual gabfest goes over old ground on day one
12 Jun 06:01

Worst. Birthday. Ever. IPv6's party falls flat

RoundupIn this weeks networking news, switches surged, Riverbed monitored and the MEF standardised
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10 Jun 22:01

Comcast's mega-outage 'solution'... Have you tried turning your router off and on again?

UpdatedUS ISP giant claims service has been restored for most users
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07 Jun 19:05

Plans for half of Europeans to get 100Mbps by 2020 ain't gonna happen – report

EU auditors also reckon universal 30Mbps unlikely
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07 Jun 15:53

EE seeks guinea pig millennial hipsters for 5G experiments

Calling all Bongs – this won't hurt a bit
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07 Jun 08:04
vint cerf

Stern Vint Cerf blasts techies for lackluster worldwide IPv6 adoption

Father of the Internet not impressed with slow rollout
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06 Jun 20:00

Cloudflare experiments with hidden Tor services

Matt Prince sets a daemon to work with the onions
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06 Jun 04:57

Opinion

Boy with binoculars photo via Shutterstock

Web searching died the day they invented SEO

Something for the Weekend, Sir?The truth is out there but you'll never find it

Ed Vaizey is right, Matt Hancock hasn't improved broadband

Comment'Hancock pinched all my ideas' jokes former digi minister
23 Nov 12:15
SDN software-defined networking

Google's software-defined network – and its significance – both just accelerated

The SDN industry – ahem – admires Google and will learn from this, to your benefit
09 Nov 08:32

Welcome to the Rise of the Machine-to-Machine. Isn't it time to 'block off' some data ducts?

Sysadmin blogIsolation-based security is getting important
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01 Aug 13:58

News

Great time to shift bytes: International bandwidth prices are in free fall

Prices on cables plummeting over the past three years, according to number crunchers
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06 Jun 02:59

nbn™ CEO didn't mean to offend gamers, just brand them unwelcome bandwidth-hogs

Actually, it's about ethics in network concurrency
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06 Jun 01:14

US govt mulls snatching back full control of the internet's domain name and IP address admin

ICANN or ICANN'T be trusted? Uncle Sam wants to know
47 Comments
05 Jun 21:30

You blithering Ajit! Huawei burns Pai for FCC sh*tlist proposal

American broadband bossman's ban plan panned
29 Comments
04 Jun 23:49

nbn™ ponders a gamers' gate to throttle heavy wireless users

Using your service as advertised? How dare you!
21 Comments
04 Jun 23:43

IETF wants packets to prove where they've been, to improve trust

Virtualisation is creating traffic handoffs that don't depend on physical ports
17 Comments
04 Jun 02:58

Packet mix cake is yum! And so is this mix of packet-related news

ROUNDUPNetwork news covering cloud, a breach at Netgear's spin-out, plus Red Hat wraps Ribbon and more
03 Jun 23:01

Internet engineers tear into United Nations' plan to move us all to IPv6

Flawed beyond repair, utterly broken, critically endangers the web – and that's the good news
167 Comments
30 May 20:46

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

ExclusiveMillions could be spent extending today's tech until some 'future date'
103 Comments
30 May 11:42

America's comms watchdog takes on the internet era's real criminals: Pirate pastors

And helps cable industry tackle scourge of streaming boxes
56 Comments
25 May 21:38

Cisco admins: Hold that IOS XR update while you get new software

UpdateOld components can freeze new NCS 6000 cards running old code
25 May 05:55

UK chancellor puts finger in air, promises 15 million full fibre connections by 2025

Goal to be achieved not with government cash, but 'market conditions'
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23 May 10:58
kennedy

Senator Kennedy: Why I cast my Senate-busting vote for net neutrality

He's pro free market – but there isn't one among America's ISPs
27 Comments
22 May 19:39
Battleship by Darwin Brandis from Shutterstock

Router admin? Bored? Let's play Battleships using BGP!

Protocol how-to turns into
EPIC AS-vs-AS SLUGOUT
25 Comments
22 May 06:03
Facebook-style hands shake

Qualcomm readies 60GHz goodies for Facebook's Terragraph

Also unveils silicon for 5G NR small cells, because big rigs will drown on traffic any year now
22 May 01:29
Couple of slow-coach snails

IPv6 growth is slowing and no one knows why. Let's see if El Reg can address what's going on

AnalysisGet it? Address? As in, oh never mind
208 Comments
21 May 21:23
Australia with ethernet cable

Telstra's mobile networks go TOESUP* in national outage

UpdatedThat's 'Total Outage Ends Support for Usual Performance', natch
13 Comments
21 May 01:41
suits clapping

Look how modern we are! UK network Three to kill off 3G-only phones

'An industry-leading approach'
54 Comments
18 May 14:15

Brit ISPs get their marker pens out: Speed advertising's about to change

Oh dear, fewer than half of punters get what they paid for

Seriously, Cisco? Another hard-coded password? Sheesh

RoundupIn other nets news Qualcomm secures Wi-Fi, and mesh nets get a spec
21 Comments
18 May 03:57
upset man looks at paper in front of laptop

1.5m Brits pay too much for mobile and crappy broadband – Ofcom

Wake up, people!
32 Comments
17 May 15:58
Roadworks: fibre optic cable being laid

It's true – it really is grim up north, thanks to Virgin Media. ISP fined for Carlisle cable chaos

VM told to cough up £385k after rocking up and rocking Brit city
61 Comments
17 May 10:20
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