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Openreach offers duct-off providers 'OSA Filter' instead of Dark Fibre Access

Part of the opening of the network
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18 Oct 13:56

Full-fibre ISP Hyperoptic clocked over mock doc schlock shock

Advert looked too much like a BT contract, says watchdog
18 Oct 11:33

UK.gov: Who wants £25m... *cheers*... to trial 5G? *crickets chirping*

If we start now, we might be better at it than Albania
12 Comments
16 Oct 10:28

Grant Shapps of coup shame fame stands by 'broadbad' research

InterviewOr was it David Green or Sebastian Fox?
49 Comments
16 Oct 08:44

Cisco's ACI adds multi-site support, multi-cloud coming next year

Kubernetes-coralled containers also get the software-defined networking policy treatment
13 Oct 06:27

Juniper warns of bitter 3rd quarter due to cloud sales crash

The cloud market's going nuts and Juniper rode it in Q1 and Q2. So what's wrong now?
13 Oct 01:49

You may not have noticed, but 'superfast' broadband is available to 94% of Blighty

Fivemiletown, Northern Ireland, ambles at a stately 1.2Mbps
67 Comments
09 Oct 11:03

Cisco sells data virtualization unit to Tibco

Bought in 2013, disposed of in 2017 due to misalignment with 'long-term focus'
09 Oct 03:57

He's no good for you! Ofcom wants to give folk powers to dump subpar broadband contracts

It's not you, it's m- ... No, wait, it's totally you
44 Comments
06 Oct 10:32

Intelsat and Intel reckon satellite spectrum could help with 5G's coming capacity crunch

Farmers can keep it, but cities' spectrum scarcity needs a fix
05 Oct 04:01

Russian telco backs up North Korea's sole Internet link

Transtelecom can reach 256 North Korean hosts
27 Comments
04 Oct 07:02

WTH is my domain? OpenSRS and Hover DOWN and OUT

UpdatedNetwork failure forces punters' websites offline
29 Sep 11:40
Binary data/big data conceptual illustration. Illustration via Shutterstock

Business hunches are so 1977. Proper data's a lot more grown-up

SponsoredFighting the instinct vs analytics wars
28 Sep 15:22

'Alternative network provider' CityFibre boosts sales 36%

But elsewhere experiences contract delays
28 Sep 12:36
Schematic of entangled photons

Boffins sling around entangled photons at telco wavelengths

1550 nanometres is the sweetest sweet spot
15 Comments
28 Sep 04:02

Opinion

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
Hanging on photo via Shutterstock

Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

Open Source InsiderMozilla runs counter to Valley narrative
230 Comments
25 Jul 08:52
couple with two mobile phones - porting numbers.

UK mobile number porting creaks: Arcane system shows its age

CommentAny, sorry, many ports in a storm...
57 Comments
20 Jul 11:41
Facebook emojis

Facebook's whitebox-all-the-network-things TIP project flexes tentacles

CommentPlus BT evaluates startups. Good luck, network kit giants
28 Jun 08:01

News

nbn™ sweetens the deal for business and its own bottom line

UpdatedMirrors price relief offered to consumer market
27 Sep 02:25

UK third worst in Europe for fibre-to-the-premises – report

Openreach stuck on upgrading legacy copper-based network
63 Comments
26 Sep 11:42

Fog lifts as standards bodies agree on fog compute interoperability

ETSI and OpenFog agree not to disagree, or overlap
26 Sep 03:55

The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Two other big brands, Sky and BT, also in the naughty corner
99 Comments
22 Sep 10:02

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

In 2018 'MAREA' will move ads and Azure from USA to Spain at 160 terabits per second
54 Comments
22 Sep 07:28

Nothing to see here, folks, literally... Citrix mysteriously pulls NetScaler downloads

Builds yanked offline for a week in bug riddle
21 Sep 18:44

Chief digital officer and sales director leave O2 amid ongoing shake-up

Roles yet to be filled
21 Sep 08:02

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

Also wants to extend consumer protection to cover more broadband services
41 Comments
19 Sep 13:54

Now EE's challenging UK regulator's mobile spectrum proposals

Joins Three in telling Ofcom: See you in court
19 Sep 12:44

Cisco's John Chambers to quit as exec chair

Southern drawler to fly off into sunset on back of a drone
18 Sep 16:24

Sprint CEO straight out accuses Verizon counterpart of LYING

IN ALL CAPS, no less
15 Sep 19:34

How to stop Facebook and Apple taking over the mobile phone industry

Cloudflare Internet SummitStreaming operating systems, virtualizing base stations
15 Comments
14 Sep 20:33
woman looks at you like you're an idiot. Photo by shutterstock

123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration

www.howaboutno.co.uk, .uk, ... nope
112 Comments
14 Sep 12:26
Washington University sensor as a skin patch

Chirpy, chirpy, cheap, cheap: Printable IoT radios for 10 cents each

Backscatter boffins get Things talking over kilometres
32 Comments
14 Sep 07:20
LED icon

Boffins' satcomms rig uses earthly LEDs to talk to orbiting PV panels

Lasers are too pricy, so we're using BLINKENLIGHTS instead
24 Comments
13 Sep 03:56

Chill out about net neutrality, says FCC head, because mobile phones are great

Mobile World CongressAll just part of a broader strategy
13 Comments
12 Sep 22:47
A hand squeezing juice from an orange

Gov claws back £645m in BT broadband from subsidy

What councils spend it on is another matter
31 Comments
11 Sep 08:38

Arista describes Cisco's IP defence in antitrust case as 'insane'

Judge mulls whether to dismiss suit after ITC ruling
08 Sep 12:29
Angry old man

Scottish pensioners rage at Virgin cabinet blocking their view

Who needs sunlight when you've got Netflix?

TalkTalk plans to bail on mobile in major shake-up for beleaguered biz

Three reported to be 'interested' in a deal
29 Comments
06 Sep 15:04
BT Tower photo via Shutterstock

Indian call centre scammers are targeting BT customers

In some cases fraudsters knew their mark's personal details
138 Comments
06 Sep 08:32
Submarine cable join

Australia-to-Asia traffic slows as typhoons cut submarine cables

I've been to Bali, via California
05 Sep 23:41
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