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5G is not just a radio: Welcome to the fibre-tastic new mobile world

AnalysisTo succeed, operators need fibre, NFV, legacy kit and radio
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18 Jul 10:04

Thanks for U-turning on biz-killing ban, Ofcom – now cough up, say GSM gateway bods

Brit regulator urged to fork out tens of millions in compo
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18 Jul 08:37

Openreach asks UK what it thinks about 10 million 'full fibre' connections

Friendly near-monopoly wants to work with industry, honest
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18 Jul 07:48

Multi-gig broadband spec passes interop test at Verizon

Five vendors help virtualize access network functions
16 Jul 23:59

Cisco gobbles up security cloud upstart Observable Networks

Switchzilla needs its five startups a day
13 Jul 18:44

Ofcom creates watchdog specifically to make sure Openreach is behaving

'We're watching you,' warns regulator
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13 Jul 12:19

Juniper admins: Grab your bug-zappers and load 22 rounds

Patch flood includes fix for hard-coded creds and access-all-areas XSS firewall flaw
13 Jul 02:03

Openreach kicks off 'rebrand' by painting over BT logo on vans

Full transition to take four years
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11 Jul 11:18

European Telecoms Standards Institute emits mobile edge APIs

Mobile base stations have compute. These APIs will let you tap it
10 Jul 04:58

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

Old-skool addresses worth about $400,000 at auction
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07 Jul 20:04

Virgin Media biz service goes TITSUP* across London

Borough councils hit due to a 'fibre break'
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07 Jul 11:31

Brit unis bunged £16m in gov cash for 5G test

Part of £700m investment pot that will also go on 'full fibre'
07 Jul 11:29
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Virgin Media admits it 'fell short' in broadband speeds ahead of lashing from BBC's Watchdog

And staff on chopping block unhappy with internal comms
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05 Jul 12:34

UK.gov tips £400m into digital investment pot

'Now you can watch Game of Thrones in peace'
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03 Jul 07:02
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Virgin Media to close flagship Oxford St store in August

ExclusiveOne of 30 Brit branches to be shut due to 'shift to online'
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30 Jun 13:00

Opinion

couple with two mobile phones - porting numbers.

UK mobile number porting creaks: Arcane system shows its age

CommentAny, sorry, many ports in a storm...
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Facebook's whitebox-all-the-network-things TIP project flexes tentacles

CommentPlus BT evaluates startups. Good luck, network kit giants
28 Jun 08:01
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Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G

CommentMobile natives are getting restless
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15 Jun 08:32
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EU wins approval to waste €120m on pitiful public Wi-Fi

Opinion€120m for the bin...
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05 Jun 08:01

News

Virgin Media cuts 250 jobs amid £3bn Project Lightning cockup fallout

None of today's P45 recipients will be directors, say sources
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30 Jun 10:31

London suffers from 'sub-standard' connectivity - report

Worse than York, which is 'frankly embarrassing'
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29 Jun 11:45

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

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

FCC: LEO ISPs A-OK

OneWeb gets green light to pipe internet through 720 orbiting satellites
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23 Jun 22:11

Let's go live to the 3rd circle of Hell – and see what Comcast and Charter are screwing up

Allegations of digging up rivals' cables, breaking promises
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22 Jun 20:52

Research suggests UK consumers find 'fibre' advertising misleading

Alt-net providers call for ads to be reviewed
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22 Jun 11:54

Yes, this is our third Cisco story of the day. It's about 23 bugs you need to fix, stat

Troll your WebEx-loving execs with a crafted recording file
22 Jun 07:02

Cisco's 'encrypted traffic fingerprinting' turned into a product

Borg's boxen can now figure out if there's malware lurking in encrypted traffic
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22 Jun 04:57

Arista-cats nearly out of the bag as redesigned products okayed

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again
22 Jun 01:02

TalkTalk customers complain of being unable to load Amazon website

Issue ongoing since last week
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21 Jun 14:54

Costa Rica complains of US govt harassment over Pirate Bay domain

Registry operator points finger at US embassy staffer
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20 Jun 20:08

Cisco hops on machine learning bandwagon with new switches

Switchzilla wants to make 'intuitive' switches that charge you by the month
20 Jun 19:54

Microsoft says Skype outages are over – a few hours too early

Global Skype outages spill over onto a second day
20 Jun 18:48
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Juniper puts an Enforcer on the door and adds Cisco to the guest list

The gin palace's security management code has gone cross-platform
20 Jun 01:58
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Israel gets spooky with national quantum lab

Plan is to spin up single photons as a comms medium
19 Jun 06:34
Man looking up spiral staircase inside deltalis mountain data centre

Internet boffins take aim at BGP route leaks

Routers should know their place
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19 Jun 03:57

Ofcom fines Three £1.9m over vulnerability in emergency call handling

999 requests funnelled through single data centre
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16 Jun 09:01

Openreach to comms providers: Why can't we be friends?

Reformed monopoly wants to 'get much closer' to partners
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15 Jun 15:13
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Now you can 'roam like at home' within the EU, but what's the catch?

And what about Brexit, huh?
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Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G

CommentMobile natives are getting restless
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15 Jun 08:32

Small carriers aren't showing up to IPv6 standards chats, consultant warns

And that means useful stuff could be left out of customer premises equipment
21 Comments
15 Jun 02:58
Nokia's FP4 silicon

Nokia snatches clump of 16nm FinFETs, crafts 576 Tbps monster router

That's a lot of porn
14 Jun 16:35
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