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Big Cable tells US government: Now's not the time to talk about internet speeds – just give us the money

FCC's 5G masterstroke little more than big biz cash giveaway – expert

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Big Cable tells US government: Now's not the time to talk about internet speeds – just give us the money

Big cable companies have told the federal government that "now's not the time" to talk about US internet speeds; despite a new program that will pay them billions of dollars to expand broadband access across the country, and a new proposal that put even more money in their pockets.

Kieren McCarthy, 19 Sep 2018

FCC's 5G masterstroke little more than big biz cash giveaway – expert

The latest effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand 5G networks across the United States is little more than a cash giveaway to large telcos and will grow, rather than close, the digital divide.

Kieren McCarthy, 19 Sep 2018

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Vodafone sues Ofcom to reclaim 'overpaid' mobe spectrum fees

EE set it up, now Voda's shooting for goal

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DNSSEC in a click: Cloudflare tries to crack uptake inertia

Meanwhile global key rollover is confirmed for October 11

This is the blockchain. Yes, THE blockchain

Cloudflare invites folk to dabble in the 'distributed web' with InterPlanetary File System gateway

Five billion pages on open-source project, just like the original World Wide Web

Microsoft pulls plug on IPv6-only Wi-Fi network over borked VPN fears

Plus: Sysadmin sets up public shaming site for IPv4 laggards

Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok

Who, Me?College should've stuck to departmental nomenclature

The internet – not as great as we all thought it was going to be, eh?

Number of netizens in favor of the web drops, according to latest US study

US govt confirms FCC's broadband speeds and feeds stats are garbage

GAO report on tribal land may open up rigged system

Profits diving? All part of the plan, says Juniper Networks beancounter

Just wait till 400Gbps Ethernet boxen start shifting...

Like tax? Love networks? UK taxmen have a job just for you

Public sector money crew wants a head of networks just in time for Brexit

Milton Keynes: Come for roundabouts, stay for near-gigabit broadband

Aberdeen and Peterborough to follow in Vodafone scheme

Vodafone cops ads rap over Martin Freeman's vanishing spaceship

Thou shalt not use sync speeds instead of throughput speeds, decrees Brit watchdog

Non-profits push back against Big Cable's bumpkin broadband blueprint for America

Monopoly or competition? Guess which one is winning

Look at me! Phone industry contracts nasty case of 5g-itis

Our 5G is bigger and better than theirs, promise Ericsson, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T

America-China tariff tiff could flip the switch on Cisco price hikes

Chief exec warns Prez Trump's proposed soaring import charges will hit biz, customers

Guys, geez... finally 5Gs: AT&T grows super-fast mobile net city rollout

More American cities will get super-fast mobile internet

Hungry, hungry network firms: Ericsson, NXP chow down, Ciena on the prowl

Also: New gear out, plus ENISA overlooks squirrels

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Y'know what? VoIP can also be free from pesky regulation – US judges

It may be a phone service but it's over 'the internet,' so yeah, f**k me, right?

Palo Alto Networks' new boss hints at borging rivals as losses shrink

And they're sitting on a giant cash pile, much to chief exec Nikesh Arora's glee

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Make BGP great again, er, no, for the first time: NIST backs internet route security brainwave

It's always a good idea to know who you're talking to

Huawei wants to print data centres for telcos to fling at governments

ShapeCloud scheme to build bit barns on demand

Belfast's networks are hella fast, London's are in the bog

Northern Ireland capital is tops for just about everything mobile

Juniper, Ericsson sign 5G product pact

Pour an aquavit, pour a gin, take a deeeep breath ...

Oz carrier Vocus rushes cable into service following SMW-3 break

First light for Australia-Singapore Cable

Strewth! Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses

When the bottom line gets bashed, priorities change

5G can help us spy on West Midlands with AI CCTV, giggles UK.gov

£50m connectivity tech trial announcement marred by Panopticon-style horror

BT scoops Home Counties chunk of new NHS IT contract

Competition is great, especially when the new contract's run by the old contractors

Cisco patches yet another Data Centre Network Manager vuln

Good news is that it was just a proof of concept... we hope

Good news, bad news, weird news – it's the week in networking

Air traffic messages over the Internet? All this and more

Can a script kiddie pwn your SD-WAN? Better check the config, friend

Unpatched, outdated software abounds, say researchers

Huawei pleads with FCC to overturn US ban, says it's 'anticompetitive'

While Japan mulls own action against Chinese comms giant

Man with headphones intercepts data

No D'oh! DNS-over-HTTPS passes Mozilla performance test

Privacy-protecting domain name system standard closer

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Europe's GDPR, Whois shakeup was supposed to trigger spam tsunami – so, er, where is it?

UpdatedNo catastrophe after hardline privacy rules kick in

UK.gov flings £95m at public sector superfast broadband rollouts

Local council or NHS? Step right this way. Not you, SMEs

Hammer, spanner and screw

Cisco Meraki kills the dongle star, adds SD-WAN to branch and teleworker kit

Docking stations were a pain, because people trip on cables

Speed

Juniper prepping for a 400 Gbps Ethernet world

InterviewEVP Manoj Leelanivas talks to El Reg

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We've found another problem with IPv6: It's sparked a punch-up between top networks

AnalysisPeering rows lead to traffic turbulence – report

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