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UpdatedVirgin Media is seemingly suffering a series of outages accross the country, with aggrieved customers using alternate methods to air their ire at the telco.

Gareth Corfield, 22 Aug 2017

UK industry mouthpiece wants 'near-universal' broadband speeds of 30Mbps by 2020

Says gov needs to 'collaborate' with industry. Now there's a surprise...

58 Comments

14 Aug 09:03

South London: Rats! The rodents have killed the internet

Murine mouths mangle broadband - outage hits Gnaw-wood...

55 Comments

11 Aug 09:28

Brit folk STILL not getting advertised broadband speeds – survey

The faster the claim, the bigger the disappointment

29 Comments

10 Aug 12:56

London 'not-spots' look out! Mayor wants team to tackle crap signal

Also appears to take credit for 4G-on-Tube plans

12 Comments

10 Aug 12:11

Brits look at Google and Facebook every 210 seconds, says survey

Go on, count them. Bet you can't resist now we've said that

27 Comments

09 Aug 14:01

Big Switch, HPE, in 'You complete me. No, you complete me' tryst

Dell's still got more network OS options, but as anyone who remembers NetWare vs. NT can tell you, a NOS war is fun

09 Aug 04:07

Mediocre Britain: UK broadband ranked 31st in world for speed

Behind Bulgaria and Romania. But spare a thought for Yemen

74 Comments

08 Aug 09:04

Big question of the day: Is it time to lock down .localhost?

IETF considering making a new .onion

38 Comments

08 Aug 00:21

Internet's backroom boffins' big brainwave: Put people first in future

IETF draft hopes to balance netizens' needs and corporate interests in future standards

16 Comments

03 Aug 21:06

Another slice of Brocade carved off: Mavenir buys packet core business

Only the smile remained

03 Aug 02:02

Post Office puts stamp on ISP minnow Fuel

Acquisition marks move away from snail mail to broadband

14 Comments

02 Aug 15:20

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

20 Comments

01 Aug 13:58

Dirty carbon nanotubes offer telcos chance at secure quantum comms

Room-temperature single-photon-emitter boosts conventional networks

15 Comments

01 Aug 04:58

Football goes into the net/ photo by shutterstock

Brace yourselves, Virgin Media prices are going up AGAIN, people

Even students set to feel the wallet burn from August

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31 Jul 08:39

Australia's .au internet registry chair quits amid no-confidence vote

AnalysisPeculiar goings-on at auDA – we look under the covers and follow the money

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29 Jul 00:02

Opinion

News

Sysadmin Day 2017: Still time to get the beers in

70% of IT workers risk burnout: Don't let that be you. Pub. Now!

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28 Jul 11:18

After we ran our article about the fate of .sk, the nation of Slovakia flew into a rage. And now, here's part two...

AnalysisBehind the scenes of a battle to control a ccTLD

33 Comments

28 Jul 05:04

Cisco bugs leave network automation vulnerable to attack

Packet snooping, certificate slip, and denial-of-service

27 Jul 07:01

Virgin Media's profanity warning triggered by chief exec's name

Cook, Pass, Mockridge

64 Comments

26 Jul 11:24

O2 admits to throttling network bandwidth for EU data roamers

'Temporary measure' to cope with demand, apparently

41 Comments

26 Jul 08:02

The drinks are on Juniper: Revenue and profits up in Q2 2017

It woz the switches and the cloud wot done it – sales of both soared

26 Jul 02:58

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

226 Comments

25 Jul 08:52

UK ministers' Broadband '2.0' report confuses superfast with 10Mbps

Availability is not take-up. Must do better. See us after class

86 Comments

24 Jul 08:22

Bluetooth makes a mesh of itself with new spec

Up to 32,000 nodes without routers in the middle and battery life measured in years

10 Comments

21 Jul 02:58

UK mobile number porting creaks: Arcane system shows its age

CommentAny, sorry, many ports in a storm...

57 Comments

20 Jul 11:41

Deutsche Telekom G.fast demo pushes G.Fast faster, further

Interview: Sckipio explains what carriers will like about cDTA

20 Jul 04:05

TalkTalk posts 3% sales drop, says Openreach should walk the WalkWalk

Will 'engage practically' with former BT arm

18 Comments

19 Jul 11:13

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, 4G: Tube comms trials for emergency crews

But bosses can't promise it will be fully complete on time

12 Comments

19 Jul 07:58

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

AnalysisTo succeed, operators need fibre, NFV, legacy kit and radio

13 Comments

18 Jul 10:04

Man looks at his mobile - mildly surprised or shocked about something. Photo by shutterstock

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

18 Comments

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

58 Comments

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

Datacenter deep dives

Spotlight

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

Australia's .au internet registry chair quits amid no-confidence vote

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

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

Millimetre wave.. omigerd it's going nowherrr.. Apple, you say?

Business types meditate in green field. Photo via Shutterstock

Nice guy NetApp's adopting 'disruptive' tech non-disruptively

'Other' may yet become the biggest and most useful cloud

Got that syncing feeling? Cloud's client-side email problem

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