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Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

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

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Linux 4.14 'getting very core new functionality' says Linus Torvalds

Google to kill Chrome autoplay madness

What's that, Equifax? Most people expect to be notified of a breach within hours?

European Commission proposes more powers for EU's infosec agency

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Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

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Google parks old pay-to-play auction in front of European Commission – reports

Ethereum will have transaction chops of Visa in 'a couple of years', founder claims

BoJo, don't misuse stats then blurt disclaimers when you get rumbled

Sprint, T-Mobile US reignite mega-merger talks (again)

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is hot, but not much more than the S8+

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Noise-canceling headphones with a DO NOT DISTURB light can't silence your critics

Geek's Guide

NASA Earthonauts emerge from eight-month isolation in simulated Mars visit

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

Rise Of the Tiny Machines: Boffins cook up autonomous DNA sorting robot

Why being 'boring' is a university AI spinout's route to success

Microsoft's AI is so good it steered Renault into bottom of the F1 league

Bank for central banks admits decentralised cryptocurrencies are a pretty good idea

Sure, HoloLens is cute, but Ford was making VR work before it was cool

Verity Stob

Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers

RIP Stanislav Petrov: Russian colonel who saved world from all-out nuclear war

Jon Hamm of Mad Men to lend his lungs to bounty hunter Boba Fett

A todger, a 2.5kg dumbbell, the fire brigade... and the inevitable angle grinder

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angry phone user

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is to introduce a series of measures to clamp down on providers' handling of nuisance calls, billing accuracy, general complaints handling and support for vulnerable customers.

Kat Hall, 19 Sep 2017

Man exasperated after being on hold for a long period of time. Photo by Shutterstock

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

EE has officially launched its legal challenge against Ofcom's spectrum proposals, a move prompted by Three's judicial review formally submitted earlier this month.

Kat Hall, 19 Sep 2017

Cisco's John Chambers to quit as exec chair

Southern belle to fly off into the sunset on the back of a drone

Sprint CEO straight out accuses Verizon counterpart of LYING

IN ALL CAPS, no less

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

Cloudflare Internet SummitStreaming operating systems, virtualizing base stations

123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration

www.howaboutno.co.uk, .uk, ... nope

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

Backscatter boffins get Things talking over kilometres

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

Lasers are too pricy, so we're using BLINKENLIGHTS instead

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

Mobile World CongressAll just part of a broader strategy

Gov claws back £645m in BT broadband from subsidy

What councils spend it on is another matter

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

Judge mulls whether to dismiss suit after ITC ruling

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

Indian call centre scammers are targeting BT customers

In some cases fraudsters knew their mark's personal details

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

I've been to Bali, via California

Three challenges UK watchdog to a duel over mobile spectrum rules

Networking vendors are good for free lunches, hopeless for networks

Electronic Arts tech director thinks tech-agnostic developers can build better networks than slave-to-vendor NetAdmins

Man benchpress weights.

Can your complex distributed systems take the weight?

PromoLearn how to stay strong

UK.gov unveils six areas to pilot full-fat fibre, and London ain't on the list

Scatters £10m across country out of £200m pot

NBN

nbn™ adds premises to FTTC, HFC, slims down FTTN build

Build will end in 2020, stay in the financial envelope.
We promise, really, truly

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DC court says Dish skirted rules in US airwave auction

No bid credits for sockpuppets, rules judge

EE!? The sound customers make when the interwebz don't work

Broadband's out nationwide, say frustrated Twitter folk

India responds to internet shutdown criticism... by codifying rules to make it legal

Bureaucracy embraces removing communications for millions of people

Telcos waive bills during Houston hurricane recovery

Carriers say they're holding up – more flooding is likely

Google routing blunder sent Japan's Internet dark on Friday

Another big BGP blunder

A LANnister always pays his subnets: Cisco hires Game of Thrones' Tyrion

Peter Dinklage takes Switchzilla's coin

Dell, BT alchemists turn bog-standard HW/SW to flexible, open networks

AnalysisPlaying the disaggregation game

British broadband is confusing and speeds are crap, says survey

See, it's not just Grant Shapps who gets it mixed up

D-Link in Pluribus-powered white box play to target enterprise sales

Netvisor gets a crack at the consumer and SME channel in new 54-port switch

Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

The DNS signing keys are changing for the first time

Verizon kicks out hot new Unlimited* plans

*By 'unlimited' they mean 'significantly limited'

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

UpdatedNot looking good for cheesed off customers

Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear

Trio squeezes a bit more life out of current-gen broadband standard

brontosaurus

Why does the market care so much about Cisco's security biz?

AnalysisIn the land of decline, sustainable growth is king

Vodafone customers moan about sluggish data abroad

No, non, nein says Brit telco's marketing bods, 'we don't throttle'

Man with megaphone

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

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

rat

South London: Rats! The rodents have killed the internet

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

Brit folk STILL not getting advertised broadband speeds – survey

The faster the claim, the bigger the disappointment

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