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The new legislation forcing telcos and internet companies to store your metadata for two years creates a new set of secuirty risks.
Ever since BT was privatised there have been calls to break it up. But with the steps Ofcom has already taken, it’s not clear there’s any benefit for consumers.
Tell those living in the countryside about the government’s promised “right to fast internet” and they’ll show you 10 years of similar, unmet promises.
Can the NSA and GCHQ really listen to your phone? Should we be concerned if they could?
This open internet debate isn’t the first time the government has wrestled with the question of how to apportion rights between private media owners and the public.
The FCC proposal could prevent content discrimination but wouldn’t solve the main problem: most rules governing the web are 80 years old.
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
BT is planning to swallow mobile phone provider EE for £12.5 billion, a deal that will bring together Britain’s largest fixed-line telco and broadband provider with the country’s largest mobile phone network…
On November 22, the national police non-emergency 101 and the NHS 111 services suffered disruption as a result of a technical fault in the Vodafone national network. This meant that people wishing to report…
The news that BT is in talks to buy either the O2 or EE mobile phone operators comes as no surprise. The UK telecoms market is one of the most competitive and regulated in the world and with traditional…
Those words on the screen, “No signal”, are even more annoying when there’s no signal for you, but others are still connected. Wouldn’t it be better if phones simply switched to a different network to…
Telstra’s plans to rollout Australia’s largest Wi-Fi network over the next five years involves asking existing customers to allow part of their broadband connection to be used as hotspots. More than two…
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has not ruled out a proposal by the expert panel reviewing the telecommunications industry to break up and sell off parts of NBN Co. However Mr Turnbull, responding…
With the roll-out of 4G mobile internet not even yet complete, it might seem early to consider starting work on the design of the next, fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. The truth is that telecoms…
The writing has been on the wall for Phones4U for a while now. The rapid decline into administration will be bad news for workers and customers but in truth, the company didn’t help it’s own cause as the…
Joaquin Almunia’s job is to defend the European single market. It falls to him to decide whether telecom operators should be allowed to merge. His competition commission recently cleared Telefonica Deutschland’s…
Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, the world’s second richest man, has announced he intends to break up his América Móvil telecoms empire to comply with anti-trust reforms introduced by the country’s…
The Post Office has announced plans to launch a mobile phone service later this year. It’s a tough market to break into, however, with big supermarket chains already offering similar services. For most…
Nokia has announced its new strategy. The Finish technology company will focus on the infrastructure business that keeps our mobile lives operating smoothly and will continue to chase opportunities in…
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