Comcast has successfully moved from managing the pipes to owning the content as well, all the while pushing the legal envelope as far as it can.
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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.
The need for net neutrality regulations in the US speaks volumes about competition in the land of the free market.
Can the NSA and GCHQ really listen to your phone? Should we be concerned if they could?
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
BlackBerry, once the must-have device for the sweaty palms of executives and wannabe executives everywhere, has seen its global share of the smartphone market fall to below 1%. So would you still buy this…
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…
Telephone companies have yet again announced inflation-busting increases in telephone line rental charges. Why, in a world that is increasingly mobile-first – or even mobile-only – are we still paying…
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…
The events in Hong Kong have seen technology play a huge role in organising political protest, as much as in the days of the Arab Spring of 2011. But governments have become wise to the potential influence…
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…
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