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Discussing the latest news and views about networking, telecoms and broadband.
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John Suffolk's grilling by MPs exposes the tech industry's troubling amorality
- Networking Editor 11 Jun 2019 -
Is BT’s boss about to make his mark with new full-fibre targets?
- Networking Editor 08 May 2019 -
Cutting off the internet is a TERRIBLE idea, whether or not you agree with Extinction Rebellion
- Networking Editor 17 Apr 2019
In an astonishing and frankly unprecedented turn of events before the Science and Technology Select Committee this week, Huawei chief security officer John Suffolk was branded a "moral vacuum" by ...
BT’s new chief executive, Philip Jansen, is to revise Openreach’s targets for its full-fibre broadband network roll-out upwards when he reveals BT’s full-year financial results on Thursday 9 May, ...
Many people using the London Underground today will likely have noticed that the usual Virgin Media-run Wi-Fi service is not working. Some might even have been mildly inconvenienced by not being ...
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Is Avaya entertaining private equity bidders? I have déjà vu
- Networking Editor 26 Mar 2019 -
Remainers accidentally DDoS the British government
- Networking Editor 21 Mar 2019 -
MWC 2019: Robots, robots and robots, oh my!
- Networking Editor 04 Mar 2019 -
MWC 2019: Our planet is dying - is it time to ditch Mobile World Congress?
- Networking Editor 28 Feb 2019 -
Yes. All homes WILL need gigabit broadband speeds!
- Networking Editor 08 Jan 2019 -
Airwave goodbye, hello ESN
- Networking Editor 10 Dec 2018 -
How the IoT can form part of a targeted approach to infrastructure asset management
- Networking Editor 22 Oct 2018
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. It's a handy quote for all occasions - whether or not you believe Albert Einstein ever ...
With eight days until the UK's scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world ...
All the world loves robots, and when they are robots holding something a human might hold, doing an activity a human might do, and preferably doing it while looking a bit like a human (two legs, ...
This year, my flight from London's Stansted Airport to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, plus two days of hour-and-a-half commutes through horrendous traffic between my hotel and the conference ...
As the UK's full-fibre broadband roll-out gathers pace through 2018 and into 2019, many people continue to believe gigabit services are unnecessary overkill. CityFibre's Caroline Hughes reckons ...
The government recently announced plans that – despite facing delays and setbacks – a new Emergency Services Network (ESN) will be phased in from the beginning of 2019. It will replace the legacy ...
This is a guest blog by Manish Jethwa, CTO at IoT specialist Yotta Our national infrastructure assets are under more strain than ever. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK ...
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Will SDN replace MPLS? Not so fast
- Networking Editor 19 Oct 2018 -
How churn is breaking the telecoms market – and what service providers can do about it
- Networking Editor 13 Aug 2018 -
The hunt is on for a new BT CEO, but who would fill Gavin Patterson's shoes?
- Networking Editor 08 Jun 2018 -
BT's network convergence strategy is a win: nobody's talking about full-fibre broadband today
- Networking Editor 16 May 2018 -
Do ISPs need to do more to protect their users from scams?
- Networking Editor 11 May 2018
This is a guest blog post by Tony Judd, MD UKI and Benelux at Verizon With the popularity of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and ...
This is a guest blog post by Brendan O’Rourke, head of design at BriteBill, an Amdocs company. It’s no secret that today’s customers are more demanding than previous generations. They share their ...
Facing negative PR all around after announcing a strategic realignment that is to see 13,000 employees made redundant and the closure of its central London HQ after over 100 years, even the good ...
After yet another set of lacklustre earnings and with over 10,000 staff facing the axe, embattled BT CEO Gavin Patterson needed a quick win. Today's launch of new consumer offerings from both BT ...
Are Britain’s internet service providers (ISPs) coming up short when it comes to helping their less tech-savvy users protect themselves against the scourge of telephone scams and online fraud? In a ...