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The Full Spectrum
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again
Security Editor 29 Aug 2019The other day, the government announced yet another consultation on the future of the UK's digital networking infrastructure, this time exploring the possibility of liberalising the planning laws ...
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Huawei risks drowning as HarmonyOS heads for open waters
Security Editor 20 Aug 2019Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...
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John Suffolk's grilling by MPs exposes the tech industry's troubling amorality
Security Editor 11 Jun 2019In 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 ...
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, ...
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MWC 2019: Our planet is dying - is it time to ditch Mobile World Congress?
Security Editor 28 Feb 2019This 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 ...
Malaysia has become the latest country to look into the security concerns surrounding Huawei, which has been accused by mostly western powers of conducting corporate espionage and potentially ...
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 ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
O2 outage proves the weakest link in the digital revolution is fallibly human
Editor in chief 07 Dec 2018So it turns out the O2 mobile network failure that took out data access for some 30 million people this week, was caused by an expired software certificate – no great conspiracy, no programming ...
Being the world’s largest mobile market, China has unsurprisingly topped the charts when it comes to the growth in mobile data traffic. According to the latest figures from Ericsson, mobile data ...
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How churn is breaking the telecoms market – and what service providers can do about it
Security Editor 13 Aug 2018This 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 ...
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BT's network convergence strategy is a win: nobody's talking about full-fibre broadband today
Security Editor 16 May 2018After 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 ...
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When it comes to mobile spectrum, it's time for Three to get over itself
Security Editor 17 Jan 2018I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Tech shouldn’t reduce excitement of the ocean race even if drinking urine less likely
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Oct 2017The Volvo Ocean race is not only an amazing feat of human endurance but a herculean IT project
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At the FA Cup Final, Wembley goes beyond Wi-Fi for mobile coverage
Security Editor 25 May 2017In this guest blog, Anthony Sutton from Cobham Wireless discusses how venue owners can maximise visitor satisfaction by improving mobile network availability. It’s match day! You’ve managed to get ...
Inspect-a-Gadget reflects on how the heady days of smartphone innovation and excitement are long gone from Mobile World Congress 2017
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The digital economy and the Autumn Statement: Good start, please do more
Editor in chief 25 Nov 2016Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement showed a welcome and necessary understanding of the need to look at the long-term future of the UK’s digital economy. The £1bn ...
Now part of the HP (no, not the sauce) with an E for enterprise selection box, Aruba (minus its previous ‘Networks’ label) is keen to show us that it has some developer-worthy technologies to ...
There is no doubting the impact that software defined networking (SDN) is having in changing traditional approaches to connectivity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the WAN with software ...
The recent announcement that UK regulator Ofcom plans to make additional spectrum available for Wi-Fi is great news for consumers, writes DeviceScape's Dave Fraser. Because Wi-Fi operates in ...