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Internet infrastructure

• October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17

  Ofcom adds new protections for consumer broadband buyers

  ISPs will have to provide more detailed information on the range of broadband speeds customers are likely to receive during the buying process

• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Executive interview: Karno Tenovuo, senior vice-president, ship intelligence, Rolls-Royce

  Rolls-Royce is developing autonomous ships, and the company’s senior vice-president of ship intelligence discusses how shipping will change

• September 29, 2017 29 Sep'17

  Sweden investigates introducing its own e-currency

  Nordic country’s central bank is planning for a future e-currency as cash becomes less relevant

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  EC threatens legislation if tech companies fail to act on terrorism and hate speech

  European Commission adds to growing political pressure on technology companies by threatening legislation if they fail to remove terrorist posts and hate speech from the internet quickly

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Grosvenor signs broadband investment deal for London’s West End

  Landowner and property developer has signed a co-investment partnership with Openreach to address poor broadband connectivity standards in parts of the capital

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Large scale IoT deployments double in 12 months

  Vodafone’s fifth annual look at the IoT market reveals that the percentage of companies with more than 50,000 connected devices has effectively doubled in the past year

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  UK spending on subscription services triples in a year

  Almost all UK adults subscribe to services for products they would traditionally pay for up front

• September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17

  European operators still heavily reliant on copper for broadband delivery

  A report commissioned for the European Commission has revealed that although access to broadband is improving across the EU, operators are still focusing their energies on sweating old copper assets

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Connected bees create a buzz at Manchester startup hub

  Cisco and Manchester Science Partnerships have opened a new startup incubator in the city to foster innovation in the Northern Powerhouse, and the humble honeybee is taking centre stage

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  FSA connects 220 abattoirs to fibre for food safety monitoring

  Food Standards Agency picks Exponential-e to revitalise connectivity across 220 sites as it strives to improve operational efficiency and compliance processes

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  Brexit mobile and broadband debate must involve consumers

  The voices of consumers are being missed as communications services providers, industry bodies and the government set the agenda for the UK’s communications infrastructure market after Brexit

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  BMW opens its second tech startup programme in the UK

  BMW has launched its latest programme to support tech startups in the UK

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  PM pressures internet companies to act on terrorist propaganda

  The UK, France and Italy will use a meeting with technology companies at the UN General Assembly in New York to press for development of technical solutions to defeat terrorist activity on the internet

• September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17

  John Chambers to step down as Cisco executive chairman

  Former CEO John Chambers will leave the networking sector kingpin after 27 years, supplier reveals

• September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17

  Outlook outage: Microsoft blames European Hotmail downtime on load-balancing fault

  Microsoft claims connectivity issues that blighted Outlook and Hotmail users for much of Monday 18 September have now been largely resolved