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• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  EU broadband challengers warn of fixed connectivity monopolies

  Non-incumbent EU fixed broadband providers raise alarm at proposed legislation, insisting that regulatory certainty is needed to drive investment in connectivity

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say

  A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  Fleet-wide Starlink Wi-Fi takes off at Virgin Atlantic

  Elon Musk-led satellite operator engaged to provide leading UK airline with ‘the fastest, most reliable connectivity in the sky’ with ‘no-charge’ streaming quality and gate-to-gate connectivity in all cabins

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  Three-quarters of UK champion continued broadband infrastructure investment

  Study from trade association for organisations building and delivering UK’s internet services finds almost half of Brits would sooner give up the gym than lose web access, but also highlights a need for real partnership and bolder action to bridge ...

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  Altnet calls on UK comms regulator to prevent rural broadband stagnation

  Northern Ireland broadband supplier calls on Ofcom to cut charges applied by market leader regarding use of communications poles. Meanwhile, leading English altnet is hit by fine for its installed comms apparatus in Birmingham City area

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

  The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Google fixes type confusion flaw in Chrome browser

  An actively exploited type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser needs immediate attention from users

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Network failures see third of UK businesses lose £4m a year

  Research finds as many as half of UK businesses have been forced to urgently re-evaluate their tech infrastructure following a wave of high-profile IT outages

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

  Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Openreach adds 21 locations in broadband upgrade footprint

  UK’s largest broadband network provider makes significant addition to infrastructure, staying on track to make full-fibre gigabit available to 30 million premises in all corners of the UK by 2030

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Next phase of fintech reflected in strong financials, says World Economic Forum

  Digital-powered finance firms might not be growing their customer base as fast as the immediate post-pandemic period, but revenue and profits are strong

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  AI competitiveness maxing out US bandwidth

  Research finds growing demand to bring compute and data closer to the edge for real-time performance. Hyperscalers and datacentres are securing dense metro networks to support AI inference and regional interconnects

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Brightspeed, Calix conclude ‘innovative, seamless’ 50G-PON test

  US broadband and telecommunications services provider’s technology advancement centre tests passive optical fibre network capabilities that it says will support rapid, scalable growth today and for years to come

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Arelion upgrades Scandinavian network to support AI ‘superhighway’

  IP backbone and diverse connectivity services provider deploys 1.6Tbps and scalable 400G coherent pluggable optics for network between Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  CMA consults on Google’s search dominance

  The Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on whether Google should be designated with strategic market status

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  ITS wins dark fibre contract to boost Carmarthenshire connectivity

  Latest step in Welsh connectivity programme sees major contract to provide fibre to underpin the expanding needs of digital services in communities that rely on effective, secure and high-capacity infrastructure

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  AR/VR headset market reaching ‘critical tipping point’

  Research finds marked uptick in immersive technologies market with 18.1% year-on-year growth fuelled by immersive and versatile experiences, with future growth anticipated to be driven by mixed and extended reality

• June 19, 2025 19 Jun'25

  Inca warns of ‘unjustified’ Openreach prominence in comms review

  Trade association for UK’s independent broadband providers urges regulator to ensure forthcoming legislation secures the future of infrastructure investment, fosters regulatory consistency and promotes a fair and competitive landscape

• June 19, 2025 19 Jun'25

  University of Oulu shows machine vision can replace expert presence

  Leading Finnish university and tech hub reveals advances in immersive augmented reality technologies to support remote work and operations and address unique challenges and skill shortages of northern regions

• June 18, 2025 18 Jun'25

  New era of connectivity required to unlock power of AI

  Leading comms tech provider’s report reveals how outdated connectivity is restricting businesses’ ability to capitalise on emerging technologies such as AI

• June 16, 2025 16 Jun'25

  CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows

  Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  European telcos team to gain edge, AI factories

  Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor announce partnership with AI technology leader to build infrastructure to support generative and agentic AI services for regional enterprises

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Cisco Live 2025: The digital workplace gets closer to ‘distance zero’

  Research reveals disconnects between employer expectations and employee preferences around return-to-office policies in the new world of hybrid working, but also finds acceptance and uptake of cutting-edge collaboration tools

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation

  At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row

  Senior conservative MP David Davis says the Home Office should disclose how many secret orders it has issued against telecoms and internet companies to Parliament

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  ‘Severe’ network outages costing $160bn globally

  Research reveals costly impact of outages and spotlights a critical turning point in enterprise network architecture changing how IT leaders think about the network, such as what it is, what it enables and how it protects organisations

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

  The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  CityFibre doubles broadband speed with 5.5Gbps wholesale offer

  Independent UK broadband provider reveals new symmetrical wholesale product, twice as fast as its fastest currently available service, enabled by 10Gbps XGS-PON upgrade

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Lumen lands terrestrial backhaul deal for JUNO trans-Pacific cable

  Live Pacific connection designed to give enterprises direct, low-latency pathway between US and key Asian markets will be supported by Lumen Technologies

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Nokia unveils Wi-Fi 7 gateways as high-end router market sees growth

  As high-end segment of the router market is dominated by four firms and eases back into profit, leading comms tech provider introduces entry-level and mid-tier devices that can deliver speeds over three times faster than Wi-Fi 6 devices

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy

  Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Nokia accelerates multi-Gig PON fibre broadband services

  Line card product optimised for cost-effective mass market 25G PON, while co-existence network element enables ability to run single fibre 10G, 25G and 50G services

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal

  Post Office accused of suppressing the views of victims of the Horizon scandal by deleting comments on social media platforms

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  HPE Aruba Networking expands distributed services switch platform

  Leading network tech and services provider extends offer with distributed services switches, and expanded wired and wireless portfolio, to meet increasing AI and high-performance computing demands

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Immersive content to stretch wireless networks to breaking point

  Research finds video accounts for 69% of all internet data traffic, far surpassing social media and gaming, and that by 2031, limitations of current networks are already apparent

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  BT returns to capital spending for full-fibre expansion

  UK’s leading communications group lifts investment in order to beat previous build target and connect customers faster as part of mass transformation of UK’s Digital Infrastructure

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search

  As Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Extreme Networks ups networking AI ante with Platform One

  Leading cloud networking provider announces limited availability of next-gen networking platform attributed with reducing manual tasks by up to 90%

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Interview: Driving tech innovation at the BBC

  Computer Weekly speaks to Jatin Aythora, director of BBC Research and Development, about self-belief and learning from different industries

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation

  Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential

  Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive

• May 16, 2025 16 May'25

  BT to bring gigabit broadband to hard-to-reach Swansea Bay areas

  UK’s leading comms provider inks £10m contract to deliver full-fibre to nearly 1,800 sites across the south coast of Wales, bridging connectivity gaps in Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Fibre, 5G continue to expand global footprint

  Core ‘future-proof’ communications technologies are steadily expanding their reach as wireless applications gain ground in key territories

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Openreach connects first customers under Project Gigabit partnership

  UK’s leading broadband provider reveals initial customers in hardest-to-reach communities gaining gigabit access as part of partnership with government’s £5bn deployment scheme

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025

  Gartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty

  Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval

• May 12, 2025 12 May'25

  Wi-Fi 7 trials show ‘significant’ performance gains in enterprise environments

  Wireless technology consortium reveals industry trials of latest Wi-Fi standard in enterprise scenarios revealing increased throughput, lower latency and enhanced efficiency for high-demand applications

• May 12, 2025 12 May'25

  Virgin Media O2, Daisy Group merge to form B2B comms company

  Comms provider and IT services company unite to offer digital-first connectivity and managed services

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  Nordic countries plan offline payment system for disaster backup

  Board member of the Bank of Finland reveals plan as likelihood of losing internet connectivity increases amid geopolitical tensions

• May 08, 2025 08 May'25

  Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key

  Confluent’s Tim Berglund warns that a cultural transformation towards creating valued data products is vital even as the technology for data streaming is maturing