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• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Huawei reports record numbers despite tumultuous year

  Huawei has become one of the world’s largest technology companies by revenue, suggesting the accusations over its ties to the Chinese government are failing to have much impact

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  CLA calls for government intervention on rural 4G coverage

  Country Land and Business Association urges government to consider broadband-style interventions to improve 4G mobile network coverage in rural areas

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Huawei making no progress on addressing security concerns

  Huawei has made no material progress on addressing the issues identified last year by the NCSC, according to the latest highly critical report from its HSCEC Oversight Board

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  UK government at odds over Huawei threat

  The chair of the Science and Technology Committee has criticised the government’s vague response to concerns about Huawei’s activities in the UK

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Colt picks Cisco to simplify 5G backhaul services

  Colt is to deploy Cisco’s segment routing and Ethernet VPN-based architecture on its IQ Network for mobile operators

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 7

  In this week’s episode of The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team talks cyber attacks against the NHS, the everywoman in Tech Forum, 5G connected cows, and covers off the latest round of revelations about Facebook’s data processing ...

• March 09, 2019 09 Mar'19

  Malaysia takes broad base approach to 5G security

  The country’s telco regulator is taking a industry-wide look at security implications of 5G, preferring not to target any particular supplier

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Growing awareness of mobile security risk

  There is a growing awareness of mobile security risk among members of the information security community, but most admit accessing corporate data from personal devices or public Wi-Fi

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Vodafone defends its use of Huawei as 5G trials go live

  As Vodafone begins trials of a live 5G service in Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool, the operator’s CTO and general counsel have defended their use of Huawei equipment in Vodafone’s network and challenged its detractors to produce evidence of spying

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  US government ban unconstitutional, says Huawei

  Huawei’s lawsuit accuses Washington of violating the US Constitution by banning it from government contracts

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  US doubles down on Huawei fears as Chinese prepare to sue

  US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has reinforced his attacks on Huawei as the firm apparently prepares to sue the US government over its federal-level ban

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Australia ramps up on 5G – telcos and banks among the first to benefit

  Australia has been touted as a leader in 5G, although the promises of the technology supporting the use of autonomous vehicles will not be realised for now

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  UK among most expensive countries for mobile data

  The UK ranks 136th in the world for the average cost of 1GB of mobile data, according to new statistics

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  MWC 2019: Vodafone powers 5G with VMware

  Vodafone is using VMware’s telco cloud platform to prepare its mobile networks for 5G in 15 geographies

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  China Mobile and Singtel team up on IoT

  Two major telcos in the APAC region, China Mobile and Singtel, are working together to help enterprises deploy the internet of things across China and Singapore