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• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Will Brexit really bring the return of mobile roaming charges?

  As Theresa May commits to quitting the EU’s digital single market alongside Brexit, heralding the potential reintroduction of mobile roaming charges, are business travellers and holidaymakers doomed to a return to the bad old days?

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience

  The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Ofcom probes Three and Vodafone over suspected net neutrality breaches

  Telecoms regulator launches investigation into whether or not mobile operators Three and Vodafone are flouting European rules on net neutrality

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Government sets out tighter security measures for IoT devices

  The government has announced plans to develop a new code of practice to improve the security of connected internet of things devices

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Essex, Herts Councils expand smart city pilot scheme

  Essex and Hertfordshire County Councils have joined forces to run a number of pilots assessing the socioeconomic benefits of smart city technologies

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  MWC 2018: iPhone X device of choice for visitors to Barcelona

  Statistics compiled by mobile data crowdsourcing outfit Tutela has revealed in-depth insight into what devices visitors to Mobile World Congress 2018 were using, and how they used them

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Fibre broadband network builder challenges ASA on fake fibre

  CityFibre has filed for a judicial review of the Advertising Standards Authority’s November 2017 decision to allow fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband to be advertised as fibre

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  New privacy fears as IT challenges delay surveillance oversight body by a year

  IT challenges have delayed government plans for an independent body to authorise requests to access the public’s internet and phone records by nearly a year, raising new legal and privacy concerns

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  MWC 2018: Cisco and Vodafone demonstrate network slicing

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, network supplier Cisco and mobile operator Vodafone demonstrated network slicing techniques using segment routing

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Six bidders set to take part in 5G mobile spectrum auction

  Ofcom has confirmed the names of the six companies that have successfully qualified to take part in this year’s mobile spectrum auction

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Ofcom to enforce new rules on broadband speed disclosure

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to impose new measures on broadband providers, forcing them to provide better information about speeds to consumers

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: 5G collaboration dominates agenda at annual mobile fair

  At Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, 5G mobile networks were the talk of the show, and a number of operators announced new collaborations around the emerging network standard with their technology partners

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Project Flame launches 5G testbed in Barcelona

  The European H2020 Project Flame has launched the first urban-scaled 5G testbed for open media internet trials, using an InterDigital platform

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  ASEAN firms upbeat on Industry 4.0

  Southeast Asian countries are generally optimistic about the use of emerging technologies, such as advanced analytics in manufacturing industries, but the positive sentiment has not led to action

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Data, not connectivity, now core to IoT, says Cisco Jasper

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco Jasper has been exploring the growing criticality of data management to the internet of things, and unveiled new NB-IoT customers in Asia

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Telefónica aims to connect 100 million in Latin America

  At Mobile World Congress, telecoms operator Telefónica launches a new initiative to bring 100 million people in Latin America online by using mobile networking technology for the first time

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: 5G 'open for business', says Ericsson CEO

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm has been expanding on early commercial opportunities for 5G mobile networks

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  OpenStack gains early foothold in Australia

  Although the open source technology has its cheerleaders, OpenStack has yet to crack Australia’s mainstream and challenge the market share of proprietary cloud suppliers

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Samsung Galaxy S9 launch kicks off annual mobile festival

  Samsung has raised the curtain on Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona with the launch of a new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone device

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  IT services giants face stiff challenge from niche players in IoT market

  Traditional broad and large IT services firms are facing competition from niche industry-focused companies in the IoT services market

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  Ofcom pledges to halve the cost of full-fibre broadband network builds

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom has finalised plans to make full-fibre broadband network builds cheaper, and encourage more private sector investment

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Emergency Services Network progress ‘deeply unsatisfactory’, says PAC

  A Home Office review of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme will not be finished before the end of July, the Public Accounts Committee has been told

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  5G mobile network rocks up in Brighton

  Digital Catapult and the Coast to Capital LEP will switch on a 5G mobile network test bed in Brighton in April 2018

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Hitachi Vantara ups ante on industrial IoT

  Potential internet of things powerhouse believes its deep expertise in operational technology will give it a leg up over traditional IT rivals

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  O2 uses The O2 to run 5G mobile network trials

  Mobile network operator O2 is to trial a 5G ‘experience’ at the eponymous London music venue later in 2018

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  CityFibre launches consumer broadband partnership in Aberdeen

  CityFibre and Vodafone are preparing to launch a consumer FTTP broadband service in Aberdeen

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  VX Fiber brings Swedish open access full-fibre broadband model to UK

  Flush with success in its home market, Swedish open access full-fibre broadband specialist VX Fiber is launching in the UK, with plans to shake up service delivery to users by helping local councils monetise their network assets

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Digital economy to make up 60% of APAC’s GDP by 2021

  The surge in GDP contribution will come as more organisations shift from digital transformation initiatives aimed at shoring up productivity towards digital product development

• February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18

  4G IoT network may ease aviation sector fears over drone safety

  Vodafone is testing mobile and internet of things network technology to protect commercial aircraft from badly flown drones

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Lauri Love can stay in UK: prosecutors will not appeal extradition ruling

  Crown Prosecution Service gives undertaking to Lauri Love that it will not appeal against a court decision not to extradite him to the US – but prosecutors are seeking leave to appeal over part of the court ruling on extradition procedure

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Church spires to become mobile coverage hotspots

  Following successful trials in East Anglia, DCMS and Defra plan to encourage rural vicars to host broadband connectivity hotspots in their churches

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  Cisco profits slump after Trump tax bill

  Networking giant posted $8.8bn loss in the second quarter of its fiscal 2018 after booking charges related to the US government’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but saw a strong quarter elsewhere

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  Dell EMC’s IoT revenue in APAC surpasses $1bn

  The milestone in Dell EMC’s internet of things revenue underscores the APAC region’s rapid uptake of sensors and other IoT devices in industries and smart city projects

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Consumers wasting millions of gigabytes of inclusive mobile data

  Over 140 million gigabytes of mobile broadband data included in UK consumer mobile contracts is going unused every month, according to uSwitch

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  Vodafone introduces 4G mini-masts in Cornwall

  Vodafone has installed and trialled a pint-sized 4G ‘mini mobile’ mast, designed to be less obtrusive, in Cornwall

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Moscow puts municipal vehicles online to save fuel

  The city of Moscow has deployed a unified IoT platform to monitor and control all of its municipal vehicles

• February 09, 2018 09 Feb'18

  EE launches home broadband over 4G LTE

  EE has been conducting tests of a powerful 4G antenna that it claims can provide isolated rural homes with broadband speeds equivalent to full-fibre

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  TalkTalk’s York FTTP broadband roll-out to go nationwide

  Following successful delivery of an ultrafast FTTP broadband network in York, TalkTalk is planning to start work on a £1.5bn national roll-out

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Orange announces European 5G testing

  Mobile operator Orange will run 5G mobile network pilots in France and Romania later this year

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Dubai transport authority maps city to support autonomous cars

  Dubai’s RTA has enlisted Here Technologies to build a high-definition map of the city to support its goals around self-driving cars

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  HPE opens APAC innovation lab to tap IoT market

  Facility in Singapore will rope in partners across the internet of things ecosystem to test new applications powered by HPE’s edge computing capabilities

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  AstraZeneca inks deals with Alibaba and Tencent in AI push

  Pharmaceutical bigwig AstraZeneca hopes to deliver smart healthcare services and combat online sales of counterfeit drugs through tie-ups with Chinese tech giants

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Lauri Love plans to use ‘internet as a force for good’

  Engineering student Lauri Love says he plans to help businesses fight cyber crime, after the court of appeal ruled that he can be tried in the UK for allegedly hacking US computer systems, rather than face extradition to the US

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Traditional datacentres to host just 6% of workloads by 2021, predicts Cisco

  The seventh annual Cisco Global Cloud Index highlights how the demand for workloads hosted in traditional private datacentres is continuing to wane in the face of cloud

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Appeals court rules Lauri Love will not be extradited over US hacking charges

  The lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, says 33-year-old engineering student Lauri Love will not be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, in a landmark legal decision, and the Crown Prosecution Service should bring proceedings against Love in ...

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Networking spend declining across the board

  Overall spending on networking projects across EMEA looks set to decline in 2018, according to the latest ComputerWeekly/TechTarget IT Priorities report

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Researchers discover malicious Chrome extensions

  Security researchers have discovered a new botnet delivered via malicious Chrome extensions designed to hijack computers to mine cryptocurrency and record victims’ every move

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Appeal Court to give landmark verdict on Lauri Love extradition

  The Appeal Court will decide whether Lauri Love, who has serious health issues, should be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, or face trial in the UK. The landmark case is the first test of legal protections introduced by Theresa May to ...

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Global Services still problem child for BT

  Challenging market conditions and lost customers at its IT services unit weigh heavily on BT’s results in the third quarter