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UN Body To Protect Subsea Cables Holds First Meeting

United Nations body to protect undersea communications cables that are crucial for international trade and security holds first meeting

2 weeks ago

Meta Plans Subsea Cable For Its Own Exclusive Use – Report

World spanning subsea cable measuring 40,000km (or 24,854 mile) long, reportedly being planned by Meta for its exclusive use

3 weeks ago

Germany “Deeply Concerned” After Damage To Two Undersea Cables

Possible sabotage? Two undersea cables in the Baltic sea have been severely damaged, triggering security concerns

1 month ago

BT Switches On First Self-Powered Cell Tower

BT cell tower in Shropshire Hills has 100 percent of its power requirements delivered by renewable energy sources

2 months ago

Eutelsat Launches First Satellites Since OneWeb Merger

SpaceX rocket blasts off on Sunday with 20 satellites to expand the Eutelsat/OneWeb communications network

2 months ago

BT Openreach Names Latest Copper ‘Stop Sell’ Locations

Openreach announces a further 79 exchanges where it is to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband connections

2 months ago

BT Recoups £105 Million By Recycling Copper Cables

Valuable scrap. As fibre transition continues, BT recycles 3,300 tons of redundant copper cabling, recouping millions of pounds

3 months ago

Sky Glass Televisions Disabled By Tech Fault

Hundreds of Sky Glass televisions and Stream devices fail to turn on, with speculation of a faulty software update to…

3 months ago

BT Identifies 2,000 Potential Cyberattacks Signals Every Second

Level of cyberthreats revealed, after BT says it spots 2,000 signals of potential cyberattacks every second

3 months ago

Sky Signs Full Fibre Broadband Partnership With CityFibre

Sky and CityFibre agree long-term partnership that will bring Sky's Full Fibre Broadband to the CityFibre network

4 months ago

IT Stress Points For SMEs Identified By TalkTalk Business

There are plenty of issues to keep large corporate CIOs awake at night, but what are the IT stress points…

4 months ago

BT Details Plan To Launch First Symmetric Ultrafast FTTP Broadband

BT will in April 2025 launch a symmetric 1Gbps broadband product, potentially offering same upload speeds as download

4 months ago

India’s Bharti Global To Acquire 24.5 Percent Of BT

Indian conglomerate Bharti Global is to take a huge shareholding of the former UK telecoms incumbent, BT Group

4 months ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes In Orbit

Second stage of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes in orbit in company's first failure since 2016, endangering Starlink satellites

5 months ago

AT&T Says Tech Giants Should Fund Rural Broadband

AT&T chief says biggest tech companies should be forced to contribute to troubled fund for low-income and rural broadband access

6 months ago

SpaceX Demos First Video Call Of T-Mobile’s Direct To Cell Service

Video call made from one smartphone connected to Starlink satellite, to another phone connected to T-Mobile USA network

7 months ago

BT Extends Deadline For PSTN Switch To Digital Landlines

Carrier 'refines' its digital switchover programme, and extends deadline for UK move from old analogue PSTN to digital landlines

7 months ago

FCC To Vote This Month To Restore Net Neutrality

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to hold vote on 25 April to restore Net Neutrality rules in US, overturned by Trump

9 months ago

Ericsson To Cut 1,200 Jobs in Sweden Amid ‘Challenging’ Market

Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson blamed “challenging mobile networks market” and “further volume contraction” for job losses

9 months ago

Vodafone Germany Confirms 2,000 Job Losses, Amid European Restructuring

More downsizing at Vodafone after German operation announces 2,000 jobs will be axed, as automation increases in the future

9 months ago

SpaceX ‘Developing Spy Satellites’ For US Agency

SpaceX reportedly developing network of hundreds of low-orbit spy satellites for US intelligence agency under classified $1.8bn contract

9 months ago

BT Tower In London Sold, And Will Become Luxury Hotel

Landmark BT Tower in central London to become a luxury hotel, after it is sold for £275m to US hotel…

10 months ago

Openreach Confirms Faster Fibre Speeds From 1 April

Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) broadband speeds are to be ‘turbo-charged’, after Openreach launches two new speed tiers

10 months ago

French Prosecutors Raid Huawei Office

Huawei says it is fully co-operating, after its French offices were searched last week as part of probe by financial…

11 months ago

BT’s Successor Allison Kirkby To Start As CEO On 1 February

With current chief executive Philip Jansen stepping down at the end of the month, BT confirms February start for new…

12 months ago

BT Misses Deadline For Huawei Equipment Removal From Core Network

Nearly there. Carrier fails to completely meet UK government's year-end deadline, for removal of Huawei equipment from core network

12 months ago

Full Fibre Arrives In UK’s Most Remote Inhabited Island

People living on Fair Isle, the UK’s most geographically remote inhabited island, have received a significant connectivity improvement. Openreach has…

12 months ago

BT Risks Fine As Huawei Removal Deadline Nears – Report

UK carrier BT is at risk of a fine as it nears 31 December deadline to replace Huawei equipment from…

1 year ago