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Solving not-spots? Ofcom proposal to make UK the first European country to allow ordinary smartphones to make satellite calls
Moonshot project Taara spun out of Google, uses lasers and not satellites to provide internet connectivity in hard-to-reach locations
Plan to reduce the number of Openreach's legacy telephone exchanges is updated, with closure process to begin this year
Authorities in Sweden on Friday confirm investigation after fresh damage discovered on undersea cable in Baltic Sea
Meta Platforms announces plan to build Project Waterworth, a 50,000 km cable linking five continents as it ramps infrastructure investments
New research from Freshwave finds a better mobile signal indoors could grow the UK economy by £70bn a year
New challenger for Elon Musk's Starlink in UK, after Ofcom grants earth station network licence to Amazon Kuiper
Possible broadband speed of the future? Openreach and Nokia test UK’s first live 50Gbps fibre broadband connection
Owner of bulk carrier MV Vezhen, detained by Sweden for another cable damage incident in Baltic sea, claims rough weather…
BT throws in the towel to install 60,000 EV chargers utilising roadside cabinets, after installing just one EV charger in…
Jeff Bozos challenge to SpaceX's Falcon-9 heavy lift rocket, the New Glenn rocket, to make inaugural launch on Sunday
Italian government in advanced negotiations with SpaceX's Starlink to provide secure government communications via satellite
End for net neutrality in US. FCC's attempt to re-enact net neutrality laws in United States struck down by Federal…
Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar signs agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX for 'direct-to-cell' satellite connectivity
Undersea internet and power cable in Baltic sea between Finland and Estonia suffers outage. Finland seizes suspected oil tanker
United Nations body to protect undersea communications cables that are crucial for international trade and security holds first meeting
World spanning subsea cable measuring 40,000km (or 24,854 mile) long, reportedly being planned by Meta for its exclusive use
Possible sabotage? Two undersea cables in the Baltic sea have been severely damaged, triggering security concerns
Victory of Donald Trump in the US Presidential election and the potential implications for the tech industry
BT cell tower in Shropshire Hills has 100 percent of its power requirements delivered by renewable energy sources
SpaceX rocket blasts off on Sunday with 20 satellites to expand the Eutelsat/OneWeb communications network
Openreach announces a further 79 exchanges where it is to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband connections
Valuable scrap. As fibre transition continues, BT recycles 3,300 tons of redundant copper cabling, recouping millions of pounds
Hundreds of Sky Glass televisions and Stream devices fail to turn on, with speculation of a faulty software update to…
Level of cyberthreats revealed, after BT says it spots 2,000 signals of potential cyberattacks every second
Sky and CityFibre agree long-term partnership that will bring Sky's Full Fibre Broadband to the CityFibre network
BT will in April 2025 launch a symmetric 1Gbps broadband product, potentially offering same upload speeds as download
Indian conglomerate Bharti Global is to take a huge shareholding of the former UK telecoms incumbent, BT Group
Second stage of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes in orbit in company's first failure since 2016, endangering Starlink satellites
