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Vodafone Bids £5.8bn For Spanish Cable Company Ono – Report
Vodafone reportedly looks to boost European fixed line network with another acquisition
Snowden Used Basic Web Scraping Tools In NSA Breach
Use of basic web crawlers leads to concern over the quality of the intelligence agency's security
BT Denies Copper ADSL Switch Off Will Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Businesses
BT says businesses have had plenty of time to upgrade to faster services
Target Hackers Snuck In Through Ventilation Vendor
Epic breach in part down to credentials stolen from Fazio Mechanical Services
Mobile Data Usage To Increase 11-Fold By 2018 – Cisco
Report from Cisco also predicts that 4G networks will carry 51 percent of mobile data traffic by 2018
Snowden Leak: GCHQ Targeted Anonymous With DoS Attacks
GCHQ attacked Anonymous with DoS attacks, knocking IRC chat rooms offline, whilst scaring members away by sending warning messages
Extreme Networks’ Purview Turns Net Management Into Big Data
Data capture from networks could drive business decisions, says Extreme Networks
First BDUK Fibre Cabinets Go Live In Warwickshire And Northamptonshire
Two BDUK projects reveal the locations of the first government-funded fibre cabinets
Syrian Electronic Army Hits eBay And PayPal
Hacking crew appears to carry out hit on DNS infrastructure serving eBay-owned sites
70,000 Properties In Devon And Somerset To Receive BDUK Fibre By Summer
BDUK rollout in the West Country to reach more homes and businesses even quicker
Government Tweaks ‘Porn Filters’ To Prevent Over-Blocking
A ‘whitelist’ should reduce the numbers of legitimate websites blocked by ISPs
Fibre Demand Boosts BT Results In Record Quarter For Openreach
BT says fibre and sports TV investments are coming good
IBM Seeks Buyers For SDN Business – Report
IBM is reportedly seeking to divest itself of its SDN unit and has approached several networking vendors
Cisco Touts ‘Fog Computing’ With New IOx Platform
Cisco's new IOx platform includes a Linux OS to push software to network edge for IoT
Government-Funded Superfast Broadband Rollout Reaches 300,000 Premises
DCMS says rollout is now likely to have reached more than 300,000 homes and businesses
Cross-Platform Java Malware Used In DDoS Attacks
Kaspersky finds malware targeting unnamed bulk email service
Scotland To Get Its Own ‘.scot’ Top-Level Domain Name
the new ‘.scot’ ccTLD will be available this summer
Ofcom: Mobile, Broadband, Landline Services Cheaper Than Ten Years Ago
Ofcom says consumers are getting more for less thanks to strong competition
BT To Invest Another £50m In Urban Fibre Rollout
BT to connect 400,000 more homes and businesses across 30 cities to its fibre network
Quiz Of The Week: Fibre Broadband
Thanks to optical fibre we have superfast broadband. How well do you know it?
South Korea Pledges £905m To Roll Out 5G By 2020
South Korea wants to be a world leader in 5G development
Davos: Two-Year Investigation Into Future Of The Internet Announced
Commission chair Carl Bildt says open and flexible model of the Internet increasingly under attack
Ofcom Protects Consumers And SMBs From Mid-Contract Price Hikes
New Ofcom rules allow telecoms customers to exit if contracts change
Verizon’s Transparency Report Shows Another Rise In US Data Requests
Verizon reveals the masses of data requests it receives from the US government and law enforcement
Swedish Researchers Uncover Dirty Tor Exit Relays
Researchers find 25 "spoiled onions" used to look through or censor users' Tor traffic
University Of Cumbria To Accept Fees In Bitcoin
Rival university lecturer says Cumbria would be braver to use dogecoin
BT And Alcatel-Lucent Set 1.4Tbps Fibre Bandwidth Record
Researchers say it is possible to achieve such speeds across the whole of BT’s core network
Ofcom Authorises Faster Satellite Wi-Fi For Ships, Planes And Trains
Ofcom expects to issue first licenses for earth stations in February
EE Admits To Security Flaw In Brightbox Routers
EE says it is working on fix to security flaw that could expose customers' personal information