Neowin News Feed for: Telecoms

Virgin Media O2 announces pounds and pence price increases from April

Paul Hill — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:58:01 +0000

Virgin Media O2 has unveiled its plans for pounds and pence price increases from April to make things easier for customers to understand. Read more...

Vodafone and Three claim their merger will create thousands of jobs

Paul Hill — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:20:01 +0000

Vodafone and Three have said that their merger in the UK could create 12,000 new jobs. The Unite union has warned that similar mergers have actually led to job cuts and says up to 1,600 jobs could go. Read more...

More organisations join UK telecoms to increase number of women in senior tech roles

Paul Hill — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:06:01 +0000

More organisations have signed Ofcom's pledge to bring more women into senior tech roles. The pledge was originally signed by telecom companies from the UK in June but more have just signed. Read more...

Semiconductor materials to face Chinese export controls from August

Paul Hill — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 22:28:19 +0000

China will bring in export controls on gallium and germanium from August 1. These metals are used by the semiconductor, telecoms, and electric vehicle industries and consumers could see higher prices. Read more...

Samsung and Nokia sign new cross-license 5G patent deal

Steve Bennett — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:58:01 +0000

Samsung and Nokia have had a cross-license patent deal in place for the sharing of knowledge by both companies for some time but this expired in 2022. Today, both companies have signed a new deal. Read more...

UK telecoms providers may not have to provide fax services at affordable prices soon

Paul Hill — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:34:02 +0000

Ofcom has said it wants to change the universal service obligation (USO) so that telecoms providers no longer need to support fax machines. The USO has not been updated since 2003. Read more...

Google comes out against the idea that it should pay network costs

Paul Hill — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:50:01 +0000

Google has spoken out against plans to make it pay network infrastructure costs to help providers meet EU targets. Network providers have been complaining they can't make viable returns on upgrades. Read more...

Ericsson to stop operating in Russia in the next few months

Steve Bennett — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:42:01 +0000

Another tech company, Ericsson, has announced that it will cease its business operations in Russia over the next few months in its obligations to customers, as a result of the Ukraine war. Read more...

UK: 4.7m families struggled to pay telecom bills this year

Paul Hill — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:12:02 +0000

Ofcom's research should that one in five have been struggling to keep up with their telecom bills. It has called on broadband providers to offer tariffs for those living on a low income. Read more...

UK: Telecoms chiefs set out measures that need tackling by government for fibre rollout

Paul Hill — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 16:38:01 +0000

Groups representing the telecoms industry in the UK have called on the Prime Minister to address several challenges facing a nationwide fibre rollout. Proposals to fix the issues were given. Read more...

European Union states reject EC's 25-year spectrum license plan

Paul Hill — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:06:02 +0000

The Estonian government is asking other EU member states for feedback on how long telecoms companies should be able to lease wireless spectrum. It has ditched the EC's 25-year suggestion. Read more...

Researchers discover software flaw that puts ALL our communications at risk [Update]

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:28:01 +0000

The flaw in question affects equipment used by cell towers, radios, networks, and of course, our own mobile phones. While there's a patch available, most devices won't ever receive it. Read more...

European Commission approves Nokia's acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

Justin Luna — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:02:01 +0000

The European Commission has approved Nokia's acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, a wireless technologies company. It is one of the company's latest milestones, after transitioning to a telecoms company. Read more...

EU partners with Japan to push 5G development

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:56:01 +0000

The European Union is determined to be among the first parts of the world to deploy 5G technologies, and it's now partnering with Japan and others to make sure that happens. Read more...

Skype, WhatsApp seen as competition for carriers by European Commission

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:02:01 +0000

A leaked report shows that the European Commission is looking to take into account supposed competition from VOIP services which are taking on traditional wireless carriers across the Union. Read more...

Orange to partner with Deezer to offer music streaming

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:45:24 +0000

Orange - the fifth largest telecoms company in the world, is planning to partner with Deezer to offer free music streaming to its pay-monthly mobile tariffs. Read more...

NSA Can Tap 1/3 of World's Telecoms

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:49:27 +0000

Under new provisions of the Protect America Act 2007 recently signed into legislation, as an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, the US National Security Agency (NSA) can monitor all traffic... Read more...

Wildly optimistic data drove telecoms to build fiber glut

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:37:18 +0000

Of all of the myths that drove the 1990s technology boom — dot-coms made good investments, the New Economy would never experience a recession, small telecom companies could beat the mighty Bells — the most... Read more...