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ProtonMail and WhatsApp under pressure over user privacy failings

A couple of investigations have revealed that some services that pride themselves on user privacy might not be nearly as secure as they claim.

• 07 Sep 2021

AWS reportedly planning to increase platform censorship

Dominant public cloud platform AWS is reportedly forming a censorship team that will help it remove more content that violates its policies.

• 03 Sep 2021

EU court rules against Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone on net neutrality

Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone have found themselves on the wrong end of a European court decision in a years-long dispute over certain content offerings.

• 02 Sep 2021

Apple placates Japan Fair Trade Commission with token app store concession

A five-year Japanese investigation into Apple’s app store practices has been resolved with a superficial tweak.

• 02 Sep 2021

South Korea demands Apple and Google open app stores to 3rd-party payments

A bill voted through by Korea’s parliamentarians demands application store operators like Apple and Google to allow customers to choose alternative payment methods when buying apps and content.

• 31 Aug 2021

Extent of EU corruption by big tech lobbying revealed

According to a new study technology is the biggest lobby sector to the European Union and that spend is dominated by US tech giants.

• 31 Aug 2021

Apple opens its purse to settle developer class-action suit

Apple has agreed to loosen its grip on how mobile apps can be distributed and promised more transparency on app approval processes in a package to settle a class-action suit brought by app developers.

• 27 Aug 2021

These 3 kings will rule the future of streaming

The streaming ecosystem is in a high stakes transition. How it shakes out will impact media, entertainment, and technology industries across the world.

• 26 Aug 2021

SKT launches its own subscription platform

Korean telco SKT has decided the time is right to launch a suite of subscription services for its customers.

• 26 Aug 2021

OnlyFans blames banks for content policy change – UPDATED

The founder of Social subscriber platform OnlyFans has pinned the blame on banks refusing to process transactions connected to the company.

• 25 Aug 2021

Facebook keen to add calling functions following amended FTC complaint

Facebook has reportedly begun testing a version of Messenger that will add voice and video calling to the world’s largest social network.

• 24 Aug 2021

OnlyFans, Locals, Stripe, and the payment processor police

Social subscriber platform OnlyFans is reportedly banning sexually explicit content, undermining the businesses of many of its creators in the process.

• 20 Aug 2021

Telcos ask for loophole in OECD’s anti-tax-loophole rules

Two of the telecoms industry’s biggest lobby groups have called for their members to be exempt from upcoming rules designed to curb tax avoidance by multinational tech firms.

• 18 Aug 2021

Afghan debacle once more exposes the incoherence of social media censorship

Social media companies have come under pressure to censor accounts linked to the Taliban, but there seem to be no clear guidelines or public policy.

• 18 Aug 2021

Uncarrier T-Mobile unable to protect customer data

US operator T-Mobile has confirmed that a hacker has accessed nearly 50 million customer records.

• 18 Aug 2021

Eurobites: MegaFon extends VoLTE services across Russia

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Inmarsat accelerates the L-band; Finnfund boosts connectivity in Africa; it’s time we took a ‘woliday’.

• 13 Aug 2021

US Senators out to tear down the app store walls

A bipartisan Senate bill is introduced to boost competition in the mobile apps market with rules to restrict what Apple and Google can impose on developers and users.

• 12 Aug 2021

KPN links €1 billion credit facility to sustainability goals

KPN has secured a €1 billion credit facility that is linked to its own sustainability goals, a further sign that telcos are taking this stuff seriously.

• 05 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Musk sets up Isle of Man beachhead for UK broadband assault

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: UK government updates on Project Gigabit; Telecom Italia makes quantum leap; O2 turns on 5G street light in Frankfurt.

• 02 Aug 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: China Mobile, dumb pipes and bugbears

Cherish this one because it will be the last pod for a few weeks, as the lads attempt to holiday in the time of Covid. They start with a review of China Mobile’s recent tender process for a bunch of 5G work, which resulted in non-Chinese vendors getting just a 6% share. They move on to the eternal topic of telcos as dumb pipes, examining what hope there is for them ever to be otherwise, and conclude with Scott and Iain having a rant about some of their current bugbears.

• 26 Jul 2021