UK telcos to help customers cope with cost of living crisis
Customers in the UK who are struggling to pay their broadband and mobile bills are to get help under a new deal agreed between the government and operators.
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Mexico bails out bankrupt shared network operator
Mexico’s telecoms regulator has given the go-ahead for what is effectively a state bailout of Altan Redes, which operates the country’s shared LTE network.
UK foreign worker red tape slowing fibre rollout – Openreach
In an interview with the FT Clive Selley, CEO of UK fixed line wholesaler Openreach, said the UK government is making it too hard to recruit foreign workers.
UK government invokes Thatcher to push new digital strategy
The UK government has published its latest Digital Strategy which, as usual, is more about ambition and buzzwords than it is action.
Spain offers tower companies €150 million for 5G
The Spanish government plans to award €150 million in funding to passive infrastructure companies willing to support the rollout of 5G in areas with poor mobile data coverage.
Altice’s BT investment faces national security probe
The UK government is feeling twitchy about billionaire Patrick Drahi’s 18 percent stake in operator group BT.
UK government publishes its Open RAN wish list
The UK state is really into Open RAN, so much so that it apparently wants to have a say in defining the nascent standard.
UK government asks telecoms firms to ‘raise awareness’ of cheaper tariffs
UK Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries has written to BT, Virgin Media O2, KCom and others to ask them to ‘outline plans for promoting low-cost social tariffs’ for people on benefits.
Government launches £10 million bid to make UK ‘a world leader in telecoms R&D’
The Department for Culture Media and Sport will hand out up to £10 million to whoever it picks to run a new R&D type unit called UKTIN, in order to promote innovation in UK telecoms.
UK moves to grant Ofcom and Parliament sweeping online censorship powers
The Online Safety Bill is finally being introduced to Parliament and it seeks to make Ofcom the arbiter of online speech and activity in the UK.
English mobile masts are putting on weight
Mobile operators in England will soon be able to increase the height and girth of many of their mobile masts without having to apply for planning permission.
UK government moves to improve telco access to street furniture
Things like streetlights are handy places to put mobile base stations but they can often be hard to access. The UK government is trying to change that.
UK government reportedly plans anti-encryption marketing campaign
The UK state’s obsession with end-to-end encryption shows no sign of abating, with a questionable £0.5 million ad campaign set to be launched.
Vodafone and Three want more UK government help with 5G
Two UK telcos are urging the government to do more to push 5G along, especially in the areas of manufacturing and FWA, for the good of the country of course.
UK government ties itself in knots over social media censorship
The UK government wants to protect us from online horridness but seems confused about how best to go about it while also protecting freedom of speech.
US government decides single-vendor public cloud contracts are a bad idea
The US Department of Defense has decided to cancel its $10 billion cloud contract with Microsoft because it reckons it no longer meets its needs.
FRANC-ly my dear, the UK government does give an OpenRAN
The UK government has launched an initiative designed to speed up the adoption of OpenRAN as part of its quest to erase Huawei from the country’s mobile networks.
UK tries to breathe fresh life into its shared rural network
The UK government issued a press release detailing how great everything will be when the shared rural network is finished.
British luvvies want a new smartphone tax to fund the arts
UK Parliament is apparently considering a new tax on any device that can store digital content with a view to handing the cash over to the arts sector.
UK government bets on Sonic the edge-hog
The ever-generous British taxpayer has chucked a million quid at a new initiative called Sonic Labs, which is designed to give 5G OpenRAN R&D an extra boost.
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