Telco

Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems

Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub’s claims

Cyber-crime07 Jun 2024 | 8

Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app

You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles

Software24 Apr 2024 | 3

'How do I reset my router' isn't in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that

Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and UAE will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots

AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 14

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs

Union claims corporate greed behind alliance, firms claim it is about helping customers

Networks26 Jan 2024 | 23

UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge

OK gr8. CU down the pub

Legal14 Nov 2023 | 17

EU plan to make big tech pay 'fair share' of telco fees reportedly weeks away

All traffic is equal but some traffic is more equal than others

Networks12 Jan 2023 | 30

Irish government seeks power to bar 'high risk vendors' from telecoms networks

Amendment to bill doesn’t name Chinese companies ... but is eerily similar to regs that target Huawei and ZTE

Networks31 Oct 2022 | 10

Australia asks FBI to help find attacker who stole data from millions of users

+Comment Apparent perp claims to have deleted swiped info as carrier Optus struggles to get its story straight

Security28 Sep 2022 | 21

Significant customer data exposed in attack on Australian telco

Updated Subscribers have questions – like 'When were you going to tell us?'

Cyber-crime23 Sep 2022 | 14

Software-defined silicon is coming for telecom kit later this year

Interview Startup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective

Networks26 Jun 2022 | 17

Capita scores half a billion pound outsourcing contract, but refuses to name (or shame?) lucky 'European telco' customer

Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship?

Networks15 Jun 2021 | 9

Readers of a certain age will remember GPRS: Old insecure tech from turn of millennium still haunts 5G networks

Positive Technologies analysts less than positive about GTP

Security10 Jun 2020 | 13

New York Attorney General probes Charter over claims it forced staff to work in offices amid coronavirus pandemic

Workers complain to The Register of unnecessary COVID-19 risk

Networks21 Apr 2020 | 9

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

UK volumes quieter than mix of Call of Duty and Merseyside derby streamers, says Openreach

Networks27 Mar 2020 | 25

Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors

Stock price dives as Wall St learns of trouble overseas and weak outlook

Networks15 Aug 2019 | 58

What the cell...? Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn't notice the hackers setting up VPN points

Revealed: Long-running espionage campaign targets phone carriers to snoop on VIPs' location, call records

Security25 Jun 2019 | 62

Did someone forget to tell NTT about Brexit? Japanese telco eyes London for global HQ

By the time we sort that mess out it'll be ready to move again

On-Prem16 Apr 2019 | 48

Why millions of Brits' mobile phones were knackered on Thursday: An expired Ericsson software certificate

Swede Jesus!

Networks06 Dec 2018 | 146

Huawei wants to print data centres for telcos to fling at governments

ShapeCloud scheme to build bit barns on demand

Networks05 Sep 2018 |

While you're preparing to carve Thanksgiving turkey, the FCC will be slicing into net neutrality

Analysis Pai will lay out plan this week, vote in December

Networks21 Nov 2017 | 37

Remember how you said it was cool if your mobe network sold your name, number and location?

No? Well, never mind, because it's for your own protection

Security16 Oct 2017 | 33

Telco forgot to renew its web domain, broke deaf folks' video calls – now gets a $3m paddlin'

Sorenson dinged after cockup blocked emergency calls

Legal29 Sep 2017 | 29

Democrats (still a thing, apparently) are super unhappy about AT&T's Time-Warner merger

Busting up telcos is on LOSER party's agenda. SAD!

Legal24 Jul 2017 | 28

Let's go live to the 3rd circle of Hell – and see what Comcast and Charter are screwing up

Allegations of digging up rivals' cables, breaking promises

Networks22 Jun 2017 | 14

AT&T cuts fresh deal with 17,000 CWA strike-threat union workers

But labor worries aren't over yet

Legal05 Jun 2017 |

40,000-plus AT&T staff threaten to strike Friday

CWA says members in 36 states prepping for stoppage

Personal Tech18 May 2017 | 21

O (n^2) Canada! Code bugs knacker buses, TV, broadband, phone lines

Like their hockey teams, Canadian systems went down this week eh

Software28 Apr 2017 | 25

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Met cops gloat after pair admits to pilfering subscriber records

Security27 Apr 2017 | 28

Got Ancient exploit but nowhere to use it? Try the horrid GRX network

Ruxcon Audio: Aussie hacker shows even NSA hacks haven't schooled some telcos

Security26 Oct 2016 |

Graduate recruitment site exposed 50,000 CVs sent to Virgin Media UK

Kid schools telco: 'So have you heard of access controls?'

Security25 Oct 2016 | 28

3,500 Verizon call center workers can't hear you now

Telco plans to board up seven US facilities

Networks13 Oct 2016 | 9

After AT&T's crushing blow, FTC tells Senate it wants its balls back

US watchdog still feeling sore after being stripped of powers to punish telcos

Networks28 Sep 2016 | 12

T-Mobile USA leaked free access to sites with '/speedtest' in the URL

High school slacker hacker gets LTE for free

Networks19 Sep 2016 | 15

EFF vows to take up muni broadband cause after FCC denied

Digital crusaders warm up efforts to build city-owned networks

Networks15 Aug 2016 | 2

UK telco market worth £37.5bn, Ofcom reports

Breaking Bad was the most-streamed series of 2015

Channel04 Aug 2016 | 6

I'm good, I'm fine, solid quarter, real well ... pants Sprint as it limps past, spilling $300m

'Most new customers in nine years'

On-Prem25 Jul 2016 | 6

Zen loses its chill: UK biz ISP falls offline for four hours and counting

Updated TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Upset Punters

Channel25 Jul 2016 | 25

Using Comcast biz phones? Hope you liked your afternoon off

Business service goes dark amid mystery outage

On-Prem12 Jul 2016 | 5

Keep up the pressure on the telcos, Canada

Sysadmin Blog Connecting Canada is a slow and political process

Networks12 Jul 2016 | 33

Here's how to SMS spam Liberal voters and get away with it

Bulk SMS sender, Tails, Tor, and some free WiFi

Security04 Jul 2016 | 7

FCC starts running from cable box rip-off kill-off

Has the regulator finally bitten off more than it can chew?

Legal30 Jun 2016 | 6

Loop Dreams: Top college talents showcase their skills … in cabling

Remember these names, they'll be running copper in the big leagues soon

Networks30 Jun 2016 | 6

T-Mobile Czech ad man steals, sells, 1.5 million customer records

Clients might get even more spam, MD says

Security20 Jun 2016 | 19

It's a Hull of a thing: Kcom takes a break from 8-year sales slide

Sidles up to the enterprise: Psst, want some IP?

Channel27 May 2016 | 8

Florida man, Chinese biz fined $48k, $35m on mobe signal jam raps

Wham, jam, pay Uncle Sam

Legal26 May 2016 | 25

Australian Federal Police say government ignorant of NBN raids

Confirms target was Labor members, rejects claims the timing of the raids was political

Legal20 May 2016 | 12

Verizon worker strike now in its third week

Disgruntled staff still holding out as stoppage drags on

Networks03 May 2016 | 18

Optus patches crap credential cock-up in cable modems

Quick fix pushed in less than a three weeks.

Security04 Apr 2016 | 2

A third of Australians lose mobile services after Telstra outage

Eight million people affected by reconnection flood

Networks17 Mar 2016 | 8

Ever heard of 'multi-cloud'? Get with cool kids – it's the New Big Thing™

Comment Hybrid cloud is so basic

Channel15 Mar 2016 | 19

Competition? No way! AT&T says it will sue to keep Google Fiber out of Louisville, Kentucky

Updated Telco files to block city from letting ad giant climb its poles

On-Prem26 Feb 2016 | 49

If you're going to protect people's privacy, protect our profits, too – US broadband biz to FCC

We need ways to snoop, er, innovate

Networks12 Feb 2016 | 19

Research: By 2017, a third of home Wi-Fi routers will power passers-by

Telcos pimp out your bandwidth and profit

Networks29 Jan 2016 | 51

Kentucky to build 3,400-mile state-owned broadband network – and a fight is brewing

Bonkers bluegrass broadband backbone battle brings bundled bluster, boisterous bickering

Networks25 Jan 2016 | 47

NBN opens 400 tech jobs in looming second Melbourne security shop

Garden State becomes Security State.

Legal07 Dec 2015 | 2

Oz Govt calls for more talk on telco network security laws

We've listened, says Attorney-General, but we still want network plans

Legal27 Nov 2015 | 1