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Here’s a brief summary of the news this week which didn’t make it into a dedicated article: Ofcom pursuing 4chan over lack of information Ofcom has issued 4chan with a ‘provisional notice of contravention’ under Section 130 of the Online Safety Act 2023 following concerns about breaches of duties under s102(8) of the Act which […]

Openreach is intending to convert the majority of its EV fleet as part of its plans to be carbon neutral by March 2031. Just over a year ago they celebrated the 4,000 EV milestone and now another 1,000 vehicles in the fleet have been replaced by electric vehicles. The Openreach vehicle fleet is around 23,000 […]

We have looked at the performance of in-flight wi-fi before which has over the past decade been rather variable to be mild. One of the main problems has been the patchy coverage which has made many ‘interactive’ applications difficult if not impossible to use with variable latency affecting service as well. Ookla have published results […]

The government is announcing a ‘Reuse for Good’ charter today to recycle used equipment from companies, but rather than breaking them into parts they want to use them as is. Companies like VodafoneThree and Deloitte have already signed up along with the Good Things Foundation, to promote using ‘pre-loved’ tech to the digitally excluded. Corporations […]

BT had this morning published the results of a study with Be the Business showing that 39% of SMEs have not arranged cyber security training, noting that 42% of small businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past year, and over two thirds of medium-sized companies. These statistics are from the Be the Business […]

Last week, we reported that the review on national security was going to include government spending on rural broadband as ‘defence’ spending to bring the UK up to the 5% of GDP target on defence spending. This originally was based on a report in The Telegraph. Resilient ubiquitous telecommunications infrastructure can play a key role […]

Hollow Core Fibre (HCF) is a type of fibre optic cable which uses an air-filled centre core rather than the more common glass core of fibre optic cables. This significantly reduces the interaction between the laser light and the fibre material thus reducing latency, distortion and signal loss. It’s not something we’re seeing in most […]

The PSTN switch off is getting closer to its conclusion in 2027 and a new campaign has launched to urge those with telecare devices to contact their landline provider to seek additional help. For millions of us the PSTN switch off and moving of telephone lines to be digital voice based and arriving via our […]

The ntlworld.com domain which provides e-mail for many long-standing Internet users appears to have stopped working.

While some may think the bulk of the work on the full fibre rollouts is completed, there is still lots of work ahead and the need for people working in utilities rollouts represents an opportunity.