Virgin Media fined for spamming users
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That will be £50,000 and a ton of bad publicity

For a while now, at least in Italy, mobile phone companies have believed that they can ring or text you when they like, but now it seems regulators are starting to order them to put the brakes on.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council builds its own 5G private network
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For local businesses

Cellnex UK has been awarded a contract by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council to design and build a 5G private network, consisting of a 5G core network and a Radio Access Network, in Basing View, Basingstoke's central business district.

Kiwi spooks say that satellite spying is so old hat
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Waihopai satellite communications interception station retired before the front falls off 


New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – the nation's signals intelligence and infosec agency is to retire its Waihopai satellite communications interception station.

Daft US telcos are ripping out Huawei and ZTE gear
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And replacing it with something more expensive thanks to the tax payer

US telcos are having to rip out perfectly good Chinese networking gear and replace it with something more expensive and patriotic.

Amazon plans to deliver prototype broadband satellites
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Since there is no one in space it will leave them with a neighbouring galaxy

Amazon plans to launch its first prototype broadband satellites in Q4 2022, which would be nearly four years after SpaceX launched its first prototype Starlink satellites.