
US 5G is total rubbish
Even if it is more available
While users in the land of the fee are spending more time on 5G than anywhere else in the world, the service is rubbish, according to a new report released by Ookla.

Virgin Media fined for spamming users
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.

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
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
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.