Aussie Broadband runs dark fibre through Sydney Harbour Tunnel

Episode 002 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Gigi Sohn joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss broadband access in the United States – or the lack thereof. Gigi explains the choices American policymakers and tech companies made that have caused millions to lack access to reliable broadband, and what steps we need to take to fix the problem now. In this episode you’ll learn:

Five Years Ago This week in 2015, the UK government released its “Snooper’s Charter” surveillance bill after pretending it had backed down on the worst provisions when in fact the bill mandated backdoors to encryption and aimed to legalize over a decade of illegal mass surveillance. In the US, documents from the DOJ confirmed the extensive powers of Stingray devices, while legislators were movi

Chorus will push the Commerce Commission to make wireless broadband providers disclose performance data for their services, CEO JB Rousselot said today.

As the world prepares to see the promise of 5G being realized at scale, it also makes sense for risk management professionals to think outside the box. It is not hyperbole to call 5G an inflection point in the history of telecom. With unprecedented technical capabilities, 5G also allows for the realization of very innovative business models.{loadads} But along with these unprecedented capabilities

Nordic vendor will help manage 50 per cent of 5G traffic going through BT and its EE provider Ericsson has won a huge contract to provide technology for BT's 5G networks in major cities across the UK. The Swedish firm said it would eventually manage 50 per cent of traffic across BT’s network, as well as across its EE brand. 🇬🇧 @Ericsson has been selected as BT’s #5G partner for Lond

Overall percentage of subscribers provisioned for gigabit speed increased 133% to nearly 5% in the second quarter of 2020. Source: 2Q20 OpenVault Broadband Insights The statistics concerning the number of gigabit fiber customers in the US is eye-opening. OpenVault tracks the percentage of customers provisioned at various broadband speeds. At the end of 2019, the company reported that 2.81% of a

The web is full of stories of rural areas with no broadband options, and I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few decades helping rural areas get better broadband. There has not been nearly as much coverage of the huge broadband gap in urban areas. There are a lot of urban homes that can’t afford broadband and, in many cases, got bypassed when the telcos and/or cable companies built their networks

This post is the second in a series about our new State of Communications Privacy Laws report, a set of questions and answers about privacy and data protection in eight Latin American countries and Spain. The series’ first post was “A Look-Back and Ahead on Data Protection in Latin America and Spain.” The reports cover Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, and Spain.

Some 5.8 million customer records stolen from Singapore-based hotel company RedDoorz have been found for sale on the dark web following the company being hacked in September. RedDoorz, formally named Commeasure Pte. Ltd., which offers hotels across Southeast Asia, disclosed the hack Sept. 28. It said at the time only that it was aware that one of its information [] The post 5.8M records from hotel