Japan sets action plan to lower mobile phone fees

ATT and Verizon secured arguably one of the biggest regulatory benefits from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with the agency ending the last remnants of telecom competition law. In return for this massive gift from the federal government, they will give the public absolutely nothing. A Little Bit of Telecom History When the Department of Justice successfully broke up the ATT monopoly

Right now the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Broadband Council are collecting public comments to create the California Broadband Plan, per Governor Newsom’s Executive Order 73-20. The order’s purpose is to find a way to deliver 100 mbps-capable Internet connections to around 2 million Californians who lack access to at least one high-speed connection. These Californians

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.

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is [X]. Researchers in Australia unlocked internet speeds high enough to download “more than 1,000 high-definition movies in less than a second,” said BBC​. Using a single fiber-optic wire linked between two campuses in Melbourne, the team “logged a data speed of 44.2 terabits per sec

Facebook’s Oculus users are frustrated over mandatory Facebook accounts, new rules in the U.K. stop mobile networks from selling locked phones, and cities are taking new approaches to take back their housing from Airbnb. It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Wednesday, October 28, and I’m your host The post Hashtag Trending - Facebook Oculus frustration

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

When Michael Bishop, senior network engineer with SolarWinds, was tasked with upgrading the IT Management company’s global network, the goals included improving network management and visibility while lowering the costs of its legacy MPLS infrastructure. Bishop says the company accomplished all of that and more by deploying the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect™ software-defined wide-area networking (

Camarillo-based wireless internet service provider (WISP) GeoLinks has scored private equity backing, saying on Tuesday that it has received private equity funding from Rock Mountain Capital. Size of the investment was not announced. According to GeoLinks, the funding will go twoards network expansion plans, plus go to strategic acquisition and to streamline internal growth and operations. GeoLink

The Darling Downs (Photo: Paul Budde) In October 2020, I went on a two-week tour into Queensland’s Outback, traveling through various landscapes from pastoral and agricultural lands to savanna and the desert. Leaving Brisbane, past Toowoomba, you enter the Darling Downs. This is one of the richest agricultural areas in Australia. British Botanist Alan Cunningham first explored it in 1827. H