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Virgin Media has admitted it "fell short" in delivering broadband speeds ahead of a BBC Watchdog report due to air tonight which found customers in some areas receive 3 per cent of the 200Mbps speed they were originally sold.

Kat Hall, 05 Jul 2017

UK.gov tips £400m into digital investment pot

The UK government has today launched its £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, aimed at boosting Blighty's full-fibre infrastructure.

Kat Hall, 03 Jul 2017

Let's go live to the 3rd circle of Hell – and see what Comcast and Charter are screwing up

Allegations of digging up rivals' cables, breaking promises

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22 Jun 20:52

Research suggests UK consumers find 'fibre' advertising misleading

Alt-net providers call for ads to be reviewed

45 Comments

22 Jun 11:54

Yes, this is our third Cisco story of the day. It's about 23 bugs you need to fix, stat

Troll your WebEx-loving execs with a crafted recording file

22 Jun 07:02

Cisco's 'encrypted traffic fingerprinting' turned into a product

Borg's boxen can now figure out if there's malware lurking in encrypted traffic

14 Comments

22 Jun 04:57

Arista-cats nearly out of the bag as redesigned products okayed

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again

22 Jun 01:02

TalkTalk customers complain of being unable to load Amazon website

Issue ongoing since last week

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21 Jun 14:54

Costa Rica complains of US govt harassment over Pirate Bay domain

Registry operator points finger at US embassy staffer

19 Comments

20 Jun 20:08

Cisco hops on machine learning bandwagon with new switches

Switchzilla wants to make 'intuitive' switches that charge you by the month

20 Jun 19:54

Microsoft says Skype outages are over – a few hours too early

Global Skype outages spill over onto a second day

20 Jun 18:48

Juniper puts an Enforcer on the door and adds Cisco to the guest list

The gin palace's security management code has gone cross-platform

20 Jun 01:58

Israel gets spooky with national quantum lab

Plan is to spin up single photons as a comms medium

19 Jun 06:34

Man looking up spiral staircase inside deltalis mountain data centre

Internet boffins take aim at BGP route leaks

Routers should know their place

12 Comments

19 Jun 03:57

Ofcom fines Three £1.9m over vulnerability in emergency call handling

999 requests funnelled through single data centre

20 Comments

16 Jun 09:01

Opinion

News

Openreach to comms providers: Why can't we be friends?

Reformed monopoly wants to 'get much closer' to partners

13 Comments

15 Jun 15:13

Now you can 'roam like at home' within the EU, but what's the catch?

And what about Brexit, huh?

80 Comments

15 Jun 09:03

Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G

CommentMobile natives are getting restless

16 Comments

15 Jun 08:32

Small carriers aren't showing up to IPv6 standards chats, consultant warns

And that means useful stuff could be left out of customer premises equipment

21 Comments

15 Jun 02:58

Nokia snatches clump of 16nm FinFETs, crafts 576 Tbps monster router

That's a lot of porn

14 Jun 16:35

BT's Ryan Reynolds helicopter Wi-Fi ads 'misleading', thunders ad watchdog

But it's OK to boast about length in the lab. Got it?

38 Comments

14 Jun 08:02

Just days after tech community abandons plans to punish internet shutdowns… Egypt goes censorship crazy

What do you need news for, anyway? 'It shouldn't be a problem' – NTRA official

12 Comments

13 Jun 20:40

Farewell, slumping 40Gbps Ethernet, we hardly knew ye

IDC's network tracker finds 100 Gbps and software-defined kit surging, at Cisco's expense

23 Comments

13 Jun 03:58

Two leading ladies of Europe warn that internet regulation is coming

We can probably ignore Theresa May, but Angela Merkel wants digital rules

51 Comments

12 Jun 20:49

Situation normal, blurts T-Mobile, while network continues to crap itself

Someone should inform the marketing team

14 Comments

12 Jun 14:24

Cumulus Networks adds validation with NetQ

Agents that don't wait for polling

07 Jun 01:58

Peplink patches SD-WAN routers

Get busy: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and more

06 Jun 04:03

If you live in a network lab, you'll get gigabit NBN over HFC soon

Cable networks' upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 inches a step closer

14 Comments

05 Jun 23:39

EU wins approval to waste €120m on pitiful public Wi-Fi

Opinion€120m for the bin...

24 Comments

05 Jun 08:01

ViaSat lofts world's most powerful communications satellite into orbit

Hitches ride with Ariane after SpaceX drops the ball

14 Comments

01 Jun 22:48

Giffgaff 'roam like at home' package means £1/min calls in Jersey

More like Giffgaffe... but good news if you're going to Spain

35 Comments

01 Jun 10:33

Extreme Networks confirms it's buying Avaya's network biz

'Approximately US$100m' to change hands for assets hoped to generate $200m a year

01 Jun 03:02

Europe to splash €120m on free WiFi for ~8,000 villages and cities

Liberté, égalité, connectivité

33 Comments

31 May 06:36

Datacenter deep dives

Spotlight

Facebook's whitebox-all-the-network-things TIP project flexes tentacles

Millimetre wave.. omigerd it's going nowherrr.. Apple, you say?

Little girl concentrates hard on a book she's reading

Not that scary or that hard: Two decades of VLANS

Can VMware exploit its VRealize refresh?

BOFH: Putting the commitment into committee

Cloud may be the future, but it ain't all sunshine and rainbows

Pure suggests dishing out intelligence to dumb storage shelves

Migrating to Microsoft's cloud: What they won't tell you, what you need to know

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