Wednesday, 30 May 2018

UK Home Office considers 'complete shutdown' of emergency services mobile platform

Meeellions could be spent extending Airwave until 'future date' decided for 4G

Exclusive  The UK Home Office is contemplating "a complete or a partial shutdown" of its ambitious programme to shift blue light services off radio and on to 4G, The Register can reveal.…


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Wednesday, 23 May 2018

UK chancellor puts finger in air, promises 15 MEELLION full fibre connections by 2025

Goal to be achieved not with government cash, but 'market conditions'

The UK's chief purse-strings-puller Philip Hammond has pledged 15 million premises will receive full-fibre broadband by 2025, in an apparent bid to boost Britain's fortunes post-Brexit.…


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Tuesday, 22 May 2018

OVH prepares not-discounts to not-match AWS, Azure, et al

As bit barn builds subside, increased quotas and capacity will land at the same price

OVH’s wave of global expansion is nearly done and the company will soon follow other public cloud operators’ leads by cost-cutting for customers.…



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Friday, 18 May 2018

Look how modern we are! UK network Three to kill off 3G-only phones

'An industry-leading approach'

The UK's first 3G network is to stop selling 3G-only devices, a move it says demonstrates how whizzy, modern and farsighted it is.…


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UK ISPs get their marker pens out: Speed advertising's about to change

Oh dear, fewer than half of punters get what they paid for

ISPs are scrambling to tweak advertised broadband speeds as the great unwashed continue to receive services that are on average 51 per cent slower than they were led to expect, according to a Which? report.…


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TalkTalk ups the (dis)satisfaction ante as UK folk wake up to borked email

New approach to dealing with complaints working wonders

TalkTalk's customers woke up this morning to find the UK broadband provider's email service was still fast asleep.…



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Thursday, 17 May 2018

Microsoft's Azure green-lit for use by US spies

Government deal clears the way for a run at JEDI

Microsoft has rolled its tanks onto Amazon’s lawn thanks to a multi-million dollar deal to bring its Azure Government product into 17 US intelligence agencies.…



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1.5m Brits pay too much for mobile and crappy broadband – Ofcom

Wake up, people!

Around 1.5 million Brits are spending more than necessary by continuing to pay the same monthly fee for mobile phones after their contracts have expired.…


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It was thought Carlisle couldn't be worse – then Virgin Media rocked up

ISP fined £385k for cable-laying chaos in northern border city

Virgin Media is facing a £385,000 fine after its cable expansion plans in the northwest of England wreaked havoc on the streets of Carlisle.…


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Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Whois privacy shambles becomes last-minute mad data scramble

Internet address industry given one week to introduce unfinished GDRP policy

Thousands of internet registries and registrars will have just one week to overhaul their customer databases to fit with a policy that is still under development, or face ruinous fines.…


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HPE to gobble software defined data fabric networking startup

Plexxi hoovered up for an undisclosed sum

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to slurp software-defined data fabric networking maker Plexxi for an undisclosed sum.…


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BT bets farm on consumers: Announces one network to rule 'em all

Puts best face on user biz after miserable results in enterprise

Still smarting from last week's dismal annual results, BT today made a raft of announcements for its consumer group, including a converged broadband and mobile network.…


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Verizon commits to AWS after buying and selling its own cloud

Can anyone catch the big three (plus Oracle and IBM?)

Amazon Web Services has announced a new and significant marquee customer: Verizon.…



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Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Pointless US Congress net neutrality vote will take place tomorrow!

Democrats making a difference the only way they know how to

After weeks of teasing, Senate Democrats will finally take decisive action on bringing back net neutrality on Wednesday – by holding a pointless vote.…


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Pentagon on military data-nomming JEDI cloud mind trick: There can be only one (vendor)

Unless offerings 'become... seamlessly integrated'

The Pentagon has doubled down on its plan to hand a megabucks cloud contract to a single vendor.…



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We've found it! A cloud-and-AI angle on the royal wedding

Harry and Meghan's guests to be ID'ed in real time by AWS vid-scrapers, pumped into apps

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be brought to the world with the help of cloudy machine learning.…



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Monday, 14 May 2018

MPs petition for legally binding target of 95% 4G coverage across UK

Bumkins still lag cityzens on connectivity

A group of cross-party MPs have urged digital secretary Matt Hancock to whack a legal obligation on the UK's four mobile operators to provide 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK's landmass by 2022.…


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Friday, 11 May 2018

Date engraved onto Net neutrality tombstone: June 11, 2018

But wait! Is that a shining white knight come to save us all?

So we finally have a date: June 11, 2018.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/11/net_neutrality_date/

AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them

Devs are lapping up Lambda, and this has already redefined the future of computing

"Serverless" didn't get a single mention in Amazon's quarterly earnings call. Neither did its poster child, AWS Lambda. Apparently it's not the sort of thing investors want to hear about, even if the developers that keep dumping cash into Amazon's pockets do.…



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Thursday, 10 May 2018

Data centre down: Budget plane-ride mart Ryanair goes all in with AWS

Not just public cloud services for public cloud servicer

Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is shuttering the "vast majority" of its data centres and moving the infrastructure to AWS.…



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