Cyber Security
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A former US telecom and IT worker was sentenced to four years in prison for passing on information about Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government. -
BT has announced an expansion of its managed secure SD-WAN solution for UK business and public sector customers.
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T-Mobile has confirmed a significant cyber attack allegedly carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, marking the latest in a series of breaches targeting major telecom providers globally.
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US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
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EU cybersecurity experts conducted a series of exercises to test the bloc’s preparedness for large-scale cyber crises.
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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns.
Forthcoming events
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Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister has completed a complete reshuffle of his cabinet seeing 36 new ministers appointed.
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Deutsche Telekom has been identified as offering the most diversified product portfolio for enterprise 5G.
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The number of enterprise 5G projects doubled over the course of the last year, but the share of projects awarded to CSPs declined by 5%.
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Google, Oracle and IBM are likely to compete with both Amazon and Microsoft for a new multibillion dollar cloud contract that the Pentagon will be awarding.
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FiBrasil, the wholesale fibre network jointly owned by Telefónica Group and CDPQ, has gone live in Brazil.
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A UK company has started what it calls the country’s first quantum computing as-a-service (QCaaS) platform.
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KPN plans to build a Netherlands-wide quantum-secure telecoms network using its existing fibre infrastructure.
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The Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE) has appointed Anwar Soussa as the managing director (MD) of the operating company in Ethiopia.
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The military government of Myanmar has banned executives of foreign telecoms operators from leaving the country, as they refused to accept the government’s requirement that they intercept traffic.
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Known as the CEO who turned around Tecnotree, Padma Ravichander tells Melanie Mingas how the refreshed company is getting ahead on a digitalisation drive that will bring opportunities for women beyond the industry
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Built from scratch for those who want sustainability and service, MVNO Honest is the back-of-a-beermat idea on a mission to shake up the UK mobile market. Melanie Mingas talks to CEO and co-founder Andy Aitken
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Liran Weiss, COO of mce Systems, explains why low mobile costs will hurt Israel’s telcos in the long run
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