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Getty Images/iStockphoto Can you really buy a month’s worth of quality web hosting for less than the price of a Starbucks Grande cappuccino? Indeed you can, as we discovered when researching the web hosting services in this buyer’s guide. The average advertised monthly price for the 10 hosting providers we looked at is a low, […] More
Brazil’s Ministry of Communications has been recreated and a new minister has taken over to lead agendas such as the country’s upcoming 5G auction. The son-in-law of a well-known Brazilian TV presenter, Fábio Faria was named the new communications minister yesterday (17). Faria will be accountable for the national telecommunications policy, as well as the […] More
The United States has announced it has amended the ban on US companies doing business with Huawei. The move entails allowing US companies to share information about technologies with Huawei for the purpose of developing joint standards without requiring an export licence. US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said, however, that the change in policy […] More
Sick of being stuck with low internet speeds out in the sticks? Want to free yourself from your low-quality rural cable, DSL, or — you poor devil — modem charges and speeds? SpaceX is finally cracking open the door to its Starlink low-earth orbit (LEO) internet service. The June 13 launch carried 58 Starlink satellites […] More
For many people working from home, VPN connections are a source of frustration because unless they’ve been set up with split tunnelling to separate traffic that needs to be on the corporate network from general web browsing, there’s seldom enough bandwidth to go around. But individual users are using VPNs to keep their IP address […] More
Image: Singtel NEC has been appointed by the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium to build a 9,400-kilometre submarine cable that will connect Hong Kong, China’s Guangdong province, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Scheduled to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2022, the cable will be designed to carry more than 140Tbps of […] More
(Image: NBN) The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has detailed why 500 premises across the South Australian electorates of Boothby and Mayo were shifted onto satellites and did not get fixed line or fixed wireless service. Responding to Senate Estimates Questions on Notice, NBN said in Mayo it had […] More
The New Zealand Ministry of Education (MoE) has signed on CommScope to deliver Wi-Fi 6 connectivity to 2,500 schools across the country under a NZ$28 million contract. As part of the deal, CommScope will deploy up to 38,000 Wi-Fi 6 access points and 12,000 multi-gig switches to enable faster and reliable connection across multiple connected […] More
