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Sharing isn’t easy. It’s difficult to move photos from one social network to another or storage. Now, Facebook and Google have made it simple to copy your Facebook photos to Google Photos. This is the first fruit of an open-source project, the Data Transfer Project, to make it much easier to trade photos and other […] More
Due to the global pandemic, many people familiar with a managed office Wi-Fi network have been acclimating the vagaries of using bandwidth-intensive applications that contend with other network traffic generated by other people and devices on the home network. Depending on the state of your router and internet access, there may be several levers you […] More
ICANN, the non-profit in charge of web addresses, has rejected the proposed $1.1bn sale of the non-profit registry that controls .org domain names to private equity firm Ethos Capital. The Internet Society, which operates the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR) for .org domains, announced plans in November to sell the registry to Ethos Capital. Networking There […] More
Bushfires taking out electricity transmission infrastructure was far more responsible for telecommunication outages than direct fire damage, a report prepared by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found. Looking at the period from 19 December 2019 to 31 January 2020, the peak of Australia’s recent black summer of fires, ACMA said only 3% […] More
Ericsson has announced it has inked another China Mobile deal, extending its 5G radio access network (RAN) partnership and charged with 5G core components for the second phase of the telco’s nationwide new radio (NR) standalone rollout. The 5G RAN partnership will extend to 17 provinces, and use the Ericsson Radio System solution. Ericsson will […] More
Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet Telstra announced on Friday its mobile network was “end-to-end enabled” with support for standalone 5G. 5G networks can offer non-standalone 5G, with uses of 5G radios with a 4G core, or standalone mode which replaces the 4G core with a 5G core. The telco said it had upgraded its 5G radio network […] More
Comcast added 477,000 broadband customers in the first quarter amid the shift to remote work and education during the COVID-19 pandemic even as it lost video customers. Comcast × comcast-q1-2020.png In the first quarter, Comcast showed strong broadband growth as its media and theme park businesses were hit by stay-at-home orders. The company added 371,000 […] More
Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has announced it would extend its free CVC boost to retailers until the end of July. In mid-March, NBN said as a response to the coronavirus pandemic that ISPs would be able to increase the amount of capacity they purchase by […] More
