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The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia announced on Friday it had created a AU$150 million relief fund for low-income households with children at school and struggling small and medium-sized businesses. The package will comprise of three parts valued at AU$50 million each: One part is aimed at getting school-aged […] More
The US now has 31,000 dead from the coronavirus. There are also 22 million unemployed, and the Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan program is out of money. But, against the constant darkness of bad news, there is one shining point of good news: The internet keeps going and going and going. […] More
Cisco has gone ahead and disclosed a critical flaw in a range of its internet protocol (IP) phones. However, it had originally wanted to break from its own 90-day disclosure policy due to “extenuating circumstances” created by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Like Google, Cisco’s policy is to publicly disclose security bugs found in its own […] More
StarHub is being investigated for two broadband service disruptions that lasted hours on Wednesday and during a time when many of its customers are working from home amidst a COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore. The country’s industry regulator says it has begun reviewing the incident and will mete out penalties if the telco is found to […] More
Hospitals rely on wired and wireless networks to provide the backbone of mission-critical medical resources like smartbeds, monitors, EMRs, smart tablets, and telehealth. That backbone is being tested in ways it never has before, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Medical providers and hospitals are being forced to rapidly redesign systems to respond to the […] More
Samsung announced on Tuesday that it had pushed a total of 8.5Gbps to a pair of mobile phones under lab conditions. The test used 800MHz of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum and carrier aggregations with MU-MIMO (multi-user multiple-input multiple-output) to deliver approximately 4.3Gbps to each of the devices. Samsung said the test showed mmWave was capable […] More
Like many large, well-established companies, Verizon at the start of this year had a business continuity and disaster recovery (BD/CR) plan in place that could see it through just about any kind of calamity. “Our company’s been around for quite a long time, so we’ve seen the SARS epidemic, H1N1, MERS, we were around for […] More
Cisco announced Tuesday that it’s launching a $2.5 billion financial relief program to help its customers and partners mitigate the economic challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new financial program — offered through Cisco Capital, the vendor financing business within Cisco — features a 90-day payment holiday that allows customers to defer 95% of […] More
