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On the one hand, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is warring with the US over trade sanctions, including suing Verizon over its misuse of its patents. Verizon has replied that Huawei is taking “credit for American innovation” with baseless suits over “outdated and valueless” patents. But, on the other hand, Huawei just opened up its more […] More
Google has decided to sunset the Neighbourly community app due to poor user engagement. The tech giant says that starting May 12, Neighbourly Beta will stop working and access to the mobile application will be removed. See also: UK police criticized for using drones to publicly shame walkers in coronavirus lockdown Neighbourly Beta was launched in […] More
Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has lifted the lid on how its network has been performing as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the planet. On Thursday, NBN said it was starting a new weekly report to show the highest data throughput across three time periods. Over […] More
No one wants a naked man barging into a virtual classroom video conference, but that’s what happened in Norway-based class using the WhereBy service. Here, in the US, the enormously popular Zoom video-conferencing service meetings are getting attacked so often there’s even a phrase for it: Zoombombing. Indeed, it’s gotten so bad that the FBI […] More
When you think of Chinese 5G smartphone superpower Huawei and intellectual property (IP), your first thoughts are of the US Department of Justice charging Huawei with racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets. Or, if you follow intellectual property (IP) issues closely, you’d recall that Huawei has made $6 billion in patent royalties since 2001 […] More
Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced it would pause its NBN entry-level access pricing and wholesale service standards inquiries to allow the industry to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the planet. At the same time, the consumer watchdog also released a position paper on each inquiry. The […] More
The federal government has amended legislation to allow telco carriers to deploy temporary facilities, including cells on wheels and networks on wheels, as “low-impact facilities” in certain circumstances such as during emergencies, events, peak holiday periods, and the maintenance or replacement of existing facilities. Under the amended Telecommunications (Low-impact Facilities) Determination 2018 and the Telecommunications Code of Practice […] More
Image: Spark New Zealand telco Spark has said its network is now seeing what it calls a “7-day weekend”, with increasing numbers of people working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the planet. The telco said its daytime broadband load has almost doubled, with peak broadband demand hitting 27% above normal levels, while […] More
