It’s fair to say that the rollout of 5G hasn’t been a huge success.
Network operators have effectively been hobbled by Ofcom only auctioning off part of the 3.4GHz spectrum.
This has been caused by legal action from O2, which prevented ...
It’s been 150 years since engineers first developed a system for allowing electronic devices to output sound to a pair of headphones via a plug-in lead.
Developed in the 1870s for switchboard operators in the fledgling telephone network, ...
It’s fair to say apps are big business nowadays.
The global app market is expected to generate three billion dollars in revenue during 2020, with two thirds of the world’s population now in possession of a mobile phone.
And while a sign...
The Noughties was a time of seismic social and technological change.
It brought broadband into our homes, heralded public adoption of WiFi, saw the creation and emergence of social media, and established email as arguably the communication ...
As the UK’s lockdown drags interminably on, with only modest relaxations to an unprecedented economic shutdown, it’s easy to focus on the here and now.
Yet the long-term ramifications of lockdown could last for years, or even decades.
M...
There was a time when websites attempted to distinguish themselves with landing pages.
The online equivalent of a book’s dust jacket, landing pages added nothing to the content within, but they were intended to look pretty.
This was an ag...
With the news headlines dominated by the economic damage the ongoing lockdown is causing, another significant financial story may have passed you by.
In normal times, Virgin Media and O2’s proposed £31 billion merger into one of Europe...
In the 1990s, it was common to buy a mobile phone with a network’s logo emblazoned across the chassis.
Handsets were often exclusive to a particular network, while the network operators themselves were reluctant to let customers switch to...
More than two years after discovery, Google has finally acknowledged that a number of its budget Android smartphone models have been compromised by cybercriminals, with backdoor malware being pre-installed prior to distribution to customers...
Some of the UK’s leading mobile phone operators are seeking urgent clarification on the government’s position over the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
In a draft letter to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, seen by the BBC and intended to b...
