You may have seen recent news stories about a UK customer who received two phone bills totaling an astonishing £19,000. Initially the carrier sought payment, but it later emerged that a device fault had caused the handset to send and receive unusually large amounts of data. Once the cause was confirmed, the charge was waived. … Read more

Piracy has long challenged creators across media, and while it’s widely condemned, it has sometimes pushed industries to evolve—most notably music. Now major studios such as Disney and Sony are experimenting with streaming new films while they remain in theaters, testing whether a similar transformation could work for movies. To understand why this shift might … Read more

SK Telecom has released a new compact AI language model, AX 3.1 Lite, on Hugging Face as part of its effort to make large language models practical on smartphones and other resource-constrained devices. The model contains 7 billion parameters and is an evolution of AX 3.0 Lite, previously used in SKT’s A.Dot voice assistant. AX … Read more

London police have arrested two people in connection with a scheme that used an “SMS blaster” to send thousands of fraudulent text messages. The messages impersonated banks and official organisations and attempted to trick recipients into revealing personal and financial information. Investigators, who say this is likely the first case of its kind in the … Read more

MWC19 The GSMA has looked ahead and identified a major trend shaping the future of mobile: 5G adoption is accelerating. According to the GSMA’s 2019 Global Mobile Economy report, 5G is expected to represent roughly 15% of global mobile connections by 2025. That forecast is driven by continued network launches throughout the year and expanding … Read more

Communications infrastructure provider Arqiva has announced the purchase of an additional 28 GHz spectrum license as it prepares for the UK’s first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). The 28 GHz band is already in use for FWA in leading 5G research markets such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Arqiva’s … Read more

(Image Credit: iStockPhoto/Courtney Keating) Looking back at LTE deployment, 2015 felt slow for many rollout teams, but it was far from stagnant. Major carriers like Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile continued network buildouts, providing steady work for engineers and technicians. While LTE coverage from the large operators is largely in place, 3G will not disappear overnight … Read more

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has declared that websites using .com and .net domains fall under its jurisdiction, regardless of where their servers are located. Erik Barnett, assistant deputy director at ICE, explained that any site suspected of distributing U.S. films, music, or other media protected by intellectual property laws — and … Read more

Nokia reported its quarterly results on Thursday, and the numbers suggest that bans and restrictions on Huawei’s 5G equipment are increasing demand for alternative suppliers. In the fourth quarter, Nokia recorded profits of £652 million ($852 million), up from £629 million ($822 million) a year earlier. Revenue rose three percent to £6 billion ($7.8 billion). … Read more

Since their introduction in the early 1990s, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) have become a dependable revenue source within the telecommunications market. Interest in the MVNO model has fluctuated over recent years but has surged lately. This renewed attention spans a variety of service types — from data-focused MVNOs supporting machine-to-machine (M2M) applications to cloud-based … Read more