The scope of the UK government’s surveillance powers is vast, but a recent court ruling has declared aspects of those powers unlawful and could force the government to scale them back. Many of the contentious measures originated with the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA), emergency legislation rushed through Parliament in 2014. That was … Read more

Qualcomm has convened a wide-ranging coalition of industry partners to accelerate the development and global deployment of AI-native 6G networks. The initiative sets a milestone-driven roadmap with commercial availability targeted from 2029 onward. Next-generation cellular systems are being designed from the ground up around artificial intelligence, built on three core pillars: advanced connectivity, wide-area sensing, … Read more

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