Networking

Tonga’s two-week period without a working subsea cable to Fiji has ended. The cable had originally fallen over on January 20, and a second fault was subsequently found; however, RadioNZ reported on Saturday that the connection to the main island has been restored. On Friday afternoon, the Tongan government had ...

UPDATED: January 2019 Last September, consumers began to see the first service bundles offered by telecommunications companies in their area, marketed with some form of the term “5G.” “5G is here,” declared Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg, specifically for cities such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis where rival AT&T had already ...

Analogue mobile phones first appeared in the early 1980s, and were used for voice calls only (imagine that!). Second-generation (2G) digital mobiles made their debut a decade later with GSM, offering text messaging (SMS) as the ‘killer application’ on top of voice services, becoming the dominant technology worldwide. A roughly ...

(Image: SES Networks) The subsea cable that provides Tonga with broadband, and connects to the Southern Cross Cable via Fiji, has suffered a pair of cuts. Both were in shallow water, with satellite connectivity provider SES Networks stating the cause could have been anchors. The island has been without its ...

The Super Bowl is fun to watch for some, but if you’re not pumped about the New England Patriots or the Los Angeles Rams, you may be more interested in the big game’s fluffier versions also happening on Sunday: The Puppy Bowl and the Kitten Bowl. Also: Super Bowl LIII: Football players ...

AT&T delivered mixed fourth quarter results as earnings matched expectations, but revenue fell short. Like Verizon, AT&T’s fourth quarter sales fell short. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $4.9 billion, or 66 cents a share, on revenue of $48 billion. Adjusted earnings were 86 cents a share. Wall Street ...

Verizon Verizon reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as it added 1.2 million retail postpaid customers as it preps for a broad 5G network rollout. Revenue, however, fell short of expectations.  The company reported fourth quarter earnings of 47 cents a share on revenue of $34.3 billion, up 1 percent from ...

The date for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to make a decision on the merger between TPG and Vodafone Australia has been pushed out from March 28, to potentially April 11. In an update on the merger posted on Tuesday, the consumer watchdog said its decision will be ...

The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has put forward a recommendation that consumers should receive automatic compensation when a telecommunications provider misses an appointment or is unable to resolve an outage within a determined timeframe. “Payments for connections and repairs outside the maximum timeframes should be automatic by both ...

Cisco has disclosed a critical vulnerability in its SD-WAN Solution that allows for arbitrary code execution as the root user. Improper bounds checking by the vContainer allowed for potential authenticated attackers to send malicious files to an affected instance, which can cause a buffer overflow on the vContainer and create ...