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34 votes
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Funding shortfall for new tech endangers rural cell service, US FCC says
8 votes -
We need to rewild the internet
18 votes -
Internet outage hits several African countries as undersea cables fail
29 votes -
AT&T widespread cell phone outage in US
27 votes -
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” but concealed from lawyers and judges
104 votes -
What we discovered on ‘Deep YouTube’ – The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure.
33 votes -
The hidden world of undersea cables
15 votes -
All cops are broadcasting. TETRA unlocked after decades in the shadows.
26 votes -
A new internet standard called L4S could significantly lower the amount of time we spend waiting for things to load
37 votes -
TikTok pledges €12B European investment over ten years as work on Norwegian data center begins
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4G networks - does SMS and standard voice calls still work if 3G/2G networks are shutting down?
Hey all, Over here in Australia (imagine in USA and a few other countries), the 3G/2G mobile networks are being shutdown. My carrier Vodafone is gradually shutting its down with Dec 15th 2023...
Hey all,
Over here in Australia (imagine in USA and a few other countries), the 3G/2G mobile networks are being shutdown. My carrier Vodafone is gradually shutting its down with Dec 15th 2023 being the final closure date. The 4G network will have VolTE but my device (LG V20) does not appear to support VolTE nor does it look like i can update the firmware easily (if at all) to do so.
Anyone else have this issue with their phone? (i realise it will be older ones)
Question about VolTE though - will sms and standard voice calling still work on 4G on my device or similar devices without VolTE ?.
thanks
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The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education
29 votes -
The movement for affordable, community-led broadband: Grassroots organizations like NYC Mesh want to close the digital divide, one rooftop at a time
20 votes -
Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some UK datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times
16 votes -
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
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Why the floppy disk just won't die
61 votes -
Where do you see the future of IT going?
So, what's the hottest new thing in IT today, what's that coolest new tech which might prove to be a goldmine some years down the line? The way PCs, websites, databases, programming languages,...
So, what's the hottest new thing in IT today, what's that coolest new tech which might prove to be a goldmine some years down the line? The way PCs, websites, databases, programming languages, etc. used to be in the 90s or mobile computing used to be in 00s? Early 00s gave us many a goodies in terms of open source innovations, be it Web Technologies, Linux advancement and propagation through the masses or FOSS software like Wordpress and Drupal, or even the general attitude and awareness about FOSS. Bitcoin also deserves a notable mention here, whether you love it or hate it.
But today, I think IT no longer has that spark it once had. People keep mulling around AI, ML and Data Science but these are still decades old concepts, and whatever number crunching or coding the engineers are doing somehow doesn't seem to reach the masses? People get so enthusiastic about ChatGPT, but at the end of the day it's just another software like a zillion others. I deem it at par with something like Wordpress, probably even lesser. I'm yet to see any major adoption or industry usage for it.
Is it the case that IT has reached some kind of saturation point? Everything that could have been innovated, at least the low hanging fruits, has already been innovated? What do you think about this?
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Chinese EV maker NIO has opened its first European "Power Swap Station" in Denmark – drivers can stop to replace their battery with a fully charged one
13 votes -
Micro datacenters begin trials as commercial heating units
19 votes -
A flock of chickens, held for ransom — Growing cyberattacks on Canada's food system threaten disaster
9 votes -
The lost art of lacing cable (2018)
9 votes -
What we learned from building GovSlack
6 votes -
Rogers CEO says service back online for most Canadian customers, blames outage on 'network system failure'
17 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature
13 votes -
Largest fuel pipeline in the United States hit by ransomware attack
31 votes -
Beavers chewed through a cable and knocked out internet service to hundreds in a Canadian town
6 votes -
5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
12 votes -
Seeking to capitalize on a growing population that is increasingly less poor, American and Chinese tech giants clash in Africa
5 votes -
Hosting company OVH had a fire at their Strasbourg, France data center last night, completely destroying the "SBG2" location and damaging others
31 votes -
In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet
8 votes -
Finland's parliament approved a bill designed to protect its networks against cyber threats and espionage – may be used to exclude China's Huawei and ZTE
4 votes -
Sweden is banning equipment from Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from its new 5G network
7 votes -
Nokia wins Belgian 5G contracts amid US pressure to exclude the Chinese firm Huawei from supplying key telecoms equipment
6 votes -
AT&T shelving DSL may leave hundreds of thousands hanging by a phone line
6 votes -
Nokia has clinched a deal with Britain's biggest mobile operator BT to supply 5G radio equipment – coming months after UK said it would ban Huawei from 5G networks
7 votes -
At this point, 5G is a bad joke
16 votes -
The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
3 votes -
United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
6 votes -
Microsimulation of traffic control: Onramp
8 votes -
US unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows
21 votes -
At least twenty UK phone masts vandalised over false 5G coronavirus claims
13 votes -
US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade
15 votes -
Deep sea diving: The state of submarine cable technology
6 votes -
Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage
6 votes -
Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
4 votes -
McKee, Kentucky has a population of 1200 people and gigabit internet provided by the Peoples' Rural Telephone Cooperative
7 votes -
Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru
9 votes -
Free Internet access should be a basic human right: Study
19 votes