Slashdot Items Tagged "communications"

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Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:45PM Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System
Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:40PM Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System
Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:02PM Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack
Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:14PM Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions
Monday April 15, 2024 @10:51AM Telecom Fights Price Caps as US Spends Billions on Internet Access
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:33AM Consumers Will Finally See FCC-Mandated 'Nutrition Labels' For Most Broadband Plans
Friday April 05, 2024 @08:49PM NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months
Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:30PM Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks
Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:04PM Cable Lobby Vows 'Years of Litigation' To Avoid Bans on Blocking and Throttling
Monday March 25, 2024 @12:49PM Landlines Are Dying Out
Saturday March 23, 2024 @05:10PM Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at the Moon's Far Side, But Resistance May Be Futile
Friday March 22, 2024 @03:10PM Cable ISP Fined $10,000 For Lying To FCC About Where It Offers Broadband
Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:03PM Google is Bringing Satellite Messaging To Android 15
Friday March 15, 2024 @11:03AM Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose 'All In' Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules
Friday March 15, 2024 @09:35AM FCC Scraps Old Speed Benchmark, Says Broadband Should Be at Least 100Mbps
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @08:57PM SpaceX Gets E-Band Radio Waves To Boost Starlink Broadband
Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:50PM To Replace HexChat, Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App Called 'Jargonaut'
Monday March 04, 2024 @01:29PM America's Last Morse-Code Station
Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:25AM 6G Principles Endorsed By US and International Partners
Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:27PM AT&T Restores Service After Massive, Nationwide Outage
Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:59AM FCC Commissioner Wants To Investigate Apple Over Beeper Mini Shutdown
Monday February 12, 2024 @06:07PM The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks
Friday February 09, 2024 @04:01PM Canada Moves To Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:35PM Thieves Steal 200ft Tower From Alabama Radio Station
Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:33PM FCC Votes To Outlaw Scam Robocalls That Use AI-Generated Voices
Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:46AM Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day
Monday January 29, 2024 @02:04PM T-Mobile Says It May Slow Home Internet Speeds of Some Users in Times of 'Congestion'
Monday January 22, 2024 @07:10PM Google and AT&T Invest In AST SpaceMobile For Satellite-To-Smartphone Service
Friday January 19, 2024 @06:29AM Viasat Tries To Stop Citizen Effort To Revive FCC Funding for Starlink
Monday January 15, 2024 @03:47PM Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement
Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:45PM SpaceX Sends First Text Messages Using Starlink Satellites
Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:32AM SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:43PM Starlink Launches First 'Cellphone Towers In Space' For Use with LTE Phones
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:35AM Wickr Is Dead
Saturday December 30, 2023 @12:54AM That Chinese Spy Balloon Used an American ISP to Communicate, Say US Officials
Friday December 29, 2023 @03:28PM Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry's New Priority: Stability
Saturday December 23, 2023 @07:25PM Beeper's iMessage Connection Software Open Sourced. What Happens Next?
Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:33AM Ford Decides It Won't Kill AM Radio After All
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:22AM UK Officials Caught Napping Ahead of 2G and 3G Doomsday
Friday December 15, 2023 @08:23PM Biggest Solar Flare In Years Temporarily Disrupts Radio Signals On Earth
Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:56PM NASA's Voyager 1 Probe In Interstellar Space Can't Phone Home
Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:11PM FCC Floats Ban on Cable TV 'Junk Fees' That Make It Hard To Ditch Contracts
Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:19PM Amazon's Internet Satellites Will Use Space Lasers To Transmit Data
Friday December 08, 2023 @08:01AM The Race To 5G is Over - Now It's Time To Pay the Bill
Friday December 08, 2023 @07:08AM UK Class-Action Targets Mobile Phone Operators With $4.15 Billion Damages Claim
Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:20AM Cable Lobby To FCC: Please Don't Look Too Closely at the Prices We Charge
Monday November 27, 2023 @02:56PM Charter To Reduce Mobile Video Streaming Resolution for Some Customers
Monday November 20, 2023 @08:54PM Optus CEO Resigns After Nationwide Outage Left Millions Without Mobile and Internet Services
Friday November 17, 2023 @07:27PM US Space Force Monitors Satellites in the 'Robotic Battlefield' of Space
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:05PM FCC Can Now Punish Telecom Providers For Charging Customers More For Less
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @01:16AM Airbus Introduces 'Detumbler' Device To Address Satellite Tumbling In Low Earth Orbit
Monday November 13, 2023 @02:09PM US Pledges Work Toward More Airwaves for Wireless Providers Facing Surging 5G Demand
Friday November 10, 2023 @09:22AM Qualcomm-Iridium Deal To Bring Satellite Connectivity To Phones Collapses
Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:42PM Internet Providers Say the FCC Should Not Investigate Broadband Prices
Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:35PM WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:28PM After Big Drop in ISP Competition, Canada Mandates Fiber-Network Sharing
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:59PM NASA's First Two-Way End-to-End Laser Communications System
Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:17PM FCC Greenlights Superfast Wi-Fi Tethering for AR and VR Headsets
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:36PM CBC Stops Broadcasting Official Time Signal
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:11PM New Starlink Webpage Highlights Upcoming 'Direct To Cell' Service
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:57AM FTC Lays Out New Rule That Could End Hidden Fees
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:31PM Finnish President Says Undersea Gas and Telecom Cables Damaged By 'External Activity'
Monday October 09, 2023 @10:42AM Net Neutrality's Court Fate Depends on Whether Broadband is 'Telecommunications'
Friday October 06, 2023 @03:20PM Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System
Friday October 06, 2023 @07:23AM Biden Administration Backs Strong Rules To Close Digital Divide
Wednesday October 04, 2023 @06:59PM A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky
Monday October 02, 2023 @08:24PM An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday
Monday October 02, 2023 @08:00PM Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:33PM Walmart To Roll Out New Prepaid Phone Service From Boost Founder
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:28PM FCC To Reintroduce Rules Protecting Net Neutrality
Monday September 25, 2023 @07:03PM US Exploring Potential Space Force Hotline With China
Friday September 22, 2023 @03:37PM FCC Closing Loophole That Gave Robocallers Easy Access To US Phone Numbers
Monday September 11, 2023 @03:13PM WhatsApp is Working on Cross-Platform Messaging
Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:13AM Telecom Companies in India Want Tech Firms To Pay For Network Usage
Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:43AM NASA Officials Sound Alarm Over Future of the Deep Space Network
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:47PM FCC Says 'Too Bad' To ISPs Complaining That Listing Every Fee is Too Hard
Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:07PM NASA To Demonstrate Laser Communications From Space Station
Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:16AM T-Mobile To Cut About 7% of Staff
Monday August 21, 2023 @01:36PM South Korea's Biggest Telco Says 5G Has Failed To Deliver On Its Promise
Monday August 21, 2023 @10:42AM US Announces More New Funding for Rural Broadband Infrastructure
Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:19AM Australia's ISPs Will Stop Offering Free Email Addresses, to the Disgust of Older Customers
Wednesday August 16, 2023 @07:31PM US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites
Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:57PM China Launches First Geosynchronous Orbit Radar Satellite
Monday August 07, 2023 @01:24PM FCC Prepares $75 Monthly Broadband Subsidies For 'High-Cost' Areas
Friday August 04, 2023 @09:19PM Capella's Earth-Imaging Satellites Are Deorbiting Faster Than Expected
Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:36PM FCC Fines Robocaller a Record $300 Million After Blocking Billions of Their Scam Calls
Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:55PM Arrival of eSIM is Altering How Consumers Interact With Operators
Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:55PM FCC Chair: Speed Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up Isn't Good Enough Anymore
Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:24AM Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection
Friday July 21, 2023 @05:50PM A Promising Internet Satellite Is Rendered Useless By Power Supply Issues
Thursday July 20, 2023 @04:36PM Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging
Monday July 03, 2023 @01:03AM The Rise and Fall of Microsoft's Skype
Friday June 30, 2023 @07:31AM Huawei Says Ready To Ship Entire 5.5G Networks - Whatever They Are - in 2024
Monday June 26, 2023 @01:20PM White House Announces $40 Billion in Broadband Funding
Friday June 23, 2023 @10:17PM Eight Teams of Hackers Will Compete To Breach U.S. Satellite In Space
Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:20PM An AT&T-Backed Cellular Satellite Company Sent a 4G LTE Signal From Space
Monday June 19, 2023 @10:37AM Indonesia, SpaceX Launch Satellite To Boost Internet Connectivity
Friday June 16, 2023 @08:21PM Dish Says It Met Its FCC Deadline To Cover 70 Percent of the US Population
Friday June 16, 2023 @03:00PM FCC Chair To Investigate Exactly How Much Everyone Hates Data Caps
Friday June 16, 2023 @12:11PM $930 Million in Grants Announced in Biden's Effort To Expand Internet Access
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:19PM Comcast Complains To FCC That Listing All of Its Monthly Fees is Too Hard
Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:42AM Satellite Beams Solar Power Down To Earth, In First-of-a-Kind Demonstration
Friday June 02, 2023 @08:56AM Amazon Is in Talks To Offer Free Mobile Service To US Prime Members
Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:09PM Japan To Launch Satellite Made of Wood In 2024
Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:24PM Pentagon Awards SpaceX With Ukraine Contract For Starlink Satellite Internet
Friday May 26, 2023 @09:45PM 50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones
Friday May 26, 2023 @08:32AM Portugal Effectively Bans Chinese Companies From 5G Network
Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:45PM SkyFi Lets You Order Up Fresh Satellite Imagery In Real Time With a Click
Monday May 22, 2023 @01:04PM Biden Names FCC Picks, Pushes for Democratic Majority at Deadlocked Agency
Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:09PM FCC Rejects Dish 5G Plan That Could Have Made Starlink Broadband 'Unusable'
Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:24PM Verizon's New Plans Make Sense To Nobody Except Verizon
Wednesday May 17, 2023 @02:54PM Telcos Draw Up Proposal To Charge Big Tech for EU 5G Rollout
Monday May 15, 2023 @02:29PM Nigeria Mobile Operators To Bar Text Service for Banks Over $259 Million Debt
Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:04PM As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays?
Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:17PM Europe's Major Satellite Players Line Up To Build Starlink Competitor
Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:48PM Starlink Nixes Plan To Impose 1TB Data Cap and Per-Gigabyte Overage Fees
Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:29PM SpaceX, Rogers Strike Deal for Satellite Phone Service in Canada
Wednesday April 26, 2023 @07:48AM 5G Not Enough? Telecom Companies Look to 5.5G
Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:03PM AT&T Helps Complete the First 'Space-Based Voice Call' Using a Standard Smartphone
Friday April 21, 2023 @05:48PM China Building Cyberweapons To Hijack Enemy Satellites, Says US Leak
Friday April 21, 2023 @11:15AM US Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications
Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:44PM Defunct NASA Satellite Returns To Earth After 21 Years
Friday April 14, 2023 @06:05PM Virginia Norwood, 'Mother' of Satellite Imaging Systems, Dies At 96
Monday April 10, 2023 @09:36PM NASA Reveals What Made an Entire Starlink Satellite Fleet Go Down
Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:31AM How Much Data Did the Chinese Spy Balloon Collect?
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:14PM Lockheed Martin Is Building a Moon-To-Earth Satellite Communications Network
Saturday March 25, 2023 @02:11PM The New US-China Proxy War Over Undersea Internet Cables
Friday March 24, 2023 @06:39PM Starlink Rival OneWeb Poised for Global Coverage After Weekend Launch
Friday March 24, 2023 @12:23PM Biden Broadband Plan Runs Headlong Into 'Buy American' Mandate
Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:52PM 'Click-to-Cancel' Rule Would Penalize Companies That Make You Cancel By Phone
Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:16PM FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station In NYC $2 Million
Friday March 17, 2023 @10:34AM FCC Proposes Satellite-to-Phone Rules To Eliminate 'No Signal' Once and For All
Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:33AM Amazon Reveals Its Project Kuiper Satellite Internet Dishes, Targets 2024 Launch
Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:40AM SpaceX Is Getting Ready To Test Its Starlink Satellite-To-Cellphone Service
Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:08PM Qualcomm Wants To Replace eSIMs With iSIMs, Has the First Certified SoC
Monday February 27, 2023 @07:55PM SpaceX Unveils 'V2 Mini' Starlink Satellites With Quadruple the Capacity
Monday February 27, 2023 @08:15AM Mobile Giants Announce United Interface to Lure Cloud Developers
Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:34AM Samsung Readying Its Own Smartphone-to-Satellite Communication Platform
Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:30AM EU Eyes Big Tech as it Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs
Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:41PM Biden FCC Nominee Slams Critics, Says ISPs Shouldn't Get To Choose Regulators
Friday February 10, 2023 @01:16PM China Pulls Back From Global Subsea Cable Project as US Tensions Mount
Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:17PM FCC Approves Amazon's Satellite Broadband Plan Over SpaceX's Objections
Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:46PM China's Balloon Was Capable of Spying on Communications, US Says
Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:11AM Comcast Gave False Map Data To FCC
Friday February 03, 2023 @07:45AM ISP Admits Lying To FCC About Size of Network To Block Funding To Rivals
Monday January 30, 2023 @01:22PM EU Weighs Proposal To Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades
Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:45AM FCC Nomination Stalled for One Year, Preventing Restoration of US Net Neutrality
Friday January 20, 2023 @02:05PM Telecom Giants Head To Court To Kill NY State's Demand They Give Poor People $15 Broadband
Monday January 16, 2023 @04:05PM Russian Strikes Sap Ukraine Mobile Network of Vital Power
Monday January 09, 2023 @05:47PM US Sets 2024 Deadline For 5G Signal Safeguards On Aircraft
Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:37PM Qualcomm's Going Toe-To-Toe With Apple's Satellite Messaging Feature
Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:14PM Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:27AM Brand Communications Agency
Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:40PM Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:53PM Russian Arms Manufacturer Developing Tech To Hunt Starlink Dishes
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:37PM Apple Satellite Plans May Extend Beyond Emergencies, Suggests New Patent
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:45AM Microsoft Targets Internet Expansion in Africa, Longer-Term Cloud Adoption
Monday December 12, 2022 @12:50PM Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade
Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:10AM After US Sanctions, Huawei Seeks New Revenue By Licensing Its 5G Patents to Rival
Friday December 09, 2022 @01:16PM FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers
Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:54PM NASA'S ICON Space Weather Satellite Has Suddenly Gone Silent
Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:05AM Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline For More Than a Month
Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:10PM Upgrades In Free Over-the-Air TV Are Making It Better
Monday December 05, 2022 @09:59PM SpaceX Unveils 'Starshield,' a Military Variation of Starlink Satellites
Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:49PM Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio
Friday December 02, 2022 @08:30PM Astronomers Say a New, Huge Satellite Is As Bright As the Brightest Stars
Friday December 02, 2022 @05:43PM iPhone 14 Satellite Feature Saves Stranded Man In Alaska
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:57PM More Than 1 Billion People Expected To Be Using 5G By Year's End
Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:14PM 'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe'
Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:19AM The US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecommunications Equipment Sales Over Chinese Spying Fears
Friday November 18, 2022 @08:03PM Trump Posted Classified Satellite Imagery On Twitter As President
Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:13PM LF Europe's Project Sylva Wants To Create an Open Source Telco Cloud Stack
Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:40AM Apple Launches Emergency SOS via Satellite in US and Canada
Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:02PM Vonage Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC Allegations of Trapping Consumers in Subscriptions
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:45PM T-Mobile Will Start Charging a $35 Fee on All New Activations and Upgrades
Friday October 28, 2022 @05:42PM Amazon May Turn To Its SpaceX Rival For Satellite Launches
Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:49PM FAA Warns of Aviation Safety Risks Without US Mandate On 5G Limits
Friday October 21, 2022 @06:32PM Pressuring Apple to Fix Texting, Google's Android Will Force iPhone Users to Read Descriptions of Reaction Emojis
Friday October 21, 2022 @05:02PM French Police Probe Multiple Cuts of Major Internet Cables
Friday October 21, 2022 @02:43PM Damaged Cable Leaves Shetland Cut Off From Mainland
Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:45PM Starry Internet Cuts 500 Jobs, Half Its Workforce, and Cancels Big Expansion
Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:11PM Starlink Unveils Airplane Service
Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:40PM Dallas Air Traffic Rerouted As FAA Probes Faulty GPS Signals
Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:49PM Microsoft Office 365 Vulnerability Could Allow Sidestepping of Email Encryption
Friday October 14, 2022 @06:46PM US Opts To Not Rebuild Renowned Puerto Rico Telescope
Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:22PM Amazon's Set To Launch Its Prototype Internet Satellites Early Next Year
Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:18AM FCC Poised To Ban All US Sales of New Huawei and ZTE Equipment
Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:54AM Starlink Makes Maiden Asia Foray With Japan Launch
Monday October 10, 2022 @06:21PM SpaceX Competitor Lynk Testing 5G Cellphone Service From Space
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:35PM European Observatory NOEMA Reaches Full Capacity With Twelve Antennas
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:56PM The Internet Archive Is Building a Digital Library of Amateur Radio Broadcasts
Friday September 30, 2022 @05:25PM NYPD Considers Using Encryption To Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts
Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:13PM Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts
Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:37AM UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns
Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:26AM Wall Street Hit With $2 Billion of Fines in WhatsApp Probe
Monday September 26, 2022 @02:41PM FCC Takes Long-Delayed Step Against Spam Text Surge
Friday September 23, 2022 @04:39PM Elon Musk Activates Starlink For Iranian Citizens
Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:16PM Advocacy Group Asks FCC To Probe Efficacy of Wireless Industry's Voluntary Phone Unlocking Commitments
Friday September 16, 2022 @06:36PM FCC Approves Space-Based Texting Service From Lynk
Friday September 16, 2022 @10:54AM Elon Musk Enters In-Flight Wi-Fi Market With Small Satellites