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Telecoms

June 2024

  • Carlos Slim pictured between the shadows of two other people in the foreground

    Carlos Slim: who is the Mexican billionaire who has invested £400m in BT?

  • Two young women or teenagers looking through vinyl records at a large records fair

    ‘We need to go places and touch things’: the people turning away from smartphones

  • KX100 phone box on the Isle of Harris

    Campaign launched to save ‘boringly ugly’ 1980s BT phone boxes

  • Allison Kirkby: head and shoulders photo showing her in front of a window with blurred view of greenery and sky behind; she is in her mid-50s, has collar-length blond hair, and wears a black jacket.

    Scandinavia ‘way ahead’ of UK in telecoms infrastructure, says BT boss

April 2024

  • Head-and-shoulders picture of Ian Russell

    Smartphones ban may cause more harm than good, says Molly Russell’s father

    Ian Russell says parental controls could weaken trust and ‘punish children for tech firms’ failures’
  • Piers Garrett with an old phone. London, 26/4/24

    The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones

    The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy
  • A boy aged four or five plays intently with a smartphone at a table at home

    Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a smartphone, data shows

    Campaigners express concern at new Ofcom figures, which also show that half of under-13s are on social media

March 2024

  • A customer outside a Huawei store in Beijing.

    Huawei shrugs off US sanctions with fastest growth in four years

    Revenue at Chinese telecom rose 10% as net profit more than doubles
  • screenshot "cannot connect to network"

    Consumer champions
    BT cut off my landline out of the blue and ignored my protests

    I was disconnected from wifi and my landline, which I depend on
  • An Openreach engineer working on overhead telephone lines.

    Failure to connect: how Openreach left a home without a vital lifeline

    The network company has been accused of poor communication and delays in supplying often crucial services

February 2024

  • A child with a smartphone

    Is a smartphone and social media ban the best way to protect young people from internet dangers?

  • a cell tower

    Large-scale cellular phone outage hits AT&T customers across US

  • Disconnect Me documentary

    Disconnect Me review – man attempts digital cold turkey in personal-challenge journey

  • Fraudsters use personal data to order a replacement mobile sim to steal their victim's money.

    Sim-swap fraud: How your bank account can be emptied by phone

  • Three apologises after network outages affect 10,000 customers across UK

  • First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Is there more that could be done to keep children safe online?

  • Houthis may sabotage western internet cables in Red Sea, Yemen telecoms firms warn

January 2024

  • App Store icon

    Apple to allow EU customers to download apps without using App Store

    Move comes as iPhone maker adapts to new Brussels laws, but could be replicated in UK in near future
  • A woman looking at a smartphone's glowing screen while in bed at night

    Science Weekly
    How to stop doomscrolling and reclaim your brain – podcast

    The author Catherine Price tells Madeleine Finlay how her own excessive phone use inspired her to investigate the science behind our relationships with our devices, and what we know about how to break the cycle. And Prof Barbara Sahakian of Cambridge University explains why many of us are drawn to looking at bad news on our phones, and what it’s doing to us
  • A woman talking on her mobile walks past a Vodafone store in London

    UK mobile and broadband customers face price hikes of 8% as inflation rises

    Vodafone is among the providers to pass on in-contract rises, as Which? says increases are ‘unacceptable’
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