Telecommunications Industry

Yahoo abandons fight, sells internet business to Verizon for $4.8B

After the sale Yahoo will be left with cash, investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, and some patents

A look at the new Verizon/Yahoo homepage

Why a Verizon and Yahoo merger would be like Microsoft snapping up CompuServe

Cultures collide, it happens. But this one is a bad idea.

Verizon unveils ‘virtual network services’

Vendor partners include Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks and will expand

Facebook brings high-speed laser communications into focus

The work at its Connectivity Lab could help bring high-speed Internet to remote areas

Telcos should only retain metadata to fight serious crime, EU judge says

The legal opinion threatens the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill, say digital rights campaigners

Attackers could steal millions through online phone verification systems

Many systems can be tricked to call premium-rate numbers set up by attackers

Why internet access is a basic human right

The UN’s declaration that internet access is a basic human right may sound silly, but its actually a big deal for net neutrality

Like smartphones, IoT communications going long distance

SK Telecom's now offering smartphone-like IoT data plans on its new nationwide wireless network in South Korea

Did Europe just fix emergency cellular call location?

Advanced Mobile Location, developed by BT with the help of HTC and EE, can determine a mobile phone user’s location 4,000 times better than the current system