Some code related to "PFCP offloading" or "PFCP tunneling" has just appeared in mainline linux. Oddly enougn PFCP is not a tunneling protocol, and the code itself claims its not implementing PFCP. Trying to find out more about it: https://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2024/05/15/95#linux#3gpp#telecom - if anyone knows more, I am very curious.
« Sale blédard », « mon chien n’aime pas les arabes », « vous volez le pain des Français », les techniciens de maintenance de ligne internet, tout opérateur confondu, racontent les interventions difficiles et les agressions racistes.
#FCC reinstates #NetNeutrality policy after #Trump era cancellation. By following the law Congress wrote for modern internet-access service, FCC is reestablishing its federal oversight of the #telecommunications service that connects everyone.
#Broadband providers will need to stop playing favorites or #throttling links to websites they has no commercial deals with. Measure now likely to be challenged in court by corporate #telecom & cable communications giants.
Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
Eutelsat OneWeb, which is in prime position to get satellite spectrum without an auction, is owned by Bharti Enterprises, UK government, SoftBank, among others.
You can say the #First#Amendment only applies to the #government, not #private entities—which is undeniably true—and therefore #social#media sites have no obligation to provide a platform for speech the owners of the site don’t like. This is a reasonable and defensible position.
Or you can say social media sites are the new #town#squares, and therefore the owners have a moral if not legal obligation to allow anyone to say practically anything using their platforms. You can even point out that the government charters corporations, and is responsible for a lot of #telecom#infrastructure, so by allowing censorship in that particular environment, the government is at least complicit in interfering with free speech rights. This is also a reasonable and defensible position.
Maybe you can even try to find some kind of well-articulated middle ground between these positions, although I have to say I don’t remember ever seeing anyone do so. I think most people do hold opinions somewhere between the two, but they don’t tend to spell it out.
What they do instead is argue either side as it’s convenient, which is irritating as hell. And yes, this is a rare bit of “both sides” on my part. I see a whole lot of leftish folks, who are generally not big fans of corporate power, deploying the first position against right-wing types—while complaining about the arbitrary and often clearly biased way #Facebook et al. censor left-wing statements.
The complaints are justified. Hypocrisy is not.
Just pick a position, be honest with yourself about what that position is, and stick to it. No matter where you fall on this spectrum, you have to be aware that the mechanisms of speech, and by extension the press, have changed dramatically over the last thirty years and will continue to do so. Knowing where you stand is important.
Here's a podcast on New Books Network where I talk about (surprise surprise) my new book, 'Visions of a Digital Nation', and why Margaret Thatcher's 1984 #privatisation of British Telecom was a pivotal moment for both #neoliberalism and #digitalisation.
Communications Outage (forwarded from FEMA Region 5) from earlier today, on the ATT telecom outage (which appears to now be restored):
"According to open source reporting AT&T is experiencing network outages across the United States. Customers are not able to send or receive phone calls (including texts) on AT&T network devices and the outage are also affecting FirstNet (AT&T) which is a network for first responders. All affected areas are not yet known at this time...."
My first sole-authored book just came out! Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications is about the privatisation and digitalisation of the UK's telecom infrastructure, and why that was such a pivotal moment for the rise of neoliberalism.
#Malaysian#Telecom Provider, Aminia Hit by Pro-#Israeli#Cyberattack, Website Inaccessible....The group claims to have compromised Aminia’s billing and Managed WiFi services portals, hinting at a potential data breach. The attack follows the group’s threat to target Malaysian internet infrastructure.
Les opérateurs alternatifs s’insurgent contre les hausses de tarifs d’Orange
👉 Une quarantaine d’opérateurs télécoms a adressé une lettre courroucée au gendarme du secteur. L’autorisation donnée à Orange d’augmenter ses tarifs de l’accès à son réseau cette année est jugée injustifiée et dangereuse.
📢 Happy New Year, happy my birthday, and happy time for another #TekSavvyquarterly transparency report.
TekSavvy is the only ISP in #Canada (AFAIK) to publish a quarterly Transparency Report documenting the requests we got from law enforcement agencies, how we handled them, and what we disclosed to them.
Today, we’re reporting on Q2 of 2023, and I’m summarizing that report here. 🧵👇🏼
“The idea that Canadians should bear the burden of searching out cheaper prices doesn't sit well with one competition expert.
"That should not be the consumer's responsibility," said Keldon Bester, executive director of the research and advocacy group Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, who spoke out against Rogers's recent merger with Shaw Communications.”
This christmas tree made from a telephone cable was an exhibit at the “Young People's Exhibition”, Imperial Institute, London, 29 December 1936
The cable dates from before PVC insulation was widespread. Each wire was individually insulated with paper, and the whole cable was covered in a lead sheath.
Arranged in “pairs” there are 6024 wires in total.
The Egyptian government must act immediately to extend telecommunications access in Gaza through Egypt’s mobile networks and ISPs.
...We call on Egyptian authorities to immediately allow telecom operators to expand coverage into the #Gaza Strip. Many Egyptian operators have already announced that they are capable and equipped, technically and logistically, through the existing tower infrastructure on the Egyptian side.