Blockchains will reduce interconnect disputes, stop scams, ensure regulatory compliance of suppliers and exchange fraud intelligence.

A search of government-run telecoms facilities in Thailand led to the disconnection of 30 cables that ran across the border.

Twitter accounts were created solely to generate revenue for telcos from two-factor authentication SMS messages.

Agencies tasked with upholding the law have a hypocritical habit of wasting public money on trying to intimidate ordinary people.

Internet vigilante and YouTuber Jim Browning used his hacking skills to obtain compelling evidence about the bosses of an Indian scam call center who were then arrested but never prosecuted.

The comms platform cited repression in Iran as an example of why they are helping users to remain connected.

Customers of some of the world's biggest telcos were unable to access their Twitter accounts.

Imagine the worst that can happen with modern networked technology. Then imagine worse still. A lack of imagination has already led to an Orwellian turn down a very dark path.

About 300 GSM gateways and more than 100,000 SIM cards were seized in the operation.

Police jumped to the wrong conclusion after noticing a suspicious device in the back seat of a car they stopped at a road check.

Three of the ten most popular articles of the year concerned the inconsistent and inadequate enforcement of laws prohibiting illegal robocalls.

Another year reaches its end. The communications industry persevered through a hot war, a cold war, an information war, and a lot of unwanted calls. But did anything really change?