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What Is the Cost of Rogers’ 15-Hour National Outage?
A leading Canadian telco failed emergency services, banks and retailers as well as phone users, but the cost of the backlash is likely to be far worse than just the revenues lost and compensation paid.
Mobileum Seeks More Takeovers
The California-headquartered suppliers of risk and security technology will also continue recruiting in India, which will be home to over two-thirds of their global headcount.
Commsrisk Top Ten for June 2022
Which articles grabbed the attention of your peers? These were the ten most popular Commsrisk posts during June.
Probe into BT Investor Reveals More about Government than Security
Patrick Drahi, billionaire owner of Altice, will know national security can be a euphemism for safeguarding government investments.
Commsrisk Top Ten for May 2022
Two articles about voluntary collaboration between risk professionals pierced through the gloom created by many more stories about the public sector corrupting telecoms and tech.
Disappointing Annual Results for Subex
CEO Vinod Kumar emphasizes the new products developed by his company but it remains too dependent on a stagnant RAFM market.
Will Bribery Sink Ericsson’s $6bn Vonage Acquisition?
Ericsson and Vonage have given themselves another 3 months to close their deal whilst US authorities are clearly taking a close look at further revelations about Ericsson wrongdoing.
EU Flirts with Ending Net Neutrality to Squeeze Money for European Telcos from US Big Tech
European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager echoed telco lobbyists who say over half of all internet traffic leads to just six US firms.
Commsrisk Top Ten for April 2022
It is not always easy to predict which articles will interest readers of Commsrisk.
Ericsson Faces More Corruption Investigations
Swedish prosecutors have announced they are investigating Ericsson's activities in Iraq, including suspected payments to Islamic State.
Commsrisk Top Ten for March 2022
Articles about war and corruption generated a lot of traffic for Commsrisk during the month of March, but there were some positive stories amidst the bad news.
Commsrisk Top Ten for February 2022
2022 has begun with a torrent of news about risks in the comms sector. These were the stories that grabbed the attention of readers during February.
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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