Government and Regulator Asks High Court to Scrap GVG National RA Contract with Lesotho
Government Minister Samuel Rapapa says Global Voice Group (GVG) was awarded its contract illegally.
Children Used for Giant Fraud on Comms Services Subsidized by US Government
It is good that poor children can go online. It is bad if government subsidies allow a four year old to obtain 1,042 broadband accounts.
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.
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.
Government Culture Minister Admits to Sharing Netflix Password
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries laughed about Netflix’s ‘generosity’ as she spoke with a parliamentary committee.
Contingency Communication Following a Catastrophic Failure
Important lessons were learned about comms resiliency after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017.
Governments + Telecoms Data = Utopia?
Some previous loose talk about telcos giving their data to government sounds even worse following revelations about the ways data, and people, have been abused in real life.
When Does Social Media Snooping Go Too Far?
Telcos have good reason to use social media to gather data about users. However, even governments find it hard to assess the risks of placing too much reliance on that kind of data.
TelOne Zimbabwe – The Story of Africa
Government subsidies to prop up weak state-owned telcos are hurting the African telecoms market.