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Who owns your communications?

Most organisations agree communications are a vital asset – after all, no business can be productive if workers can’t talk to one another, writes Paul Clarke, the UK manager for

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Personal data sharing by social media giants provides operator opportunity, says Openet report

Recent data scandals, such as the Facebook controversy, mean 53% of consumers are less likely to share their personal data with digital services companies and consumers now see their mobile

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Wi-Fi to be critical enabler of 5G smart cities, sensors and safety use cases

Tiago Rodrigues is the general manager of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. Here he tells VanillaPlus the Wi-Fi is playing an increasingly important role in the development of 5G and will,

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Dept of Defense halts sales of Chinese-made phones on US army bases as technology block deepens

The Pentagon today widened the ongoing ban on government use of communications technology supplied by two of China’s leading comms equipment providers, Huawei and ZTE.

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Are network blind-spots derailing your digital transformation train?

When dealing with digital transformation initiatives, having visibility into IT infrastructure shouldn’t be a choice, it should be a requirement, writes Nadeem Zahid, the senior director of strategy and cloud

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The internet of broken things? 10 key facts about IoT – part 2

Ian Kilpatrick, the enteprise vice president of cyber security at Nuvias Group, continues his article detailing the 10 key facts about IoT that organisations need to take into account to

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Will CSPs start paying the bills?

As the PSD2 (Revised Payment Service Directive) takes effect in the EU, banks that previously had a monopoly on consumer account details will now be obligated to safely disclose that

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Signalling network presents next area of operator weakness as grey routes get locked down

Recent research from Mobilesquared reveals that operators’ failure to secure SS7 networks is costing them messaging revenue today and could see them lose share of the two factor authentication market

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Why the password should never be the last word in data security

The recent cyber-attack on Deloitte was yet another example of the lax security measures being deployed by some of the world’s biggest corporations. Deloitte isn’t alone; Equifax as well as

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An inconvenient truth about IoT security

The current political events in Barcelona provide us with a barely-needed reminder that we live in changing times, writes Rob Dyke, the field applications engineering manager at Trustonic. I was

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