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Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic

Kazakh government first wanted to intercept all HTTPS traffic way back in 2016, but they backed off after several lawsuits.
Does net neutrality still matter in our post-web world?

What we think the public Internet is has already been replaced with a vision of the digital marketplace that’s more reflective of our society. So why are we trying to resuscitate a framework ...
US chipmaker Qualcomm fined €242 million by Europe

Qualcomm sold products below cost to Huawei and ZTE, with the aim of forcing its competitor Icera out of the market, the EC has ruled.

Ericsson's SEK1.8 billion net profit for Q2 is driven by 5G uptick

The company has supplied equipment to 15 live 5G networks as of the end of the second quarter.
Chorus has over 50% of NZ broadband on fibre

Peak data usage on its network now above 2Tbps, a 77% increase on June 2017 numbers.
Clean Energy Regulator, WA Mines Department, and Vet Surgeons Board trying to access metadata: Comms Alliance

The Communications Alliance has listed 27 other agencies that have tried to access metadata following the introduction of Australia's data retention regime. ...

New Zealand ComCom lays charges against Vocus subsidiaries

Telecommunications providers face charges for billing customers after contracts were terminated.
AT&T, IBM expand partnership with multi-year deal

As part of the deal, IBM will serve as the primary cloud provider for AT&T Business and will help manage AT&T's hybrid cloud infrastructure.
NBN HFC field test hits 994Mbps download speeds

DOCSIS 3.1 test on suburban line in Victoria approaching 1Gbps mark.

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