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Simon Reeve’s unexpected adventure… delivering 5G broadband

Simon Reeve’s unexpected adventure… delivering 5G broadband Vodafone is launching 5G Broadband, which could benefit around 3.7million houses in the UK who can’t yet access full fibre Adventurer Simon Reeve has revealed he has taken extreme steps to get connected to the internet, including scaling scaffolding outside his home. The writer and presenter has travelled to some of the most remote places on earth, including the Arctic, the Congo Rainforest and the Kalahari Desert. But despite being...

Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class

Train travellers are poorly served by the UK’s mobile networks, says Ofcom. Tests on railway lines in England, Scotland and Wales revealed disappointing signal across 24 rail segments, with results falling short in 83 percent of cases. The communications regulator is now calling for a nationwide effort to raise the standard of mobile coverage passengers can expect.

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AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: "The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it." A couple of other people I put the question to seemed genuinely surprised I'd brought it up at all, the way you'd react if someone wandered into a board meeting and asked whether anyone wanted to expense a timeshare. So that's the current state of enterprise demand for Grok, as measured by the...

Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm

Mobile telcos are linking up with satellite operators to extend coverage beyond their cell towers reach, but actual usage of the technology may fall short of industry expectations. That's the view of Juniper Research, which forecasts monthly active direct-to-cell (D2C) users will grow from 17.4 million in 2026 to 133 million by 2031. Strong growth, but Juniper warns real-world adoption will likely disappoint: D2C is inherently niche, kicking in only when terrestrial signal fails, and it does...