Tag: China Telecom

Kaspersky and China Mobile and Telecom are apparently threats to US security

Posted on March 29, 2022 by - News

America’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) claims that Kaspersky and China Mobile and China Telecom are threats to national security.

Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel saidUS law requires the commission to publish and maintain a list of communications equipment and services that pose an unacceptable risk to national security or the security and safety of US persons.

The FCC is not the first organisation to issue a warning about Kaspersky following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this month, Germany’s cybersecurity authority – the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) – issued a notice advising organisations that are using Kaspersky’s security products to find BSI-approved replacements.

Kaspersky’s CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, came under fire for a tweet in which he stopped short of criticising Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

Public wi-fi hotspots hit new high

Posted on March 19, 2015 by - News

1980-radio-shack-catalogThe number of public wi-fi hotspot deployments totalled 5.69 million and show no sign of slowing down at all.

Figures from ABI Research reveal that they will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent between this year and 2020, and by the end of that time there will be 13.3 million of them.

Liam Jye Su, a research associate at ABI, said: “Wi-fi deployments have been surprisingly robust, and more and more public locations have signed up on a free or ‘premium’ basis. This has discouraged the participation of third party operators in some locales because there is a need for the upgrade of service, coverage and legacy equipment, only beneficial for operators with significant economies of scale.”

Some mobile operators are re-considering their attitude to public hotspots because of the high cost of sales with a low return on investment on residential wi-fi. British Telecom and China Telecom, for example are entering partnerships with third parties.

Wi-fi hotspots also have the benefit for operators of offloading mobile data traffic, more especially in urban environments.