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By then, it had also emerged that the Tempora program run by the British secret service was intercepting Internet and telephone data coming to and from Germany on a vast scale. Demonstrators hold banner during protest rally in support of former U.S …

Telecom tower company Viom Networks may join Telenor in setting up cellular telephone network in Myanmar. The joint venture between Srei and Tatas is in talks to set up towers and manage network on behalf of Telenor in the South East Asian nation.

It's no secret that telcos want to abandon the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and switch to all-IP networks. AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to lead this transition and also get rid of the "conventional public …

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF WIRETAPS — Anthropologist David Price recounts the history of government wiretaps in America, which began soon after the development of the telephone, and the changing public attitudes toward domestic spying by intelligences …

We were going to write a piece for today on the UK health service (NHS) 111 telephone service, which is increasingly building up into a first-class fiasco, and increasingly appears to be a failure that has procurement right at the heart of what has …

Phone giants Verizon and AT&T have let some of their traditional phone networks atrophy and have put tens of billions of dollars into the mobile and high-speed land-line Internet services that generate more revenue. The new communications …

And meanwhile, I had called up Gravel's office—I was still able to use a phone, not my home phone, but I went out to a pay phone—and said to the person there, "Is your boss interested in putting out the Pentagon"—I didn't say the "Pentagon Papers …