Network Stories for 2021

Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
Big Tech Firms Should Pay ISPs To Upgrade Networks, Telcos In Europe Claim 87
Tor Project Sees Decline in Server Numbers, Will Offer Rewards for New Bridge Operators 33
A Look Under the Hood of the Most Successful Streaming Service on the Planet 21
The Startup That Wants To Disrupt Big Internet Providers 55
With Coercion and Black Boxes, Russia Installs a Digital Iron Curtain 52
Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks To Deploy During Civil Unrest 59
South Korea Broadband Firm Sues Netflix After Traffic Surge from 'Squid Game' 70
Facebook Will Open Its Fiber Networks To Expand Broadband Access In Rural Virginia 8
Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate is About To Expire, and It Might Break Your Devices 52
A Secretive Pentagon Program That Started on Trump's Last Day in Office Just Ended. The Mystery Has Not. 85
Google and Facebook's New Cable To Link Japan and Southeast Asia 13
Routers and Modems Running Arcadyan Firmware Are Under Attack 24
London Underground To Gain Full Mobile Phone Coverage By 2024 42
Quic Gives the Internet's Data Transmission Foundation a Needed Speedup 80
Verizon Forces Users Onto Pricier Plans To Get $50-Per-Month Government Subsidy 31
Frontier Lied About Internet Speed, FTC Says In Post-Net Neutrality Case 50
NBN Replaces 10,000 Modems After Lightning 'Fries' Devices Across Blue Mountains 72
SpaceX Partners With Google Cloud On Starlink, Placing Ground Stations At Data Centers 19
Starlink Satellite Internet Service Gets 500K Preorders 93
Frontier Exits Bankruptcy, Claims It Will Double Fiber-To-the-Home Footprint 30
Belgium's Government Network Goes Down After Massive DDoS Attack 26
US Government Probes VPN Hack Within Federal Agencies, Races To Find Clues 12
Network Security Company Proofprint Goes Private In $12.3 Billion Deal 7
Dish To Use AWS For 5G Network 20
One Step Closer To Getting 10 Gigabit At Home 71
Striking Charter Workers Build ISP Where 'Profits Are Returned To Users' 79
Cosmic Rays Causing 30,000 Network Malfunctions in Japan Each Year 71
Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling As Key Platforms Are Taxed and Failing 111
ISP Imposes Data Cap, Explains It To Users With Condescending Pizza Analogy 102
Verizon Will Shut Down Its 3G Network In 2022 64
'Rectenna' Harvests Electromagnetic Energy From 5G Signals 127
Colorado Aims To Use Pandemic To Expand Funding For Broadband Access 33
Biden Pushes EV Chargers As Six Utilities Plan a Unified Network 294
Google's New Subsea Cable Between the US and Europe is Now Online 56
Internet Disrupted in Myanmar Amid Apparent Military Uprising 47
Cable ISP Warns 'Excessive' Uploaders, Says Network Can't Handle Heavy Usage 101
'Anti-Facebook' MeWe Social Network Adds 2.5 Million New Members In One Week 71
EU Must 'Move At Speed' On Space Broadband Network 76
German Investigators Shut Down Biggest Illegal Marketplace On the Darknet 29
D-Link Made a USB Adapter that Adds Wi-Fi 6 To Your Laptop 38
Frontier Agrees To Fiber-Network Expansion In Plan To Exit Bankruptcy 22
Verizon Indefinitely Delays 3G Network Shutdown 61

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