Optus and Telstra delay 3G network shutdown until October
Lost Connection review – dance quartet in thrall to their smartphones
July 2024
How do young people ever get any work done? They’re always so distracted
Adrian Chiles
Decades ago, I got a job as a scaffolder – and I was a total liability. I’d have been even more useless if mobile phones had been around, writes Adrian Chiles
Liberating and a huge pain: my week with a Nokia ‘dumbphone’
Using the reissued 3210 model left our reporter very frustrated – but less mobile-obsessed and in awe of its battery life
‘Ugly’ phone boxes that blight UK streets should be removed, says thinktank
Exclusive: Create Streets calls for legislation to make it easier to remove kiosks that attract litter and graffiti
June 2024
Carlos Slim: who is the Mexican billionaire who has invested £400m in BT?
‘We need to go places and touch things’: the people turning away from smartphones
Campaign launched to save ‘boringly ugly’ 1980s BT phone boxes
Scandinavia ‘way ahead’ of UK in telecoms infrastructure, says BT boss
April 2024
Smartphones ban may cause more harm than good, says Molly Russell’s father
Ian Russell says parental controls could weaken trust and ‘punish children for tech firms’ failures’
The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones
The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy
Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a smartphone, data shows
Campaigners express concern at new Ofcom figures, which also show that half of under-13s are on social media
March 2024
Huawei shrugs off US sanctions with fastest growth in four years
Revenue at Chinese telecom rose 10% as net profit more than doubles
Consumer champions
BT cut off my landline out of the blue and ignored my protests
I was disconnected from wifi and my landline, which I depend on
Failure to connect: how Openreach left a home without a vital lifeline
The network company has been accused of poor communication and delays in supplying often crucial services
February 2024
Is a smartphone and social media ban the best way to protect young people from internet dangers?
Letters: Stuart Harrington doubts that such a ban will work, while Oscar Acton spells out the benefits of smartphone access for school students
Large-scale cellular phone outage hits AT&T customers across US
More than 70,000 affected as users of AT&T report disruptions including to emergency service calls
Disconnect Me review – man attempts digital cold turkey in personal-challenge journey
Sim-swap fraud: How your bank account can be emptied by phone
Three apologises after network outages affect 10,000 customers across UK
