Analysis The caution couldn't be more stark. In a meeting with the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee yesterday, execs from BT and Vodafone warned UK lawmakers that a deadline of 2023 to remove Huawei-made equipment from their networks will result in multi-day mobile signal losses for some customers.

"To get to zero in a three-year period would literally mean blackouts for customers on 4G and 2G, as well as 5G, throughout the country," claimed Howard Watson, chief technology and information officer of the BT Group, and a 40-year veteran of the telecoms industry.

He said BT would need at at

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Psychologists from Northumbria University have published a research paper examining the connection between beliefs in 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and the willingness to act violently upon them. Surprise surprise, if you believe 5G is part of a Soros-backed depopulation plan, you might be tempted to take up a Super Soaker in arms.

A sample of 601 people were asked by Drs Jenny Patterson and Daniel Jolley about their level of conviction that COVID-19 was caused or exacerbated by 5G technology, whether violence against the telecoms sector was justified, and their willingness to take action themselves.

The survey also quizzed participants

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has confirmed it placed Huawei on a list of organisations with ties to the Chinese military that trade in the US. While this doesn't have an immediate impact on the firm's business, it opens the possibility for further punitive sanctions down the line.

Other businesses that appeared on the list [PDF] , which was first obtained by Republican Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, include the China Railway Construction Corporation, the China Telecommunications Corporation, and Hikvision, a publicly listed (but state-controlled) manufacturer of video surveillance technologies.

The DoD has been obligated to list suspected People's Liberation

Updated Just days after the ISP boasted about its network resilience in the face of spiking post-lockdown broadband usage, Virgin Media's customers across the UK capital are reporting being unable to get online as they attempt to work from home, do their schoolwork and watch Netflix.

The outage began around 8am UK time this morning and appears to be ongoing four hours later.

Completely misreading the room, the ISP posted a lighthearted tweet about playing games early this morning, which was received about as well as you'd imagine.

Virgin was last bashed by the outage stick – resulting in cascades