So we finally have a date: June 11, 2018.

That will be the day net neutrality finally dies in the United States following the publication of the full "Restoring Internet Freedom" FCC rules in the Federal Registry on Friday morning.

Despite having been formally voted on and approved back in December last year, the order that pulls back previous FCC rules and re-re-classifies internet access as a "Title I" information service, wasn’t published until February 22.

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Everyone had assumed that mean that net neutrality would be killed off on April 23, but no – it turns out the

A protest vote against corporate mismanagement at Africa's main internet body has sent the organization into freefall.

Following the poor handling of a sexual harassment scandal that eventually led to the resignation of its chair and vice-chair, members of Afrinic asked for a vote of no-confidence in the organization's entire board at its meeting this week in Dakar, Senegal.

But when the board refused to grant such a vote – having initially said it would – members took their revenge on Thursday by voting for "none of the above" in the elections of three board seats.

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Roundup What happened in networking this week? Well, for starters, Nokia acquired analytics company SpaceTime Insight, and will roll its capabilities into its Internet of Things business.

SpaceTime Insight provides IoT analytics and applications for the transport, energy, and utilities sectors. Its focus was predicting asset failure, and automatic optimisation.

The analytics firm's CEO, Rob Schilling, comes with the deal , joining Nokia's Software business group's IoT product unit.

CableLabs looking at blockchain. Wait, what?

The American cable network operators' club CableLabs says blockchain technology is ready for the cable industry somehow.

Principal security architect Steve Goeringer wrote that the

nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network, last week released its third quarter results. And as is now our practice at Vulture South, we’ve shoved its numbers into our nbn™ scoreboard – the table we use to compare assumptions from the nbn™’s corporate plan (PDF) with its latest results.

For FY 2018’s third quarter we can see the impact of the halt of the hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) rollout beginning to bite as just 336,330 new premises were activated in days between January 1st and March 31st 2018.

nbn™ expected to just over a million new activations in

Open source Wi-Fi firmware project OpenWrt says a hardware fault has taken down its forums, which appear not to be recoverable.

The forums disappeared with a simple, and distressing, message:

Developers have therefore started using the forums of the LEDE project, which was a fork of OpenWrt that lasted