Posts by cg0

When Huawei leaves, the UK doesn't lead in 5G, says new report commissioned by... er... Huawei

I guess that depends on context, if you assume a standard residential connection of 80/20 from BT easily 5G beats it on speed and in the case of my Virgin connection easily beats it for latency.

Though of course you can't beat fibre backhaul especially when the network itself requires a fibre backhaul.

Like a Virgin, hacked for the very first time... UK broadband ISP spills 900,000 punters' records into wrong hands from insecure database

I've had marketing disabled since 2017, had the email

I opted out of marketing since 2017 so I thought I'd be safe but no, I still got the email from Virgin stating my data was part of the leak. Does this mean Virgin Media has been illegally storing my data as I thought under GDPR they couldn't store my data for marketing purposes if I explicitly didn't give them concent.