Staff Reporter

Staff Reporter

  • Joined: 1 September 2025
  • Articles: 22596

Scammers fined $300 million for five million illegal robocalls to mobile numbers

An international network of companies that made more than five million illegal spoof robocalls to sell car warranties has been fined nearly $300 million by the Federal Communications Commission. The scammers sold car service contracts claiming they were warranties and were named Sumco Panama, Virtual Telecom, Davis Telecom, Geist Telecom, Fugle Telecom, Tech Direct, Mobi Telecom,

“Pivotal moment ” as Tekton Billing buys Zygo Technologies

Cloud-based billing solutions company Tekton has acquired customer management software provider Zygo Technologies.  Zygo has provided systems to organisations such as Vodafone and O2 in the UK, KPN (Holland) and e-plus and Deutsche Telecom (Germany). Over the past 15 years, it has been also active in Norway, Australia, Niger, Ukraine, USA and Canada covering a

Govt invests £160m in next-gen comms satellites

The Government is to invest £160 million in funding research and development of next-generation satellite communications.  The scheme aims to establish UK leadership in the next generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication technologies such as AI and machine learning needed to support the launch of hundreds of satellites. Whitehall believes LEO satellites will