Customers of the UK's major broadband providers must receive payments when their connection stops working and is not fixed after two working days, under a voluntary scheme organised by communications regulator Ofcom.
"It's disappointing to see the spike in robocalls in March, after six consecutive months averaging less than 4 billion robocalls," YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a prepared statement about the report.
The attacks forced a reckoning with one of the most consequential design flaws in global digital infrastructure: the concentration of military and civilian data on the same physical servers, in facilities that could become military targets the moment a conflict begins.
The goal of the new USTelecom program is to show consumers, businesses, civic leaders, and policymakers why maintaining legacy copper for the small portion of end users is not an efficient approach. A key part of this is explaining why modern technology is better.
Salt Typhoon is behind one of the broadest hacking campaigns in recent years, targeting some of the world's largest phone and internet companies and stealing tens of millions of phone records about senior government officials. The hacking group, attributed to China, is part of a wider cluster of hackers with the collective aim of helping China prepare for an eventual war with Taiwan.
The security and resilience of 6G networks are critical aspects of that wider picture. 6G networks - both public and private - will come to play a vital role in the everyday life of people around the world, with much of our lives reliant on their efficient and secure operation.
