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Wi-Fi is about to get a whole lot quicker. That’s fantastic news: faster internet is always in demand, especially as we use more bandwidth-demanding applications, games, videos and music streaming on our laptops and phones.
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If 5G succeeds in replacing broadband connections at home, it will also replace them in company offices with limited access to super-fast fibre-optic broadband. Read on for more information about 5g and how it could affect your business with 5g fast speed wireless connections.
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We all demand faster internet access and want to connect more of our devices so they’re constantly online.
That’s why there’s a new Wi-Fi on the way. It’s called Wi-Fi 6, and it’s designed for how we live our lives in 2019.
We’ve created a brand new video to tell you all the benefits of Wi-Fi 6 and when you can upgrade your business.
Network neutrality – or ‘net’ for short, is the concept that internet service providers (ISPs) should not charge users to access platforms on the web differently based on user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, or method of communication.
Currently in the USA there are plans for ISPs to begin charging users to use different networks and online platforms, such as Netflix and WhatsApp, to increase the efficiency and line speeds at which they are using them.
Websites and companies will have to pay ISPs premiums to allow them to grant access to potential site visitors, giving an edge to bigger companies with more power and money.
The impartiality of this method could affect hundreds of thousands of businesses without the funds to pay ISPs. It will act as a form of censorship, dictated by companies already in good financial standing or with strong partnerships with other mega giants.
Any companies offering similar services, such as online video streamers – Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, many also have influence over several other popular sites depending on existing alliances and deals.
First slower speeds:
Packages you pay for because your service is slow:
Once you’ve paid for a subscription plan that doesn’t cover the website you’re on:
Proposals for net neutrality were repealed towards the end of 2017 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was officially ruled out on June 11 2018.
The issues that came into question were; who would regulate the broadband companies and ensure they weren’t abusing their powers as gatekeepers of the internet, and not favour their own content over a competitor’s?
A Republican-led FCC was stripped of its authority after Chairman, Ajit Pai abolished these old rules safeguarding net neutrality.
Currently, there is a wait for the appeal courts decision as to whether this move was legal and the fate of net neutrality.
For now, this issue is contained mainly to the USA, with little effect on external nations like the UK. For the States, it means higher prices for have ease of access to everyday sites like Facebook and even WhatsApp. It also means the content being distributed to different factions in society will be censored and the elite can easily dictate, what those less able to pay for freedom on the web, are exposed to.
If net neutrality laws eventually fall through and the new monetisation of the internet catches on, it is highly likely the concept with spread globally too.
No matter where you travel to these days, you’re destined to never be left without a means of contact, with the help of public wi-fi hotspots. Free access internet is now available at nearly every shopping centre, train station, airport, major tourist attraction and even on populated streets. The temptation, to save your monthly data allowance in exchange for simply handing over your email address and full name, seems harmless, right?
Unbeknownst to too many people, by connecting to these open networks you are letting hackers know you’re open for business. By accessing emails and online banking, you have inadvertently marked yourself as a target and made all your sensitive information, vulnerable.
This is when someone within range of the hotspot reach is essentially eavesdropping on your online activity. They are able to intercept the flow of information you’re sending between your device and the internet service.
The information that flows from device to wireless router should be in the form of a secret code, meaning sensitive information cannot be read. Most routers are unencrypted until set up by IT professionals who know how to encrypt it, so anyone who uses this router is protected by this private network. Public and unencrypted networks deliberately set up by hackers don’t enable this safety feature so that they can survey your activity from afar.
Cyber criminals will set up fake hotspots named similarly to reputable businesses. They will be branded and made to look legitimate, the same way in which, BT for example has their access pages displayed. These rogue hotspots then act as a direct portal for criminals to peer into your sensitive information and give them to platform to use it anyway they see fit. When doing so they can see which web pages you visited, any log in information you submitted and hack any accounts.
