e767pmk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 21:26:23 +0100
RISKS has featured telecomms services stopped by hack attacks, software
faults, infrastructure failures, and so forth, but one UK network has been
disabled by officialdom, according to reports in a couple of newspapers.
Years ago, pagers were widely used to keep in contact with people on the
move, but their use has greatly declined with the popularity of cellphones,
and the UK currently only has two service providers, PageOne, owned by
Capita, and Vodafone. Vodafone wanted to transfer its 1,000 users to
PageOne, but the UK Competition and Markets Authority objected and wanted a
full investigation, which Vodafone didn't want to get involved with for such
a tiny market, so announced that it will simply close its service...