EE said it was deploying generators where it could and was "working with power companies to restore power" as soon as possible. Vodafone and O2 have been approached for comment. BT says "very few people" would have no mobile reception and Ofcom did not expect providers to "predict and provide solutions for all exceptional circumstances".
When asked about those who were unable to make even calls, a BT spokesperson said the damage caused by Storm Arwen had been "unprecedented and no phone or broadband provider could come up with a solution that would allow backup services to work for more than several days". However, Ofcom says it recognises there may be exceptional circumstances where a normal level of service is not possible but "even in those circumstances, our rules are clear that there should be protections in place for people to call the emergency services".
Customers should be provided with "solutions that are appropriate for their needs", including greater protection for those living in an area "subject to regular power outages longer than an hour". A spokesperson said the regulator was "in touch with BT to understand how they are meeting these obligations to these customers".
However, the obligation to provide connectivity does not extend to a right to make any type of calls, such as to a power company or friend. There is an irony, spotted by Mr Bridgett, that the green agenda is not taking into account the realities of weather associated with climate change.
Electric cars, air source heat pumps and the new digital landlines are all "useless in circumstances like this", he says. He wants resilience built into utility infrastructure by the organisations responsible for it. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria bbc. Internet revamp for the humble landline.
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Image source, PA Media. Engineers were fixing telephone lines near Barnard Castle as Storm Barra followed hot on the heels of Arwen. Image source, Ingrid Hardy. In some parts of Northumberland loose power cables wrapped round branches to be kept out of the way have become a common sight.
Some, like Mr Round, say they were not given a choice. Image source, Clare Pennington. The nature of the cyber attack is unknown, but it's believed to have been a ransomware attack. Western Australia Parliament's mail server was accessed after a Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability was compromised. This incident was part of a global cyberattack frenzy targeting the zero-day exploit before Microsoft responded with a patch release. WA Parliament says no data was lost and its network remained protected during the cyber attack that occurred in the middle of the state election.
The attack itself left Parliament without the use of its email platform for 19 hours as it worked on a fix. The media report on cyber attacks almost every week. Only there had been no such demands. UnitingCare Queensland, an organisation providing aged care, disability supports, health care and crisis response services throughout the state, fell victim to an attack on April 25, The REvil Sodinokibi ransomware gang has been active for quite a while, dwarfing any other similar ransomware operations.
Swinburne University of Technology in early April confirmed personal information on staff, students and external parties had inadvertently made its way into the wild.
The information caught up in the incident included names, email addresses and phone numbers of around 5, Swinburne staff and Swinburne students. This data, Swinburne said, was event registration information from multiple events from onwards. The event registration webpage is no longer available. In apologising for the incident, Swinburne said it took immediate action to investigate and respond, including removing the information and conducting an audit across other similar sites.
Queensland's largest regional water supplier, Sunwater, was targeted by hackers in one of the longest running data breaches of that actually went undetected for nine months.
While this incident occurred between August and May , it only came to light last month. A Sunwater spokesperson told the ABC no financial or customer data had been compromised and immediate steps had been taken to improve security once the unauthorised access to an online content management system was detected. Sunwater admitted the cyber breach after the tabling of a Queensland's Audit Office report into the state's water authorities, which mentioned the incident but did not say which authority was targeted.
United States-based food processing company JBS USA fell victim to a cyber attack at the end of May, with the aftermath of one of the biggest data breaches of affecting its North American and Australian systems. The company supplies approximately one-fifth of meat globally.
In a statement, JBS indicated that while it was able to get most of its systems running without REvil's help, it chose to pay to keep its files safe. Some of the big ones included:. The second half of was suspiciously quiet where data breaches or confirmed ransomware attacks were concerned. Ukraine crisis: what next after a week of talks and tension? Djokovic to face court day before Aus Open. The Wombats will never be an 'overtly positive' band.
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It helps if I want to cheat and get [guitar] tabs, so I can be a cool dad. Warner is making huge strides for inclusivity on gender, ethnicity, sexual identification — fixing a lot of the huge issues that have been in the industry for a long time. It gives me a connection to these African Cuban roots.
I need a new sound. Adler, 27, boosted the availability and use of augmented-reality features at Snapchat. This is a core user segment and why key stakeholders in the music industry have been leveraging Snapchat to drive significant promotional value.
Long gone are the days when a song posted to Facebook would be blocked with a copyright warning. Grenier, 39, has worked to license and integrate lyrics into Facebook or its sister platforms to increase engagement. Southward, 38, is focused on closing deals with publishers.
People have lots of places to listen, to watch, to discover and to connect. We need to challenge ourselves to bring it all together for people and make the magic of music easy [and] awesome. Also the song is so short, I hear it on repeat. Following the May launch of YouTube Music, Cohen, 60, continues in his role as a liaison between the video-first tech giant and a music industry that has a love-hate relationship with the biggest streaming service in the world.
The service reportedly passed 15 million subscribers in May and has rolled out to over 70 countries. The industry is data-obsessed and putting many artists out without real artist development. Evangelista, 34, oversaw a complete rebranding of Vevo, focusing on short-form performance videos from emerging artists.
The result? Original content was boosted by the opening of three studios in New York and London. We were early adopters. As a parent, this app has been transformative for our household. Ghazi who professionally goes solely by his first name has expanded Empire from distribution to recording and publishing, working with a roster that includes Fat Joe , Remy Ma , Young Dolph and the late rapper XXXTentacion.
This year, the artist services platform Stem launched Stem Direct, enabling its account managers to more effectively deliver data analyzed by both humans and algorithms to a selective list of clients.
Kind of like data consultants. Mining data minute by minute has been key to the success of The Orchard, one of the largest distributors of independent repertoire in the world, now doing business in 40 markets. FUGA — an Amsterdam-based business-to-business platform that connects labels, distributors and artist services companies to digital service providers — nearly doubled its staff in the past year as it became a go-to player, handling some 4 million track deliveries to partners in 50 countries.
People know us in markets that, in some cases, we never thought we were known. The number of what goes undistributed is getting smaller and smaller each year. So I use Mogul, a software platform and community that is trying to bridge the leadership gap.
AdRev, which helps creators and companies monetize their YouTube content, has had a banner year under Becker, The company represents a growing roster of artists and publishers with copyrighted music in over million videos.
Both companies have helped established and rising indie songwriters and artists claim unpaid music publishing and neighboring rights royalties from copyright collection societies in 40 territories around the globe. With his company issuing well over million licenses for 20 digital music service providers during the last 10 years, and with over 30, tracks uploaded to services daily, Colitre, 48, has been focused on automating that ever-growing process.
Last December, he was part of a team as a named inventor of a patent that matches sound recordings to underlying compositions and evaluates the songs on a share-by-share basis.
That allows MRI to obtain and administer statutory and direct licenses.
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