The cybersecurity industry is rushing to confront a new identity crisis — not for people, but for AI agents that act autonomously and now need to be managed like employees.

Why it matters: Without proper guardrails, agents could, at the very least, cause incidental data breaches, misuse login credentials, and leak sensitive information.

SK Telecom Co. may face losses of up to 7 trillion won (US$5 billion) over the next three years due to declining revenue and the possible waiving of early termination fees following a major data breach that has shaken consumer trust, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) said Thursday.

"Since the incident, 250,000 subscribers have left. The number could soon reach 2.5 million," CEO Ryu said during a parliamentary session.

DySPAN 2025, the premier international conference on spectrum innovation, was held in London from May 12th to 16th at King’s College London. The event focused on advancing spectrum innovation to meet the growing demands for wireless capacity across diverse applications; DSIT, Ofcom, UK Spectrum Policy Forum, Digital Catapult, and international collaborators supported it. 

• Many major European telcos have been urging the region’s lawmakers to relax M&A and competition rules
• They claim that the only way Europe can compete is to allow companies to gain greater national and regional scale
• Now the EC has started a consultation process on its merger guidelines 
• But not everyone’s in favour of helping the regions’s big guns get bigger

Under intense lobbying pressure from a wide range of companies (including telcos of course) to revamp the European Un

• Together with Ericsson, Vodafone has introduced a new era of tunnel connectivity with the deployment of innovative multiband mobile radio antennas in the Arlinger Tunnel near Pforzheim, Germany
• This installation marks the first operational use of Ericsson’s advanced antenna technology from Ericsson Antenna System (EAS)
• It is precisely engineered to deliver robust and stable 5G coverage in tunnel environments subject to high levels of vibration and air pressure changes

The Arlinger Tunnel, stretching 1,400 me

Industry body Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) did some Wi-Fi 7 trials in relation to enterprise applications and says it clocked increased throughput, lower latency, and enhanced efficiency for high-demand applications.

• Security breach and apparent data leak put SK Telecom into a tailspin
• But South Korea’s biggest mobile operator says it’s determined to right the ship, re-establish trust and be reborn as “faithful to the basics and responsible”
• Even if that means replacing up to 23 million SIM cards 
• But customers are abandoning the SK Telecom ship

South Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is scrambling to reassure customers in the wake of a disa

• Toshiba Europe has announced a breakthrough in quantum communications over standard fibre-optic cable and at normal room temperature
• Simple chip technology replaces complex cryogenics to allow quantum communications over regular telecom infrastructure 
• It has also enabled the first deployment of twin-field quantum-key distribution (TF-QKD) over greater distances than possible with point-to-point QKD
• Possibility of building quantum internet between cities and countries gets closer

• Spain and Portugal suffered a major power outage this week
• Telcos scrambled to switch to power back-up options to maintain at least some services
• Ookla and Cloudflare have reported on the performance of the mobile operators and the impact on internet traffic volumes

• Opensignal surveyed customers of ‘brand MVNOs’ and their host mobile networks in seven markets, including the UK and US
• MVNO users are prepared to accept slower speeds for lower costs
• The MVNO market remains buoyant, with a recent uptick in activity in Europe

A new report has provided some insights into why mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) are continuing to attract more and more customers even when their service performance metrics are poorer than those provided to customers served directly by the hos