Eurobites: BT's Allera has another nibble at net neutrality

Nokia is to build a new R&D campus in Oulu, Finland, with work starting on it next summer – after some local roads have been suitably rearranged – and a scheduled completion date of 2025. Oulu, dubbed controversially by Nokia as the "Home of Radio," "enjoys" a subarctic continental climate and is Nokia's third major domestic site alongside Tampere and Espoo.

Some Virgin Media customers were left without TV services for more than ten hours yesterday (Thursday) in the UK after what the cable operator described as a "major power outage." As the BBC reports, troubleshooter website Downdetector received more than 18,000 complaints from telly-starved Brits at one point.

Also complaining is the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO), which reckons that the EU member states' progress on the NIS 2 cyber directive is all well and good but falls short of "securing the ICT supply chain." As the directive moves towards being finalized, ETNO calls on the powers-that-be to take a "broader look [at] ICT service providers" and to provide a "comprehensive and future-proof cybersecurity framework for all crucial ICT suppliers."

Tree-planting: it's the new rock and roll. Earlier this week Eurobites was digging the arboreal deeds of Telefónica in Spain, and now it's the turn of Openreach engineers – with the assistance of local volunteers – in the English county of Lincolnshire to spread the leaf love, with a planting of 3,339 saplings in the village of Old Bolingbroke. Figure 1: Can you dig it? Openreach engineers spread the tree love in Lincolnshire.
(Source: Openreach)

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading