Two million elderly and disabled people who rely on lifesaving personal alarms are to be protected during the digital ...

BT and other telecoms companies have been told to test emergency alarms for the elderly after the digital landline switchover ...

Nancy VanCleve’s landline is her lifeline. She knows it’s old-fashioned, but she has no interest in a cell phone.

The UK Government’s Telecoms Minister, Sir Chris Bryant, has today announced that he's agreed a new 'Telecare National Action ...

New measures to bolster protections for elderly and disabled people relying on lifesaving alarms to call for help. New measures will bolster ...

Concerns have been raised ahead of plans to switch old landlines to digital services across Helensburgh and Lomond.

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has today released a progress update on their Digital Landline Switchover (DLS) programme ...

Daisy is an AI chatbot, designed by British telecom giant Virgin Media O2, to give scammers a taste of their own medicine.

A British company launched an AI chatbot that mimicked a grandmother to engage scammers, wasting their time and exposing their tactics to protect consumers.

The Met Office explained how power outages could hit homes - with households told to consider "gathering torches and ...

Daisy works by answering calls in real-time, mimicking human conversation to engage scammers, ultimately reducing the number of successful scams and protecting vulnerable consumers.

Readers may recall that in June 2022, the Advertiser published a letter titled “Prisoners of a modern age” from a gentleman ...