By Cyber Era Staff UK TMT regulator, Ofcom has fined Post Office £175,000(US$227,953.25) after an investigation found the company overcharged people with hearing or speech impairments who made telephone calls using a relay service. Relay services help people with hearing and speech difficulties communicate with anyone over the phone by offering text-to-speech and speech-to-text translation. Ofcom rules required phone providers to offer a ‘special tariff scheme’ for these types of calls when they were made by challenged people. The scheme was designed to compensate those callers for the additional time...

Samsung Electronics acquired US-based network services provider TeleWorld Solutions (TWS) for an undisclosed sum, as part of a bid by the South Korea-based vendor to strengthen its services portfolio and bolster its growing networks business. The company stated TWS will bring competency in RF, along with expertise in network design, installation, testing and optimisation services for cable and mobile operators. The business will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary, with its current leadership team continuing to helm. EVP and head of Samsung Electronics’ Networks business, Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun said the deal...