#internet

The Turkish Cypriot legislature on Monday night voted to ratify a controversial deal which will see Turkish telecommunications company Turk Telekom bring fibreoptic internet to the north. The agreement, signed ...

The north’s ruling coalition was accused by opposition political party CTP ‘MP’ Erkut Sahali on Friday of treating the island’s northern third like “the spoils of war” as ...

A controversial deal signed between the north’s ruling coalition and Turkish telecommunications company Turk Telekom which will see Turkish Cypriot taxpayers expend €110 million for the provision of fibreoptic internet ...

Consumer satisfaction with internet services in Cyprus remained high in 2025, a survey conducted by the Communications Commissioner showed on Tuesday. The questionnaire, prepared by the commissioner’s market observatory team, ...

With a loss of €56,283 in cryptocurrency investments, 2025 did not start well for a Limassol man who fell victim to a cyber fraud in the first week of the new year. ...

A new undersea cable linking Cyprus and Lebanon is being planned by Cyta, in a project expected to boost internet speed, emergency response, and economic growth across the region. Called ...

More than four in five consumers don’t know the performance details of their internet service, and many remain unaware of their rights or how to file complaints, a survey ...

Russia’s digital development ministry plans to allocate nearly 60 billion roubles ($660 million) over the next five years to improve the system used to censor web traffic, a government proposal seen ...

The fees levied on internet and telecommunications service providers by the north’s telecommunications department were all doubled, the north’s internet service providers’ association said on Tuesday. The association ...

‘We’ve moved out of the villages, but we still like to know what our neighbours are up to!’ ALIX NORMAN looks at what the island uses the internet for ‘...

Rural areas across Cyprus are to receive “ultra-high-speed” fibreoptic internet networks, Digital Policy Deputy Minister Nikodemos Damianou said on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of a €35 million government project to ...

Ninety one per cent primarily connect to the internet via wireless (Wi-Fi), with mobile phones being the device of choice for 85 per cent, a survey released on Monday showed. Carried ...

Telsim, the largest telecommunications network in the north, have announced that its long-awaited upgrade to 4G mobile internet will be ready for operations on July 30. Speaking on Thursday morning, its ...

Iran has curbed access to Meta Platforms’ META.O Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the country, amid protests over the death of a woman ...

The Authority for Digital Security on Tuesday warned parents about cyber risks for their children and offered advice on keeping them safe. In an announcement, issued for the start of ...

Cyprus has the second lowest coverage of very high-capacity fixed connections (VHCN) in the EU, after Greece, information released by Eurostat on Monday showed. Fast internet connectivity in Cyprus stood ...

Three out of four Cypriots who used the internet for private purposes in 2021 managed access to their personal data online – marginally above the EU27 average of 73 per cent. But only 33 ...

Cyprus currently ranks 35th in the world in terms of digital quality of life (DQL), according to a study conducted by cybersecurity company Surfshark. A DQL index is calculated by ...

One in ten Cypriots say they were misled into buying counterfeits, according to an EU-wide survey released as part of an awareness campaign by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (...

Use of the internet by older Cypriots is at similar levels as the EU average, with 58 per cent of the 65 to 74-year age group saying they had gone online, close ...

Cyprus is one of three EU countries where one-fifth of enterprises with more than 10 people employed used internet-connected devices last year. On Friday, Eurostat reported that in 2020, 18 per cent of ...

Police warned on Wednesday that increased internet use by minors during the pandemic has given sex offenders easier access to their victims. “During the Covid-19 crisis we are going through, ...