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Users in the UK and across the world are unable to send or receive emails via Yahoo's platform.

The former BT boss Gavin Patterson is due to take his first major role since leaving the telecoms giant by joining the Silicon Valley software company Salesforce.

This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Connectivity & Tech subscribers. To receive the full story plus other insights each morning, click here. California-based communications startup Common Networks has launched its $49-a-month, 300 Mbps consumer fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband home-internet service in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to Fierce Wireless . The service uses signals in the unlicensed 5 GHz and 60 GHz bands of spectrum and links services in existing customers' homes to other homes to create a distributed broadband infrastructure, while only needing limited connections to fiber sources in a given area. Common Networks is one of a number of companies — both startups and incumbents — that are trying to disrupt the home-internet market. In the US, telecoms including T-Mobile and Verizon are offering home broadband service via their cellular networks. T-Mobile's pilot service uses its 4G network, so data going to its home-internet customers is essentially the same as mobile broadband traffic to smartphones and other mobile devices.

As telecoms set their 5G networks live and debut compatible devices, they must determine how to charge for 5G services. Given the current paucity of actual subscribers to those services — they're mostly comprised of tech-savvy consumers and first-adopters — it's a natural time for telecoms to experiment with pricing regimes and different ways of charging for service. But it seems that charging higher prices for 5G may not be a sustainable approach, based on comments from the executive team of UK operator British Telecom (BT) on the company's fiscal Q1 (ended June 30, 2019) earnings call. Under its EE brand, BT launched the first 5G network in the UK this May, which includes a surcharge for access to the network and its faster data speeds. Data plans for EE's 5G devices and SIM cards start at £32 ($39) per month for a 20Gb allowance. An equivalent plan for a 4G device is £20 ($24), though the 5G plans also include some other perks, such as access to BT video content or the ability for consumers to exclude some activities from their monthly data allowance.

Ministers should rip up planning rules to deliver Boris Johnson's promise of super-fast broadband to every home, the head of Britain's biggest telecoms company has said.