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A wireless broadband ISP called ITSwisp, which appears to be an off-shoot of another local provider ThinkingWISP, has launched to deliver internet download speeds of up to 8Mbps (Megabits per second) to “serve large areas around” rural Norfolk and Suffolk in England (UK).
Business focused UK ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) has called for a small number of its existing customers to help test a simplified new broadband package that has been specifically designed for home users (aka – Home::1).
The Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, is expected to announce that broadband ISPs will soon be required to introduce even tougher censorship measures against adult internet websites. The move is intended to help parents protect children online but many question whether they will be effective.
A Freedom of Information Act (FoI) request submitted by ISPreview.co.uk has revealed more details about the specific roles of staff working in the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, which is responsible for overseeing the national and publicly funded roll-out of superfast broadband services to 90% of people by spring 2015.
The UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has issued a generally flat response to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, which in September 2012 released a report that criticised the broadband strategy in Wales for being “behind schedule” and called for the new networks to be “implemented without delay“.