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<title><![CDATA[UK ISP Supplier Entanet Offers Expanded Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband Products]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/08/uk-isp-supplier-entanet-offers-expanded-fibre-optic-fttp-broadband-products.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Entanet, a UK wholesale voice and data communications provider, has today announced a new range of superfast fibre optic broadband ( <a href=http://www.ispreview.co.uk/broadband_cable.php target=new>FTTP</a> ) services for its ISP (channel/vISP) customers. The new products will offer internet download speeds of up to 110Mbps (Megabits per second).]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:44:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Virgin Media UK Tops 4.35 Million Broadband ISP Subscribers in Q4 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/08/virgin-media-uk-tops-4-35-million-broadband-isp-subscribers-in-q4-2011.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cable operator <a href=http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=207585&a=2006649&g=19806906 target=new>Virgin Media</a> UK has announced that it added +17,500 new broadband ISP subscribers in the latest quarter (Q4) to 31st December 2011 and is now home to a total of 4,351,100.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scottish MEP Appointed Rapporteur for Controversial ACTA Copyright Treaty]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/08/scottish-labour-mep-appointed-rapporteur-for-controversial-acta-copyright-treaty.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Scottish Labour's European Member of Parliament (MEP), David Martin, has been appointed as the new investigator for the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Critics view this as a "worrying sign" and claim that Martin has a poor record of "protecting freedoms online".]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:13:10 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UPD2 Defunct South Yorkshire UK Digital Region ISP RiPWiRE Gobbled up by Ask4]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/08/defunct-south-yorkshire-uk-digital-region-isp-ripwire-gobbled-up-by-ask4.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sheffield-based UK ISP Ask4 has officially acquired the troubled Digital Region customer base of defunct South Yorkshire ISP RiPWiRE, which ceased to trade at the start of this month.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:08:33 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study Finds UK House Prices Could Benefit from Superfast Broadband]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/08/study-finds-uk-house-prices-could-benefit-from-superfast-broadband.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new survey conducted with over 1,200 UK based readers of the independent consumer Internet Service Provider (ISP) information website, ISPreview.co.uk, has found that 57% would pay more for a house equipped with superfast broadband access.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:01:30 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UPD UK Home and Small Business Broadband ISP Lines Top 20.3 Million in Q3 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/uk-home-and-small-business-broadband-isp-lines-top-20-3-million-in-q3-2011.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has revealed that the UK is now home to a total of 20.275 Million fixed line home and small business broadband ISP connections.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:46:06 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ofcom to Reveal New Broadband Migration System for UK ISPs]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/ofcom-to-reveal-new-broadband-migration-system-for-uk-isps.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ofcom will, before mid-February 2012, reveal a new migration system for consumer broadband ISPs and phone providers in the UK that should make the whole switching process "quicker, cheaper and easier".]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:32:56 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BE Broadband Updates on Slow FTTC Progress and Starts Core Network Upgrade]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/be-broadband-updates-on-slow-fttc-progress-and-starts-core-network-upgrade.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[UK ISP <a href=http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=3605&id=110483 target=new>Be Broadband</a> is set to begin migrating their first customers onto a new core network by the end of this month, which should improve performance and add new features. At the same time the providers MD, Chris Stenning, confirmed that a rollout plan for superfast broadband (FTTC) has finally be submitted for approval by parent <a href=http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=3232&id=110483 target=new>O2</a> UK.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:19:56 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TalkTalk UK Continues Decline as Broadband Subscribers Shrink to 4.08 Million]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/talktalk-uk-continues-decline-as-broadband-subscribers-shrink-to-4-08-million.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[UK ISP <a href=http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/goto.asp?type=1&LinkTrackerId=1200&redirect=1&partner=ispreview target=new>TalkTalk</a> has seen yet another sharp decline as its broadband subscriber base fell by -43,000 for a second quarter to reach a new total of 4,079,000. But their future prospects are beginning to look more positive.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:39:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avanti Communications UK Secures Funding for HYLAS 3 Broadband Satellite]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/avanti-communications-uk-secures-funding-for-hylas-3-broadband-satellite.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Broadband <a href=http://www.ispreview.co.uk/broadband_satellite.php target=new>Satellite</a> ISP <a href=http://www.avanti-communications.com target=new>Avanti</a> has secured &pound;74 Million to help it design and build the next HYLAS 3 spacecraft in its fleet, which will deliver enhanced coverage of the Middle East and Africa. However HYLAS 3, which is the last of Avanti's planned fleet, isn't likely to launch until 2015.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:50:09 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today is Safer Internet Day 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/today-is-safer-internet-day-2012.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Children and families from all around the UK and 69 other countries will today be encouraged to safely discover the digital world together as part of the ninth annual Safer Internet Day 2012 event.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:19:46 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CLA Slams Virgin Media Broadband Speed Boost as Unfair to UK Rural Areas]]></title>
<link>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/02/07/cla-claims-virgin-media-broadband-speed-boost-is-unfair-to-uk-rural-areas.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The UK <a href=http://www.cla.org.uk target=new>Country Land and Business Association</a> has accused cable operator <a href=http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=207585&a=2006649&g=19806906 target=new>Virgin Media</a> of being "unfair to rural homes and businesses" after it began doubling the speed of its customers broadband connections for free.]]></description>
<category>Internet</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:05:17 +0100</pubDate>
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