Avonline has cut the hardware, activation and installation fee of its 'up to' 3.6Mbps (384Kbps upload) Eutelsat based Tooway satellite broadband service by £100, which brings the new starting cost to £599. Service rental prices remain the same and start at £29.99 per month, including a 2.4GB (GigaByte) monthly data usage allowance.

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Mobile operator Three (3) UK has revealed the final pricing and launch date for its new Mobile Wi-Fi device - MiFi. It is essentially a battery powered wireless router that has been designed to distribute the operators Mobile Broadband ( 3G ) service over a Wi-Fi link and was first revealed at the beginning of August (here).

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Peter Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business, and the Digital Britain Forum have both responded to concerns over the governments tougher stance against illegal UK broadband file sharing. The move follows Mandelsons attempt to get the highly controversial 'cut-off illegal downloaders from their ISP' measure added back into the Digital Britain report, which had previously ruled it out.

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Cable giant Virgin Media UK appears to be seeing a change of fortunes on its recently refreshed Virgin.net (Virgin National) ADSL2 ('up to' 20Mbps) broadband service, which is available to consumers who reside outside of the operators cable coverage. Demand for the updated products has apparently been so high that some subscribers are facing longer than expected delays with service activation.

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The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has issued its 2009 'Internet Access Households and Individuals' (.PDF format) report, which reveals that 18.31m UK households now have Internet access (70% of all households - an increase of 1.85m households since 2008).

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Regulator Ofcom has just uploaded a new video guide on how to make a complaint if you have a problem with your UK telecoms or broadband ISP. The guide itself only focuses on the basics and the regulators Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes, although it is still a very useful video.

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Rights collector PRS for Music has released the results of a new study into illegal file sharing, which reveals that the UK TV industry is facing dramatic digital disruption and huge piracy problems. The study, which was presented at the Edinburgh Television Festival, claims that piracy has caused music sales to drop to 1994 levels and is spreading rampantly to TV and Film.

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Mobile operator T-Mobile UK has once again won high praise for its Mobile Broadband service via an independent July 2009 YouGov survey of 2,068 respondents. The results ranked the operator first in 8 out of 15 customer satisfaction metrics, which is similar to its previous top placements in identical Q1 and Q2 2009 surveys (here and here).

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