UK Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, has opened a new broadband wireless ( Wi-Fi ) network in the Oxfordshire town of Wallingford today. The network covers the town centre and is completely free for locals to use.

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Broadband internet and phone provider TalkTalk ( AOL UK , Tiscali , Opal ) has added a new 100 Mobile Minutes Boost (add-on) option for its customers, which at £2.93 extra per month on top of your existing subscription will provide 100 minutes (monthly) of calls to UK mobile numbers (normal call rates for 100 minutes is equal to roughly £12). Customers will also get £30 back when they join online.

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New customers who order a BT Broadband and Calls (Phone) bundle or a Broadband, Calls and Vision TV package can now claim a £25 Gift Voucher for use in any John Lewis store across the UK. Prices start from just £6.99 per month.

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Analysts working for Acision, and using some YouGov research, have revealed that 84% of UK Mobile Broadband consumers have serious issues with service quality. Some 67% complained about slow speeds, 49% were frustrated by coverage problems and 45% have been hit with connectivity woes.

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Cable giant Virgin Media UK has confirmed that its controversial trial of Detica's CView Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, which is designed to monitor and measure the level of copyright infringement ("illegal" copyright P2P file sharing) among broadband customers on an internet provider's (ISP) network, has been put on hold.

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The European Commission (EC) is taking the UK to the EU Court of Justice for failing to fully implement its internet and email privacy rules (ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC and Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC). The original case was brought after BT angered many by running two secret trials of Phorm technology, which many likened to Spyware, on customers, and without their consent, during 2006 and 2007.

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Some 80-90% of local premises across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (UK) can now expected "super-fast" fibre broadband (FTTC / FTTP) speeds of up to 100Mb by 2014, thanks to a new £132 million part-European funded BT project.

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UK ISP Virgin Media has revealed that it's upgrading the upload speeds on all of its broadband ISP packages for FREE and introducing "smart" Traffic Management restrictions during peak times.

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