The UK county of Durham has announced plans to bid for a major superfast broadband contract, which would bring improved internet access to the 60% of homes that aren't already covered.

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A UK government peer for the Labour party, Lord West, has called for an urgent crackdown on Internet Service Providers (ISP) that unlawfully intercept their customers private email messages.

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Ofcom UK has announced new proposals to ban landline phone and broadband ISP contracts that automatically roll-over (renew) unless the customer opts-out. Such contracts can make it harder to change provider without incurring heavy penalty charges.

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UK ISP Virgin Media is hoping to improve multiplayer gaming by conducting a new trial of peak time upstream P2P and Newsgroup traffic management between the new hours of 5PM and Midnight this week. If successful the policy will be rolled out across their network.

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A UK mobile operator , O2 , has said that it is exploring the option of using the faster next generation 4G (LTE) Mobile Broadband technology to support a new two tier internet content and service delivery platform.

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Broadband ISPs in the UK have today given a strongly mixed reaction to Ofcom's latest report into the country's broadband speeds and related "up to" performance advertising. The report found that the national average internet download speed had risen to 6.2Mbps, which is well below the average advertised rate of 13.8Mbps.

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According to Net Applications the UK is now home to 2.83 Percent (51,444,000) of all internet users in the entire world, placing 7th ahead of France and below India.

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UK ISP TalkTalk has had its wrists slapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which upheld four complaints against one of its "misleading" regional press (newspaper) adverts.

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