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Budget internet provider TalkTalk has this week joined Sky Broadband, Orange UK (Everything Everywhere), O2 UK (BE Broadband) and Virgin Media in preventing their customers from being able to view The Pirate Bay website over internet copyright infringement (piracy) abuse. BT is expected to follow.
Broadband provider ADSL24 has introduced a series of new “Fibre” superfast broadband (FTTC) packages, which come with greater usage allowance flexibility and faster internet download speeds of up to 80Mbps (previously 40Mbps).
Business focused internet provider FidoNet has today launched a surprisingly good promotion that offers 6 months of free superfast broadband, half price installation (i.e. £50 +vat), free SIP account and a free wireless router (wifi) to new customers.
The Cloud (BSkyB) has today signed a new deal to rollout free wireless broadband (wifi) services across 66 RUSH Hair salons in London and the South, which apparently makes it the first UK salon chain to do so.
The seemingly endless fallout from April’s collapse of NextGenUs UK CIC (NGU), which supplied several rural communities with broadband before a mess of managerial and financial mishaps sent it into administration (here), appears to be continuing after a dispute over ownership of a vital fibre optic cable resulted in two Lincolnshire villages being cut off from the internet.
The Belfast City Council (BCC) will later today announce a new plan to blanket most of Belfast city (i.e. the capital of Northern Ireland, UK) in a free wireless internet access service for use by all residents and visitors.