The UK government has officially distanced itself from the Conservative MP for Wiltshire, Claire Perry, whom has repeatedly demanded that broadband ISPs in the UK be "required" to restrict universal access to adult content by default.
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Internet provider TalkTalk has mocked the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) by reintroducing its banned "UK's safest broadband" claim, albeit with the addition of the word "connection" tacked on.
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BT's national UK telecoms and broadband network is being affected by a major service failure this afternoon, not to mention the damage caused by recent high winds and localised flooding around the country.
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The UK Valuation Office Agency (VOA) appears to have proposed a new way of taxing Next Generation Access (NGA) fibre optic broadband lines in rural areas where public subsidies are required. The move, if implemented, could result in smaller ISPs being taxed in a similar way to big operators.
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The Director of Consumer Services for Hull ISP KC (KCOM Group), Nick Thompson, has predicted that 2012 could see the emergence of 'two-tier fibre deployments' between slower FTTC and faster true fibre optic FTTH technology supporting UK providers.
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The B4RN project, which aims to deploy its own community built and funded 1000Mbps capable fibre optic (FTTH) broadband ISP service to thousands of homes in north Lancashire UK, has uploaded an educational new video from its recent launch event that does an excellent job of explaining the many problems of broadband provision in rural areas.
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The UK Country Land and Business Association (CLA) have today praised the government's launch of a new 'Rural and Farming Network', which could help to address the many rural difficulties in getting adequate broadband connections.
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Mobile operator Three (3) UK has today spoken quite candidly about its Mobile Broadband service speeds and said that customers should typically expect to receive between 1-4Mbps (Megabits per second), which should improve over the coming years thanks to 4G technology.
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UK ISP TalkTalk has been forced to pull a high profile TV, national press and poster advertising campaign after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that it misleadingly claimed to be the country's "safest broadband" service, which could not in fact be substantiated.
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The latest consumer broadband speed testing statistics for UK ISPs shows that the overall average internet download speed has grown sharply from 5.685Mbps last year to 7.578Mbps now. Cable operator Virgin Media remains the fastest provider, although BT and Eclipse Internet also made significant gains.
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TalkTalk, a budget UK internet and phone provider, has appointed an ex-O2 head, Dan Meader, to be their new Mobile Director. The move is part of wider plans to launch a series of new mobile products and services during Spring 2012, which Meader will be responsible for.
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A new survey of 880 people in the United Kingdom by ISPreview.co.uk has discovered that 34% plan to swap broadband ISP in 2012, with frustration at slow internet speeds and poor reliability helping to drive their decisions.
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The PostOffice has begun offering a £50 credit to new and upgrading customers who join their Home Phone and Broadband bundle packages. In addition anybody needing a new phone line install can now get it done for FREE until March 2012, which represents a saving of £112.34 off the normal price.
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A trade body for UK music has report strong growth in digital sales but slammed the government for "taking too long to act" against the "chronic piracy" caused by broadband ISP customers.
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ISPreview.co.uk would just like to wish all of you, those whom are still awake and possibly even sober, a very Happy New Year 2012.
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BT has confirmed that a further five communities in Cornwall have been connected to superfast broadband as part of the wider £132 Million public and private sector partnership project, which aims to connect at least 80% (ideally 90%) of the regions homes and businesses by the end of 2014.
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BT has announced that the pilot phase of its UK superfast broadband speed upgrade, which will push its FTTC ( e.g. BT-Infinity ) internet download speeds from up to 40Mbps to a maximum of 80Mbps, will officially begin in early February 2012.
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The availability of good broadband internet access appears to have helped many of the local authority districts in Halifax's latest annual Quality of Life Survey 2011, which lists the top 50 places to live in the UK.
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Internet users in the UK broke a new record on Boxing Day when 96 million of them went online to shop at retail websites, which is up by 40% on the same day last year.
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Rural parts of Wales look set to benefit from faster internet access speeds after UK telecoms operator BT announced the latest spate of telephone exchange upgrades for its 'up to 20Mbps' advanced copper broadband (ADSL2+) ISP services.
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