The latest episode of the BBC's 'Rip Off Britain' TV show has attempted to highlight how many people in rural areas are forced to pay more for broadband internet access and yet receive a slower service.
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UK ISP PlusNet has released the results of a new survey that found 26% of people still don't know what common internet related terms like 'bandwidth', 'Wi-Fi' and 'download' mean.
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BT has upgraded a rural telephone exchange in the UK (CLEY) after locals complained that it was attempting to service hundreds of 'up to' 8Mbps broadband connections with a single 10Mbps link.
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The UK Bath & North East Somerset Council (BNESC) has been told by a cross-party panel of backbench councillors to officially reconsider last month's rejection of £670,000 in central government funding, which would have been used to help improve the regions broadband internet access infrastructure.
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The UK has passed a significant milestone after Ofcom revealed that the country had became home to over 20 Million (20,266,000) fixed line broadband ISP connections during Q2-2011.
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Ofcom's latest 2011 Consumer Experience has revealed that UK consumers are becoming increasingly satisfied with their broadband internet access speed but many still find it difficult to switch provider.
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UK ISP TalkTalk has been forced to remind parents that adult internet content filtering systems are no substitute for good parenting. The comments came after a parent revealed that TalkTalk's own HomeSafe service had been circumvented by one of the webs largest porn sites.
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Microsoft's XBox 360 video game consoles will begin receiving a new update today that looks set to turn the devices into a major new broadband fuelled film and TV media hub for the home.
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Virgin Media UK has announced tentative plans to offer a new device to consumers that will combine 4G (Mobile Broadband) and femtocell technology in order to overcome the growing demand for wireless data.
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MS3 Communications has announced that its project to build a completely independent fibre optic broadband network for businesses in Hull (United Kingdom) has taken a big step forward thanks to a new access agreement with the Humber Bridge Board.
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BT Group's CEO, Ian Livingston, has informed the UK government of his plans to "largely eradicate" the country's many areas of slow or no broadband internet access and bring superfast 100Mbps services to "most homes". But he'll need more public money to do it.
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Shoppers at any of Tesco's UK supermarket stores can now also benefit from free wireless internet access ( Wi-Fi ).
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A UK community network specialist, Fibrestream, has announced the expansion of its NextGenUs superfast fibre optic broadband ISP services into rural parts of north Lancashire.
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The UK governments Valuation Office Agency (VOA) could soon propose new guidance and potentially lower prices for fibre optic broadband lines, which could make it easier for ISPs that want to deploy superfast internet services into rural areas.
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Europe has warned businesses and broadband ISPs around the continent to "act now" and get on with the "very important" job of upgrading their internet networks to support IPv6 ASAP, ideally before the last remaining IPv4 addresses run out next year.
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The 2012 ISPA Awards process, which seeks to identify and celebrate the best internet providers in the industry, has officially opened for registration with two new categories - 'Best New ISP' and the 'Customer Choice Award'.
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Mobile operator and home phone provider O2 UK has launched a new promotion that offers 2 months of free service to new Home Broadband subscribers and 6 months of free service if you're an existing customer.
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Entanet's UK ISP clients will soon be offering a new and affordable broadband package that claims to offer "FREE bandwidth" to consumers from 7pm till 7am Monday to Friday and across the entire weekend.
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The Internet access division of UK media giant Sky (BSkyB) - Sky Broadband - has added an additional 7Tbps Terabits per second of capacity to its internet access network with a new fibre optic link. The move should help to keep its bandwidth hungry ISP customers happy for a little while longer.
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Thousands of rural homes in Lancashire UK could soon benefit from access to a new community owned and built "
hyper-fast" 1Gbps fibre optic broadband ISP connection, thanks to the Broadband 4 Rural North (B4RN) project.
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