The UK Bath & North East Somerset Council has been forced to review last week's rejection of nearly £700k in central government funding, which could have been used to improve the areas broadband internet access services.
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UK ISP Entanet has claimed that the UK government's aim of bringing superfast broadband internet access services to 90% of people by 2015 is at risk after Geo Networks withdrew from the process last week.
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3UK (Three), despite being the smallest mobile phone operator in the UK market (8% customer share), has claimed that it accounts for 40% of all of the country's mobile data (Mobile Broadband) traffic combined.
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The UK town of Burton looks set to solve its long running broadband ISP speed and capacity woes during early 2012, which is thanks to a new agreement between BT and the regional council.
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Criminals whom attempted to steal vital copper telecoms cable in North Luffenham (Leicestershire, UK) left many local homes and businesses without a stable phone and broadband service for several days last week.
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The isolated Rural North Yorkshire UK village of Wombleton looks set to gain a superfast broadband service after a new wireless ISP called 'I Love Broadband' announced its expansion into the area.
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The UK government has been left feeling somewhat embarrassed today after one of the key civil servant authors of its internet anti-piracy legislation (Digital Economy Act) confirmed that the law had been constructed without viable evidence.
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A new survey from The Cloud, a wireless internet operator, has claimed that 59% of small UK businesses fail to offer a Wi-Fi service and 44% have no plans to do so, which is despite demand from customers.
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The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA), which works to support the development of local superfast broadband projects, has warned that the governments Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office should review how it functions before more telecoms operators walk away over the perceived lack of a level playing field.
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Several broadband ISPs in the UK appear to have restricted their customers' access to the Fileserve online file storage website. The Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) child sexual abuse block list appears to be at least partly to blame.
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An Ofcom approved consumer complaints handler, Ombudsman Services, has warned UK mobile operators to put more effort into preventing the "bill shocks" that can occur when Mobile Broadband users exceed their data allowances.
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BT to bring ultrafast 100Mbps fibre optic broadband internet access services to high-rise residential buildings in East London UK.
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The national 2011 NextGen conference has awarded three UK projects for delivering viable broadband internet access solutions into difficult areas.
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The European Parliament has adopted a tough new stance that calls upon the Commission, Member States (including the UK) and EU telecoms regulators to ensure that consumer broadband and mobile internet connections are not disrupted by network congestion or blocked and or unfairly discriminated against by ISPs.
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Zen Internet, a reputable UK internet provider with a focus on business and home workers, has announced the first prices for its 100Mbps fibre optic broadband packages.
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Birmingham Council has put out a new GBP125 Million (+vat) tender for a city wide "ultra-fast" wireless broadband network, which would be built over a period of 6 years.
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The UK county of Wiltshire has said that it will spend more than £20m to bring superfast broadband ISP services to 85% of local homes and businesses by 2015.
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Chair of the Wales Tourism Alliance, Chris Osborne, has warned that poor broadband connectivity is holding back tourism in rural parts of the country.
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The Bath & North East Somerset Council (BNESC) has rejected the UK central governments offer of £670,000, which could have improved superfast broadband coverage in rural areas, because it would allegedly be too expensive.
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The last of British Telecom's (BT) old Wholesale Line Rental 2 (WLR2) telephone lines, which date back to an era when BT had an unfair grasp of the wider UK telecoms market, have now officially all been migrated over to its more open WLR3 platform.
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