Several UK ISPs have warned customers that a number of major websites might become unavailable today (e.g. Wikipedia and the Internet Archive) as part of a deliberate 12 to 24 hour blackout campaign against a controversial new Internet Anti-Piracy law.
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Customers of Virgin Media's broadband services in the UK were hit by a major national service outage yesterday afternoon, which lasted for roughly 3 hours but has now been resolved.
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NEC appears to have set a new record after it demonstrated the ability to send 1.15Terabits per second of data / internet connectivity via a single laser and over a single "ultra-long haul" (10,000km) fibre optic cable with no repeaters.
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South Yorkshire's traumatised Digital Region project, which aimed to deploy superfast broadband services to 80% of regional homes and businesses by mid-2012, has continued to bleed money and now risks collapse after posting an annual loss of over £9m for 2011.
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More than 400 families stationed that RAF Leeming in the UK will soon be able to access faster broadband ISP speeds of up to 10Mbps thanks to a new wireless network.
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A major brand review at UK mobile operators Orange and T-Mobile, which in 2010 merged to be controlled by a joint corporate management company (Everything Everywhere), has reportedly resulted in the development of a new single name for both operators.
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Scotland's (UK) Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has confirmed that its project to rollout superfast broadband services in the rural north and west of the country will, with help from BT as the only interested operator left, start in 2013 and cost up to GBP300 Million.
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Cable giant Virgin Media has issued an update to confirm that UK customers on its 50Mbps cable broadband packages will now be upgraded to the faster speed of 120Mbps instead of 100Mbps as originally announced last week.
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Two UK Internet Service Providers, BT and TalkTalk, have today begun their appeal against the governments controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA). The ISPs claim that the anti-piracy act is not compatible with several European laws, a position that was upheld last year by Lord Justice Lewison.
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ISP Seethelight has today revealed the first live coverage locations for IFNL and Fluidata's new UK focused and 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic (FTTH) broadband internet access service.
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The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), an internet access focused think-tank for the UK government, has welcomed new tax guidance that could make it fairer and cheaper to deploy superfast fibre optic broadband ISP lines into rural areas.
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Andrew Crossley will today go before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) as part of a prosecution brought against him by the SRA. This relates to ACS:Law's "amateurish and slipshod" attempts to "bully" UK internet users into paying hefty fines for alleged involvement with illegal copyright infringement (piracy).
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Namesco, a UK broadband and webhosting ISP, has been hit by hackers that stole some of their customers personal information and credit card details. To make matters worse the hosting giant then made its own security notice look like a fake phishing email.
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UK ISP Andrews & Arnold ( AAISP ) has revealed that trials of BT's latest 'up to' 80Mbps fttc technology have been able to deliver internet download speeds of between 57Mbps and 79.7Mbps to existing customers.
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The UK Labour Party's Shadow Minister for Media, Helen Goodman MP, has slammed the government's delay in getting its auction of superfast 4g (LTE) Mobile Broadband spectrum off the ground. Goodman believes that the delay could be costing up to GBP1 million a day in lost revenue.
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Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the UK Green Party, has called for the government to include Brighton in its plan to help fund faster broadband services in up to 10 "super-connected cities". At present the city falls just below the government's threshold of 150,000 dwellings.
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New statistics have revealed that the world is now home to a total of 581.3 Million broadband ISP subscriber lines, with superfast fibre optic broadband services seeing the strongest growth as they cannibalise customers from existing platforms.
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GiffGaff, a budget priced UK mobile operator, has begun threatening customers with disconnection after it discovered that 1% of "unlimited mobile internet" users were consuming over a third of its total Mobile Broadband capacity.
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The Bath & North East Somerset Council (BNESC) has finally approved a somewhat weak new plan to boost the UK regions broadband speeds after having initially rejected a proposal for using central government funds.
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A new European Action Plan has been released that aims to double e-Commerce by, among other things, fostering the development of "serious broadband bandwidth".
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