The CBI, a lobby group for British businesses, has today called upon the UK government to compete on a global stage by expanding its broadband ambitions through a "longer-term aspiration" to become the best broadband economy in the world.
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Ofcom has today launched its final consultation on the auction of future superfast 4g Mobile Broadband spectrum in the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands. The new consultation proposes to extend the UK coverage of related services from 95% to 98% of the country and puts forward several measures to prevent any one operator from holding too much spectrum.
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Business ISP Fluidata and Independent Fibre Networks Limited (IFNL) have today announced the "largest publicly available" deployment of a 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband services to over 50,000 newly built commercial and residential properties at more than 20 sites across the UK.
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Cable (DOCSIS) operator Virgin Media has today moved to combat BT in the United Kingdom (UK) by doubling all of its broadband internet access speeds, with the maximum package now offering a download rate of 120Mbps (Megabits per second).
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BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT's UK telecoms network, has launched a new promotion that pays ISPs £50 for every 2nd telephone line they're able to activate at a home or business.
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UK ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) and telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent have today announced the country's first official deployment of a high-speed optical transmission network, which should deliver a major internet capacity boost to the provider's 3.5 Million customers.
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Ofcom has published three new research reports to help it identify the best way of creating a consistent and representative measurement system for gauging the level of illegal internet copyright infringement (piracy) in the UK. One study estimated that the country was home to 6.7 million "illegal downloaders".
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A survey of over 2,000 UK people conducted by Virgin Media and ICM has revealed that broadband offers the best value for money as an entertainment service and, when times are hard, is the service that people would least like to chop.
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Allpay Broadband, a Herefordshire UK focused wireless internet provider, has announced the further expansion and improvement of its service in 2012 to include yet more urban and rural parts of the county.
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The oppositions Shadow Minister for Regional Growth, Gordon Marsden MP, has accused the UK government of causing "delay and uncertainty" with its failure to allocate £1bn of EU funding that could potentially be spent on rural broadband improvement projects.
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3UK (Three), a UK based Mobile Broadband operator, has reported that New Year's Eve saw a 600% rise in Smartphone based mobile data consumption to total 80 TeraBytes (TB). That's a massive jump on last year's 14TBs.
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The "all-you-can-eat" Netflix internet TV and film video streaming service has officially gone live in the UK and for a cost of just £5.99 per month.
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UK ISP PlusNet have expanded their 6 Months Half Price Home Broadband with free phone calls deal to include their top-end 'Extra' packages, which bundles a larger 60GB usage allowance.
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Existing O2 Mobile customers in the UK can now take the operators Home Broadband (fixed line) service at half price for 12 months, while new customers are still able to take advantage of 3 months free service. A free £30 credit is also being thrown in.
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ISPreview.co.uk has today looked back at the performance of broadband ISPs throughout 2011, irrespective of size (market share), and concluded a selection of the best UK internet providers based on a balance of reliability, price and performance.
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Vaioni, a UK based business ISP, has launched a new BTWholesale based up to 35Mbps capable Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) product for its corporate and channel customers.
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A new study from Arieso, the UK based wireless optimization firm, has revealed that a top 1% of heavy Mobile Broadband users consume half of all downloaded data. Owners of Apple's iPhone 4S Smartphone were also found to be some of the worst data hogs.
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O2 UK has today announced that people in the central London areas of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea will soon be able to benefit from the launch of Europe's largest free wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) zone.
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Solicitors firm Ralli UK has forced Golden Eye International to drop its case against a broadband ISP customer whom had been unfairly accused of piracy for allegedly sharing the adult video 'Fancy an Indian?'.
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A new KPMG survey has predicted that car manufacturers, over the next five years, will increasingly add sophisticated internet access and related information and communications technologies to cars.
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