The Digital Divide between rural and urban UK areas is continuing to grow, especially when it comes to the quality and performance of broadband ISP services.
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The UK governments Francis Maude has announced plans to save over GBP112m by making the majority of applications for public services online-only by 2013. This ignores the fact that roughly one third of the country still has no internet access at home.
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BT is planning to bundle FREE YouView internet TV set-top-box's with its broadband ISP packages at some point during the first half of next year.
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The
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released new research into the role that global broadband ISPs can play in helping to mitigate the impact of internet SPAM and Botnets.
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Cable broadband operator Virgin Media UK has revealed that it could launch a public wireless ( Wi-Fi ) Hotspot internet access service in the near future.
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Satellite broadband provider BeyonDSL UK (
ASTRA2Connect) has launched a new
Winter Sale that reduces the price of all its various internet access packages.
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Survey experts at
YouGov have teamed up with Epitiro, a broadband measurement specialist, to publish The Broadband Report. This, they claim, will be the UK's first online analysis of both consumer broadband ISP satisfaction and actual service levels.
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Ofcom confirms that it has opened a new investigation into whether or not broadband ISP TalkTalk had mis-sold its fixed line phone services or switched consumers lines without their consent.
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European satellite operator
Eutelsat has revealed that its new 10Mbps capable KA-SAT broadband Satellite is now in the final stages of readiness for launch on a Proton rocket for 20th December 2010.
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Wireless ISP AB Internet UK has announced fresh investment of GBP450,000 to help thousands of homes and businesses in North Wales gain access to faster wireless broadband internet connections.
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The
Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) has released a new guide that provides practical guidance to communities seeking to meet their own needs with respect to future broadband networks.
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BT has revealed details of the first 8 communities to benefit from its £132 Million project to roll-out super-fast fibre optic based broadband services across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (UK).
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The government has moved to clarify a speech last week on Net Neutrality (the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal), which appeared to give big broadband ISPs the ability to favour some online content over others, depending on who coughed up the most cash.
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Broadband ISPs and online content providers have penned an open letter on Libel Law reform to the UK government, which calls for it to help protect open discussion (free speech) on the internet.
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Cable giant Virgin Media has warned the UK government not to burn its £830m pot of public money, which has been set aside until 2017 to help the rollout of new "
super-fast" broadband services into areas where private sector investment alone will not go, on BT .
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Plans by the UK government to shun the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal, which could potentially allow big broadband ISPs to favour some online content over others and hinder access to popular services (Youtube etc.), have gained a mixed response from the ISPs themselves.
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UK ISP Be Broadband has offered up a new twist to Movember, an annual celebration of the moustache that helps to raise money and awareness of men's health issues, by re-designing one of its ADSL2+ router modems and asking others to get involved too.
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The
Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) has accused
Davenport Lyons, a notorious law firm, of knowingly "
targeting people innocent of any copyright breach" when they sent "
bullying" settlement letters to those suspected of being involved with illegal broadband ISP based P2P / File Sharing.
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Broadband Satellite provider
Avonline has informed its customers not to expected a price rise after January 2011's 2.5% increase in Value Added Tax (VAT).
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Mobile operator Three (3) has let loose a bunch of so called Human Hotspots across London, and several other UK regions, with the aim of giving people in their vicinity free broadband internet access via Wi-Fi.
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