ISPreview UK would just like to wish anybody that's awake, and potentially still sober, a very Happy New Year 2011.
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Powerline Communications (PLC), a technology that sends broadband internet access along a country's existing national grid power cables, looks set to make a comeback after the UK city of Liverpool announced plans for a 200Mbps trial.
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A survey of 5,200 British people by ISP Sky Broadband UK found that most would rather give up chocolate, alcohol, sex, TV or mobile phones than lose their internet access.
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The BT UK 'Race to Infinity' campaign, which aims to gauge how much demand exists for its new superfast broadband ISP services, will officially come to an end tomorrow. The campaign will reward five areas with a free superfast connection upgrade by 2012 and the front runners are as follows.
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The UK county of Lincolnshire and its local council have revealed plans to bid for a slice of government cash, which would be used to help improve the regions broadband internet access coverage and performance.
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A government MP for North Norfolk, Norman Lamb, has called on Norfolk County Council (NCC) not to delay in bidding for a slice of the governments cash to help improve broadband internet access around the UK by 2015 (could rise to GBP830m by 2017).
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The
e-Learning Foundation has revealed that 3 million children in the UK live in households without either computers (1 million) or internet access (2 million).
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Satellite ISP Eutelsat has successfully launched its new 6.1 tonne KA-SAT broadband satellite into orbit. The spacecraft will offer broadband internet download speeds of up to 10Mbps (4Mbps upload) to rural European and UK homes.
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ISPreview.co.uk would just like to wish all of you a very happy holiday season and Merry Christmas!
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Business ISP Demon Internet UK has revealed that 1 in 6 Brits will use their broadband internet connection to work from home on Christmas Day.
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The Castle Quay (St. Helier Waterfront) development on the UK Channel Island of Jersey is now able to receive broadband ISP speeds of up to 1Gbps (1024Mbps) thanks to a new fibre optic cable.
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Clackmannanshire in Scotland (UK) has won a GBP200k grant to help the rural area gain access to faster broadband ISP services by using a pilot WiMAX wireless broadband solution to deliver download speeds of up to 20Mbps.
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The European Union has given state aid clearance for the Shetland Islands Council to benefit from a new fibre optic broadband cable link with mainland Scotland (UK).
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UK ISP Breathe Internet has, after a long period of inactivity, returned to launch a cheap unlimited 24Mbps broadband package and to give its ancient website a new lick of paint.
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Cable operator Virgin Media are offering a number of special XMas broadband bundles. One in particular includes their superfast 50Mb internet service from just GBP15.75 a month for the first 6 months. This includes GBP50 credit on your first bill and free install.
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ISP BT Retail has launched a special Christmas deal that bundles a 20Mb broadband connection with free UK evening and weekend calls from just £6.99 per month.
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Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the West End of London (UK) have lost internet and phone services after a flood from an adjacent business triggered a fire at the BT Gerrard Street Exchange.
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The Shadow Business Minister and MP for Wrexham, Ian Lucas, has slammed the central UK government for not allocating any money to help homes and businesses in Wales get super-fast broadband. However no money has been specifically allocated to England or Scotland either.
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Cable operator Virgin Media UK, which supplies broadband ISP and phone bundles to consumers, has signed a new extension contract with Telindus to manage the service and customer support of its network.
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An exclusive ISPreview.co.uk interview with Guy Jarvis, the founder of community broadband developer Fibrestream (NextGenUs), concerning UK next generation broadband ISP developments in 2010/11 and the future market impact.
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