UK ISP PlusNet has decided to celebrate the launch of its new superfast 40Mbps fibre optic broadband internet access services by roping in Roxanne Pallett from ITV's Emmerdale (TV soap) to help race 20 pigeons from Potter’s Field (London) and back to Bloomhill Lofts (Doncaster).
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Avanti reports that its new UK and European HYLAS1 broadband satellite service launch is going well, with around 25,000 customers now being migrated over to the new 10Mbps capable platform. The ISP has also won GBP4.64m from SpaceX after it decided last year to launch the spacecraft on an ESA rocket instead.
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An annual report into global internet censorship from Freedom House has discovered that free speech in the United Kingdom (UK) is becoming increasingly difficult thanks to lots of new rules and regulations being placed upon broadband ISPs.
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A UK court has ruled that the controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law UK, which made its money by "bullying" broadband ISP customers into paying hundreds of pounds to avoid court action over allegations of "illegal" internet copyright infringement (p2p file sharing), may now have to pay the costs of its own failed court case against 27 of those it had accused.
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BSkyB (Sky) has launched a new online only exclusive promotion that gives new adopters of their broadband, TV and calls bundles a free £75 or £100 M&S (Marks and Spencer) voucher.
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O2 UK has launched a new YouTube self-help video channel (O2 Guru TV) that offers free customer support, guides and general advice to all of its fixed line broadband ISP and mobile customers.
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Internet providers (ISP) have given a broadly supportive welcome to plans by Fujitsu to build a new 1Gbps capable fibre optic broadband network ( FTTH ) that could reach 5 Million UK homes in rural areas.
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The idyllic rural English (UK) village of Wray (Lancashire) is set to demonstrate their new community built 30Mbps wireless broadband ISP service by running the world's first live stream of a village cricket match on Easter Monday.
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Several UK advocacy groups have issued an open letter that calls upon Rights Holders to make public their proposals for a new 'Voluntary Code of Practice', which would allow internet providers (ISP) to block any website that is deemed to "facilitate" internet copyright infringement.
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The UK subscription-free broadband ISP based video-on-demand and catch-up TV service, YouView, has officially published its final technical specification ahead of the services launch next year.
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The European Court of Justice's (ECJ) own Advocate General, Pedro Cruz Villalón, has warned that imposing any system upon broadband ISPs that could filter out or block electronic communications (e.g. pirated copyright internet content) would infringe fundamental rights.
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One of the worlds five Regional Internet Registries (RIR), the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), has restricted its supply of crucial ipv4 internet addresses to internet providers (ISP) as their free pool reaches a critical exhaustion point.
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A new survey from Powernet has discovered that 83 Percent of UK businesses are still worried about their ISPs ability to keep up with the growing demands being placed upon existing broadband networks and services.
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The controversial law firm ACS:Law, which sent thousands of "bullying" letters to broadband ISP customers in the UK whom it suspected of being involved with internet piracy, could be forced to pay back tens of thousands of pounds in damages after it failed to sue 27 people last month.
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Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco have announced new plans to develop a superfast FTTH fibre optic broadband ISP network in the UK that could reach 5 Million rural homes.
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European mobile operator Telefonica has predicted that demand could drive the cost of Mobile Broadband data roaming down to almost domestic (cheap) levels by 2015.
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Fibrespeed UK and ISP AB Internet have teamed up to bring a new 6Mbps wireless broadband service to Northern Wales residents in Ysceifiog, Babell, Lixwm and the surrounding areas.
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The European Parliaments (EP) Committee for Industry, Transport and Research (ITRE) has called for "white space" radio spectrum to be made licence exempt in the hope that it might be used to improve indoor Mobile Broadband coverage or to boost the performance of future wireless (Wi-Fi) networks.
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Opera has released a new version (11.10) of its popular free website browsing software that includes a significantly faster Turbo Mode to help surfers on the slowest internet access connections.
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A small pocket of Bournemouth's residents, which had been given access to a superfast 100Mbps fibre optic broadband network by Fibrecity (City Fibre Holdings), have now been without a service for over one month as the projects future remains in doubt.
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