TalkTalk, a UK internet access and phone provider, has been hit by a major service outage today that has taken its primary website and member account administration services offline.
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BT has launched a range of new offers on its superfast 40Mbps next generation broadband packages (BT-Infinity), which now include the first 3 months of service for free. However, these deals are only available when bundled alongside BT's line rental and cheaper phone call services.
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BT is recruiting approximately 200 ex-Armed Forces (military) personnel to help deploy the next generation of its superfast fibre optic broadband internet access services around the UK.
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The UK public sector controlled ISP, NYnet, has confirmed the launch of its new GBP30m project to make superfast broadband internet access services available to 12,000 businesses and 500,000 residents in North Yorkshire.
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Scottish Widows has slammed the "worrying trend" of broadband internet access being seen as a more "essential" service by UK adults than critical illness and life insurance.
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Consumer ISP PlusNet UK has today launched a new value-added extra called 'Plusnet Pro', which offers internet 'traffic prioritisation' services to its existing broadband subscribers and for a small additional monthly cost (GBP5).
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ABI Research claims that the world will be home to 16 million next generation LTE (4G) Mobile Broadband subscribers by the end of 2011.
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The boss of a small UK community network specialist, Fibrestream, has accused BT of replacing stolen copper cable with an inferior substitute that delivers slower broadband internet speeds. BT has strongly denied the claim.
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Efforts to restart work on Bournemouth City's 100Mbps superfast fibre optic (FTTH) broadband ISP network look increasingly uncertain after the local council admitted that it still didn't know when the work would resume.
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The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, expects that it will be forced to intervene in an on-going telecoms industry dispute and set the prices for access to BT's national network of telegraph poles and cable ducts itself.
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Ofcom UK has revealed that it could be 12 more months before broadband ISPs are issued with their first Copyright Infringement Reports (CIR) against customers suspected of involvement with internet piracy.
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The national UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, is reportedly about to proposing a series of three new options for improving customer migration between communications providers (telephone operators and broadband ISPs).
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BTWholesale UK is struggling to fix a persistent error with the charges that it makes for CP / ISP requested special fault investigation (SFI2) visits by engineers.
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Several local UK county councils have today said that they expect to be told this week whether or not their bids for public money, which will be used to improve local broadband internet access services, has been granted.
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PlusNet, a UK internet service provider, is currently offering a '12 Months Half Price' deal on its cheapest budget broadband package, but only when taken with its Home Phone service (line rental and free off-peak/weekend calls).
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Cable giant Virgin Media has once again topped the monthly UK charts for the fastest broadband internet provider (ISP) after recording an average download speed of 13.231Mbps. By contrast the national average is just 7.150Mbps.
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