Microsoft has teamed up with several UK ISPs, including BT and Sky Broadband (BSkyB), to help it conduct a Cambridge based trial of new white space wireless broadband technology. This makes use of the frequencies that exist between digital terrestrial TV channels.
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Business ISP Griffin Internet has, for the second year running, walked away with the annual Comms Business Awards 2011 gong for Best UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the Year.
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UK ISP BT Retail are offering their anytime phone calls package alongside an up to 20Mbps broadband service for free over the first 3 months of service, after which it will return to just GBP16 per month.
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The OECD has revealed that wireless broadband internet access services have seen significant growth (10%) during the past year (500 million subscriptions) and appear to be overtaking fixed line ISP alternatives (305 million subscriptions), which saw a huge slowdown in uptake (6%).
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Business ISP Easynet Connect has appointed a new General Manager, Andy Horn, to handle the deployment of its new superfast fibre-based broadband and Ethernet products in the London UK area.
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BT has launched a new fault checking service in the UK that should make it possible for ISPs to detect and locate broadband performance problems that have been caused by a High Resistance (HR) fault, such as water damage.
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An Apple Mac friendly internet provider, MacAce, has today launched a new range of up to 40Mbps superfast broadband packages for the UK market.
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The UK Shetland Islands (Scotland) look set to benefit after a new Digital Strategy was adopted that should see 90 Percent of island residents gaining access to a superfast broadband service by March 2016.
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BT's popular broadband TV (IPTV) package, otherwise known as BTVision to its UK customer base, has finally added the full BBC iPlayer platform to its service.
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The UK government's crackdown on internet copyright infringement (piracy) is unlikely to solve the problem after a new survey of BE Broadband's ISP customers revealed that half would sooner conceal their identity on file sharing networks than stop using P2P altogether.
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UK ISPs BT and TalkTalk have lost their High Court appeal against an earlier rejection of their Judicial Review, which claimed that the Digital Economy Act (DEA) for tackling internet copyright infringement was not compatible with EU law.
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A UK ISP and expert in internet content filtering, SO Internet, has said that it supports the government's attempts to clamp down on and filter out adult content online.
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The UK government and Rights Holders appear to have moved one step closer to agreeing a new voluntary block of websites that are deemed to "facilitate" internet copyright infringement. A new working paper suggests several solutions to tackle ISP concerns.
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Gigaclear, a dedicated builder of fibre optic broadband networks, has today made a "substantial" new investment in Rutland Telecom (ISP) to aid in its deployment of superfast internet access services around the UK.
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CityFibre Holdings, which is currently trying to deploy a superfast fibre optic broadband service in the English (UK) seaside town of Bournemouth, has shunned plans by its competitors ( BT and Virgin Media ) to deploy similar ISP solutions in the town.
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A new report has revealed that the communications provider for Hull and East Riding (Yorkshire) in the UK, KC (KCOM), generated an estimated £150 million for the regions local economy last year.
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Satellite ISP Avanti Communications has told the UK government that its new 10Mbps HYLAS1 service can bring broadband to rural communities for less, thus helping to solve the funding shortfall.
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UK ISP Eclipse Internet has warned businesses of a possible "IT meltdown" and "computer chaos" if they allow workers to live stream the annual Wimbledon Tennis tournament over their offices broadband network.
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Ofcom has given the green light for UK mobile operators to trade their Mobile Broadband compatible radio spectrum in the 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands. In addition it has also varied the 2100MHz licences to ensure that 90% of the UK can get a minimum speed of 768Kbps on "a lightly loaded cell" by 30th June 2013.
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Approximately 3500 school children and over 60,000 homes and businesses in the East Sussex towns of Eastbourne and Hastings could benefit after BT announced plans for a major superfast broadband upgrade last week.
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