Home broadband provider PlusNet UK has slashed the price of its broadband and phone call bundles in half for the first 9 months of service, but only when taken with their line rental product.
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A UK telecoms firm, aql, claims that the end of KCOM's phone and broadband monopoly over the Hull and East Riding (Yorkshire) area could soon come to an end thanks to its new number porting agreement with the incumbent.
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Approximately 11,000 homes in the Havant UK based town of Leigh Park looks set to get a free wireless (Wi-Fi) broadband internet access service tomorrow when CommunityUK completes its first "self-sustaining" network in the area.
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A new report published by the UK Space Agency today aims to promote the advantages of satellite broadband technology for delivering internet access into remote communities. It also calls upon the government to offer setup subsidies, which would off-set the high kit and installation costs, for such locations.
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The UK governments Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has revealed that around 1500 of Virgin Media's broadband ISP customers have been infected by the bank detail stealing SpyEye Trojan.
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A UK ISP and mobile operator, O2, has announced plans to centralise its six regional contact centres into a single £10m virtual, multi-channel IP contact centre.
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Market intelligence firm iSuppli has warned that Mobile Broadband operators from around the world will need to switch to more restrictive and expensive tiered pricing plans or risk a significant detriment to their revenues.
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The UK government MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert, has called for a repeal of the Digital Economy Act (DEA) laws that permit disconnection ("suspension") of users from their broadband ISP and thus the internet.
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Internet based voice calling services ( VoIP ) grew by almost 13% in 2010 to reach a total of 120 million subscribers, which doesn't include Skype's 663 million registered users.
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A UK telecoms supplier, O-bit Telecom, has announced that it will continue to trade under its own brand and business values. The firm was acquired by the Daisy Group earlier this year, although some of their channel customers promptly expressed "strong concerns" over the impact of this and a potential for eroded choice.
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U.K. Broadband, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based PCCW, has revealed its plans to build a superfast Mobile Broadband network in the UK by using 4g LTE technology in the 3.5GHz and 3.6GHz wireless radio spectrum bands.
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Europe could benefit from even faster Mobile Broadband services if it harmonised frequencies in the 1.4GHz radio spectrum band. According to a UK consultancy firm, Plum Consulting, the continent could also rake in an extra GBP47.5bn from such a move.
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Neul, a UK start-up, has proposed its new Smart-Meter and white-space based NeulNET technology as a solution to make broadband wireless internet download speeds of up to 16Mbps available to 99% of the country's population.
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The Information Society Alliance (EURIM) has proposed that the UK adopt a broad principal of infrastructure sharing, which could allow superfast 100Mbps fibre optic broadband ISP services to reach everybody in the country and without incurring extra costs.
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FibreSpeed, Netserve Consultants and Opal IT Services have worked together to deploy a wireless broadband link into the isolated rural Wales (UK) village of Rhiwlas in the Snowdonia foothills.
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BT has announced the next batch of 66 UK telephone exchange upgrades to support its new superfast broadband ISP technologies, most of which will take place towards the end of 2011 and into 2012. The operator has also revealed a new trial of "white space" / Ultra High Frequency (UHF) based wireless internet access technology on the Isle of Bute.
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BT has today announced the first UK pricing for its latest 110Mbps fibre optic broadband ISP product, which makes use of Fibre-to-the-Premises technology. The service is expected to launch before the end of 2011.
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BT has upgraded an additional 5 telephone exchanges in the UK to support its expensive Broadband Enabling Technology (BET) solution. BET can deliver internet speeds of 2Mbps (Megabits per second) to remote rural homes and businesses that reside up to 12km away from their local telephone exchange.
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Media giant BSkyB ( Sky Broadband ) has announced the launch of its new Sky Go service in the UK, which will combine its online broadband TV Sky Player service with their Sky Mobile TV platform. Existing customers will be given free access to the service, which will work on both PC's and mobile devices.
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A new ISPreview.co.uk survey of 685 internet users in the United Kingdom (UK) has revealed that 93.5 Percent would be "Angry" if their broadband provider began limiting access to popular online content or services (e.g. Skype, YouTube etc.) and most of those would switch ISP in order to avoid it.
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