Telecoms analyst Point Topic UK has reported that residential consumer broadband prices per Megabit (Mb) have continued to fall in 2011, driven down by competition from faster internet access technologies and services.
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Billion UK claims to have become one of the world's first manufacturers of broadband ISP routers and networking kit to be "ready and compliant with the new IP address naming structure, IPv6".
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The rural village of Shap in Cumbria (United Kingdom) will soon be able to get faster broadband internet access via electricity cables. The effort is all thanks to Gridline Communications, a USA based firm, and its implementation of Broadband over Power Line (Power Communications) technology.
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A new UK review into the sexualisation of children has called for broadband internet providers (ISP) to restrict access to related adult content.
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The boss of an outspoken UK internet provider, AAISP, has slammed the national telecoms operator (BT) for "failing to understand the basics of IP networking" after it allegedly could not cope with a complaint about random packet loss on one of the ISPs broadband lines.
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A group of UK ISPs have called upon BT Openreach to offer more information and clarity alongside their rollout of superfast 40Mbps FTTC broadband services. At present BT only reveals when a telephone exchange has been upgraded and not when the areas street cabinets are due to follow suit.
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UK ISP Virgin Media has cut the price of its triple-play broadband, phone and television bundles by GBP100, which is on top of its existing free installation and set-top-box promotions.
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UK ISP Timico has acquired one of its rivals in the internet provision industry, Powernet (Power Internet Limited), in what appears to have been a fairly friendly acquisition.
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The UK and France have been singled out by a new report from the United Nation's Human Rights Council, which attacks their adoption of new rules that could lead to broadband users being forcibly disconnected from the internet by their ISP.
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UK ISP PlusNet has announced its intention to launch a trial of IPv6 based internet address connectivity on the 8th June 2011, which will coincide with the 'World IPv6 Day' event when major internet content providers (e.g. Goole etc.) will offer their services over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test flight".
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A UK internet provider, AAISP, has announced that all new customers - both business and consumer - will now receive an IPv6 compatible ISP service and router as standard when they sign-up for a new broadband install.
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OnLive, which allows people to play the latest PC, PS3 and XBox360 games (without owning them) via a live and remotely controlled internet broadband video stream, is set to announce its autumn UK launch alongside ISP BT Retail.
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A new study of 100 IT decision makers from Powernet, a UK based business internet provider (ISP), has discovered that 27% thought that the government is confused about how it will roll out faster broadband and most wanted to keep Net Neutrality (the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal) intact.
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Cable ISP Virgin Media has topped the latest monthly study of broadband internet access provider speeds in the UK, while the national average rate declined from 7.150Mbps in April 2011 to 6.970Mbps now.
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The new generation of superfast Mobile Broadband services, many of which will be delivered over the new 800MHz radio spectrum band, could cause 3% of UK homes to lose their digital terrestrial television (tv) services because of interference.
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Business ISP Easynet Connect has launched a new bonded ADSL broadband solution for the UK market that claims to offer download speeds of up to 60Mbps (4Mbps uploads), 1:1 contention ratio and a 100% uptime guarantee.
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Cisco has released its latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast for 2011, which predicted that world internet data traffic will jump from 242.4 ExaBytes in 2010 to hit 965.5 ExaBytes in 2015. It also found that the average fixed broadband ISP speed, which stood at 7Mbps (Megabits per second) in 2010, will jump to 28Mbps in 2015; the UK alone will hit 29Mbps in the same year.
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The European Union (EU) has released a new scoreboard to highlight the progress of its Digital Agenda action plan. Unfortunately this reveals that the continent is still miles behind in its ambition to bring superfast 30Mbps broadband internet access services to all of its citizens by 2020.
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