The UK county of Lancashire has confirm plans to bid for £29.5m worth of public government and EU funds to help it deploy superfast broadband services across the entire region by 2014.
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People visiting Barnsley town centre in the UK county of Yorkshire will be pleased to learn that they should now be able to gain free wireless (wi-fi) internet access.
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The boss of a UK based business internet provider, Fluidata, has warned that adapting to the new generation of IPv6 internet addresses could be harder than first thought due to the human difficulty of being able to remember them.
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Vispa, a UK internet provider, has launched a new range of Home Saver broadband bundle packages that combined line rental and 300 minutes of anytime calls with the first 3 months half price.
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Plans to launch a subscription-free broadband TV service in the UK next year could be under threat due to the country's pitiful broadband infrastructure, claims one of the YouView project's partners.
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Business ISP Eclipse Internet is offering a free connection on their UK Fibre Broadband and or Bonded DSL services until 20th August 2011.
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Two UK broadband ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, have been granted permission to appeal and expedition against the findings of an earlier Judicial Review into the controversial Digital Economy Act and its measures to tackle internet piracy.
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Cable operator Virgin Media has successfully connected its first real business customers to their 1.5Gbps broadband trial in East London (UK), which it believes to be the "world's fastest cable connection".
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The UK government appears to be expanding its superfast broadband budget of £530m until 2015 to include cities as well as rural areas.
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Broadband ISP Aquiss have introduced 1 month contracts and free activation or migration as standard alongside their 'up to' 24Mbps Family Value ADSL2+ packages.
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Thousands of UK homes and businesses in Byfleet have been left without phone and broadband ISP services after thieves stole a sizable amount of valuable copper telecoms cable from BT.
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Business ISP Fluidata reported a 45% surge in UK office broadband internet traffic on Tuesday as workers went online to view live video streams of Rupert Murdoch being grilled by a Culture Select Committee Hearing.
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KC (KCOM) has revealed plans to bring a new 100Mbps fibre optic broadband service to 15,000 homes in Hull (Yorkshire, UK) over the next 18 months.
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Broadband ISPs in the UK have welcomed efforts by the national communications regulator, Ofcom, to force BT into cutting its wholesale prices by 12% below inflation in rural parts of the country.
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A new Ofcom UK study of broadband and phone customers found that people were most dissatisfied by TalkTalk's service. As a result the regulator has introduced new powers to help consumers get their complaints resolved.
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Entanet, a UK communications provider, has warned that the government's rejuvenated attempts to snoop on the internet activity of its citizens raises serious privacy, cost, security and feasibility concerns for ISPs.
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The UK Country Land and Business Association have announced a new national wayleave agreement that could make it easier, faster and cheaper to deploy superfast broadband into rural parts of England and Wales.
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Orange UK has removed the Fair Usage Policies (FUP) from its entire range of low-cost Home Broadband ISP and call packages. The move is aimed at turning the operator into the country's "best value unlimited broadband and calls" provider.
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Cable operator Virgin Media has expanded the UK reach of its new 100Mbps (Megabits per second) broadband ISP service to cover 6.5 million homes (25% of the country).
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Ofcom has today forced BT Wholesale to cut its UK broadband line rental prices by 12% below inflation, although the move will only affect 11.7% of premises in mostly rural parts of the country.
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