The UK Country Land and Business Association (CLA) have announced the launch of its 'Can’t Get Online Week' campaign, which aims to raise the plight of woeful broadband connectivity in rural parts of England and Wales.
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The UK government will tomorrow call upon online ad firms and search engines to crack down upon internet copyright infringement (piracy) or risk the imposition of new legislation through a revised Communications Bill.
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Ofcom has today banned UK telecoms firms and broadband ISPs from selling Automatically Renewable Contracts (ARCs), which unjustly "tie customers into repeated minimum contract periods" and thus make it harder to leave your internet and or phone provider.
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The national UK telecoms operator, BT Group, has today released a new batch of 114 telephone exchange upgrades that will help to extend the reach of its fibre optic ( FTTC , FTTP ) based superfast broadband ISP services to reach 66% of the country by 2015.
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Nearly two thirds of UK internet users have admitted to using somebody else's unsecured home Wi-Fi network, without the owner's permission, to get online.
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A new Point Topic study has revealed that broadband internet access prices can be over 1,000 times higher in poorer countries where many people cannot afford it.
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A large swathe of United Kingdom (UK) based internet providers (ISP) and telecom firms have made it into the annual Telegraph 1000, which lists Britain's brightest businesses for 2011.
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Cisco has revealed new details about the hardware behind a trial of up to 1.5Gbps cable broadband ISP services in the UK, which is being conducted by Virgin Media.
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BT, the UK telecoms giant, has been accused by one of its biggest rivals (TalkTalk) of attempting to rebuild its national monopoly by retaining tight control over their new generation of superfast FTTC broadband services.
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A Satellite ISP, Avanti Communications, has revealed that it could use a new dual-feed antenna (LNB) to combine High Definition TV (HDTV), VoIP and broadband data signal services to consumers in the UK.
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A survey of 564 people in the United Kingdom by ISPreview.co.uk has discovered that most of the major broadband ISPs fail to clearly publicise their upload speeds, which is despite 50% of consumers rating upload performance as being "Very Important" when picking a new provider.
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A new CBI / KPMG study of almost 500 UK businesses has found that 58% would rate the country's infrastructure as being worse than other European states, yet 73% claimed to have seen an improvement in digital broadband ISP networks and services.
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People in the Medway (South East England, UK) can now access superfast broadband speeds of up to 40Mbps thanks to a new local wireless ( Wi-Fi ) internet access provider called Medwave.
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Satellite operator Iridium has launched a new service that can turn its devices into extremely slow Wi-Fi hotspots for sharing internet access.
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Netadmin Systems has revealed more details about its partnership with Fluidata and Magdalene, which jointly seek to fix the United Kingdom's (UK) broken rural broadband ISP market by aggregating open access wholesale networks for all to use.
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Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK has added a 1571 Answer Phone and Call Barring options to its Home Talk (line rental and cheaper calls) service.
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Be Broadband, a popular UK internet provider, has suspended the sale of its "16 Static IPs" option from their top end BE Pro package, which caters for heavy users and professionals.
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TalkTalk has scrapped 575 jobs at its Waterford call centre in Ireland because more of its broadband ISP customers in the UK are now using their online support services instead. The move will also reduce its exposure to Euro exchange rate fluctuations.
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Two UK counties, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, have decided to merge their broadband improvement plans and procurement processes into a single team that will boost their efforts and help to save money.
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TalkTalk has today appointed Agama Technologies to help monitor the service quality of its forthcoming broadband television product, which is called 'TalkTalk TV'. The UK IPTV service is expected to begin trials soon ahead of a launch next year.
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