UK ISP TalkTalk has once again been labelled as the country's most complained about telecoms operator for its fixed line broadband and phone services by Ofcom, while Virgin Media and Sky Broadband have won praise for being two of the best. Three (3) was the worst for mobile services.
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The Metropolitan Police and BT have launched the Waste and Metal Theft Task Force, which forms part of a national crackdown on metal and copper cable theft that has damaged telecoms, broadband and transport services around the UK.
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Some 20,000 homes and businesses in the digitally isolated UK town of Milton Keynes will be able to get superfast broadband services from BT by the end of 2012.
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The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which threatens to turn European Internet providers (ISP) into a copyright police force, has been quietly adopted by the Council of the European Union.
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK has officially scrapped its ancient 'Vodafone At Home' fixed line broadband + phone bundle and migrated their existing customers to rival ISP PlusNet.
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McDonald has released an interesting new list of its top 10 UK restaurants for wireless (Wi-Fi) internet usage, with London's Holloway Road placing first.
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Ofcom has today moved to make UK superfast fibre optic broadband ISP services cheaper to procure and easier to install / maintain by slashing the minimum battery back-up time from 4 hours to just 1 hour. Others might view this as simply prioritising cost over safety.
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The new Chief Executive of Sony Music UK has launched a scathing attack on broadband ISPs for building their businesses "on the back of illegal filesharing". The comments appear to show a lack of knowledge about how internet provision works in the real world.
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A team of scientists working at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have announced a new record after they were able to transfer data in opposite directions, over a Wide Area Network (WAN) circuit, at a combined rate of 186Gbps.
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The next generation of 4G superfast Mobile Broadband phones and devices could suffer from compatibility problems because many countries around the world have chosen to use different radio spectrum bands.
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Telecoms operator BT has cut the price of its superfast broadband (40Mbps) internet access and free call bundles in the UK, with prices now starting at just £7.50 a month!
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Home internet and phone provider TalkTalk UK has announced that 100% of its electricity will now be coming from renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectric dams and wind turbines.
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The UK government's Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt, has today warned local councils that they have until the end of February 2012 to submit a draft 'Local Broadband Plan' for helping rural areas access superfast broadband and the final plan must be agreed by the end of April 2012.
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Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has become the latest UK ISP to prevent its internet access customers from being able to access the Newzbin2 piracy website, although many still doubt that such blocks are effective and the EU recently suggested that they could even be "illegal".
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Entanet, a prominent UK ISP supplier, has reported "higher-than-expected demand" from business customers for its new generation of fibre-based (FTTC) superfast broadband internet access packages.
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The latest statistics from Eurostat have revealed that the UK is in an extremely strong position within Europe, at least we are when it comes to internet access provision and our love of online shopping.
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The UK Isle of Wight looks set to benefit after a plan to invest £15 Million into bringing superfast broadband services to the islands rural areas was finally approved.
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Technology company TTP has told the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium this week that 'White Space' (802.22) wireless networking technology could be used to bring broadband to 600,000 premises in remote rural parts of the UK where fixed line services fail to deliver.
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Point Topic reports that the UK added 289,000 new broadband lines in Q3 2011 (up from +240,100 in Q2), which made it the "best third quarter since 2008" for growth. The firm also suggests that take up of superfast broadband ISP services should "accelerate quite significantly" in 2012.
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Ofcom's latest 2011 International Communications Market Report has revealed that the UK compares well with other countries when it comes to the availability of superfast broadband ISP services (59%), yet it suffers due to a woeful uptake of just 4%. By contrast Japan has a 40% uptake and the USA sits on 10%.
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