Virgin Media, a UK focused cable operator, has caused frustration among its customers after surprising them with a heap of new broadband and phone price rises. Just in time for Easter.
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Analysys Mason has estimated that between 98-99% of UK homes and businesses could one day access superfast broadband ISP services via FTTC technology, but only if band plan, vectoring and line bonding solutions are used.
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Internet provider O2 UK has launched a new promotion that offers up to 6 months of free service on its Business Broadband and Landline phone packages.
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BT has announced that it is now home to a total of 6,144,000 retail broadband ISP subscribers in the UK and has begun testing a new 1Gbps fibre optic (FTTP) service. The telecoms giant has also launched a new 'FTTP on Demand' service, which could in theory allow them to deploy ultrafast 330Mbps FTTP broadband services to almost anywhere that its slower FTTC goes.
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Business UK ISP Fluidata has confirmed that they will, by default, enable IPv6 for all new internet subscribers by 6th June 2012 (i.e. World IPV6 Launch Day).
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Budget UK internet provider PlusNet has cut the cost of its superfast (40Mbps) fibre broadband packages in half for the first 3 months of service. For example, packages now start at just £8.24 a month instead of the usual £16.49.
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BT has revealed the pricing for its new Fibre Voice Access (FVA-FTTP) product, which will provide UK customers on its truly fibre optic (Fibre-to-the-Premises) superfast broadband ISP lines with a voice (telephone) service.
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Ofcom, the United Kingdom's telecoms regulator, has revealed in a new study that broadband ISPs in the UK deliver a national average internet download speed of 7.6Mbps (up from 6.8Mbps in July 2011). Sadly most continue to advertise headline speeds that are double what they actually deliver to customers.
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A new survey has revealed that the average broadband ISP internet download speed in the UK, during January 2012, was 8.210Mbps (Megabits per second). Cable provider Virgin Media was the fastest on 15.331Mbps.
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North Tyneside has rebuffed last week's UK government concern, which feared that the local council would not be able to produce a Local Broadband Plan before the deadline, by confirming that BT would still be able to cover 91% of the borough with superfast broadband by 2015 and without using public money.
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Welsh ISP Bluewave Internet has successfully used WiMAX wireless broadband technology to deliver internet speeds of up to 20Mbps into the isolated rural village of Llanfynydd in south west Wales (UK), with more places set to follow.
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), a UK focused advertising watchdog, has banned an advert for BT's broadband ISP services after it misleadingly claimed to offer the country's "most reliable wireless connection".
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Scotland has today released its national Infrastructure Action Plan, which sets out how the country will bring superfast broadband speeds of 40-80Mbps to 85-90% of premises by 2015.
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The TFL Group, a wireless networking provider, has accused telecoms giant BT of providing "astronomical quotations" for the installation of sub-par broadband ISP services to local businesses in rural parts of south and western Wales (UK).
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Return Path, Google, AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft and many ISPs have joined together to launch a new technical specification (DMARC) that should help to combat the rising tide of fake / malicious and unauthenticated phishing email (spam).
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Sky has today announced the launch of their first superfast unlimited broadband package and an extension of their existing unbundled network coverage to reach 88% of the UK by June 2013 (currently 82%). The operator, which topped 3.65 Million internet subscribers in Q4-2011, has also taken the wraps off a new Internet TV (IPTV) service and its free public Wi-Fi product.
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Akamai's latest quarterly State of the Internet Q3 2011 report has revealed that the average global broadband internet (ISP) download speed has risen by 4.5% in the quarter to 2.7Mbps (Megabits/sec). By comparison the UK average speed increased from 5Mbps to 5.1Mbps over the same period, which caused our world ranking to fall from 25th to 27th place.
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The UK county of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have moved to allay government fears over the status of their superfast broadband deployment plans by putting out a new tender that's worth up to £100m.
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Sky (BSkyB) has today made its Video-on-Demand (VoD) service, Sky Anytime+, available to all broadband ISPs in the UK and added new content from both the ITV and BBC TV channels.
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Business ISP Fluidata has warned that office internet capacity could suffer during the 2012 Olympic Games as workers login to view live video (IPTV) streams of their favourite events.
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