Europe will be home to a total of 160 million broadband ISP subscribers by 2020 and just over one in three will take an IPTV service from their provider.
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The law firm Golden Eye has attempted to sue several UK based individuals for internet piracy after it accused them of abusing their broadband ISP connections to share a porn film online.
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Cable operator Virgin Media UK has announced a new "Tickle" campaign that aims to reward its existing customers with a plethora of free extras and gifts.
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The performance of next generation superfast Mobile Broadband services (4G / LTE) in London UK could suffer unless mobile operators install an additional 70,000 small cells and 2,000 nodes covering the Underground network by 2015.
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A new IDATE study has revealed that ultrafast fibre optic (FTTH/B/P) broadband internet access services in Europe (EU-35) can now reach 25 million homes after growing by 26% during H1-2011. The UK telecoms operator, BT, has also appeared for the first time with 250,000 homes passed.
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3UK, a UK based mobile phone operator, has called upon the regulator (Ofcom) to speed up the process of releasing new Mobile Broadband spectrum otherwise its 3G network could begin running out of capacity in urban areas by the end of 2012.
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The European Commission (EC) has joined forces with SamKnows and TP-LINK in the UK to produce a new pan-European map of broadband internet access performance, which will be used to assess the progress of the EC's Digital Agenda project.
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Three (3), a UK mobile phone operator, has made its unlimited "all-you-can-eat" Mobile Broadband data service available to all of its new and existing customers.
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New research from Ericsson, Arthur D. Little and Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology in 33 OECD countries has discovered that a doubling of broadband ISP speeds can boost a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 0.3%!
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TalkTalk's CTO, David Goldie, has once again called upon the government and Ofcom to ensure "effective and vigorous competition" in the UK's growing market for a new generation of superfast broadband ISP services.
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The UK advertising watchdog (ASA) will this will clamp down on broadband internet providers (ISP) that promote unachievable download speeds and unrealistic "unlimited" use claims.
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People in the United Kingdom spent a total of 3.4 billion hours using the internet during August 2011 and use of social media sites (Twitter, Facebook etc.) turned out to be the single most popular activity (800 million hours).
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The ITU has released its latest flagship annual report into global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) uptake, which found that the price of broadband had fallen by 52% between 2008 and 2010, meanwhile the UK ranked just 4th in the world for fixed line internet access speeds.
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ISP BT Retail, a national telecoms operator for the UK, has launched a new deal that offers 4 months of free broadband with unlimited evening and weekend calls (£13 per month thereafter).
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A new website has launched in Europe, RespectMyNet, which allows consumers to report whether or not their broadband ISP or mobile operator is imposing service limits that break Net Neutrality (the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal).
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A new study from Acision and YouGov has found that 54% of UK Mobile Broadband customers suffered slow speeds (down from 67% in 2010) and 42% experienced connection problems (down from 45% in 2010.
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The controversial YouView project, which will be used by several UK based broadband ISPs in a new deployment of internet TV (IPTV) services, has confirmed that it's still "
on track to launch in early 2012".
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UK Broadband, which is owned by the Hong Kong-based PCCW, has confirmed that it will step in with Capita to help save Swindon Borough Council's troubled FREE wireless (Wi-Fi) internet service.
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Mobile operator O2 has reintroduced "truly unlimited downloads" to two of its top Home Broadband ISP packages in the UK.
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A global study of broadband internet download speeds across 224 countries has revealed that the UK sits just above the average with a rate of 599KBps (4.69Mbps if you prefer). By contrast South Korea is the fastest on 2,202KBps (17.62Mbps) and the Congo is the slowest at a measly 13KBps.
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