A site guilty of helping to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy), Newzbin2, has mocked an order that forces UK ISP BT to block it by releasing a tool that circumvents the measures before it's even been introduced.
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TalkTalk, a UK internet access provider, reports that 10.7 million UK people still use a phone to call friends and family.
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A UK satellite ISP, Avanti Communications, and niche fixed wireless provider, VFast, have both been selected by Kent council to help deploy superfast broadband services to rural areas in the region.
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A UK consumer group has called for broadband ISPs to be nudged into offering a new range of either 'Pay As You Go' (PAYG) or very-low-cost social tariff packages to help those on lower incomes.
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A once niche provided of superfast fixed wireless (Wi-Fi) broadband internet access services in rural Herefordshire (UK), Allpay Broadband, has announced significant expansion plans and a potential for extending its coverage into south Shropshire.
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Sky are offering a new GBP50 voucher for use in UK Marks and Spencer (M&S) stores when customers take one of their broadband, tv and phone service bundles.
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Next year's UK auction of the 800MHz radio spectrum band, which will be used by a new generation of Mobile Broadband services, has been called into further doubt after it emerged that one of Ofcom's own contractors was selling compatible Channel 69 equipment (hardware that the regulator had previously ordered to be removed) back into the market.
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The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) for England and Wales (UK) has attacked BT's rollout of superfast broadband ISP services for its failure to include rural areas.
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Virgin Media, a UK broadband ISP, has released its latest SuperHub R30 firmware upgrade to hopefully fix the routers long running performance woes with a new Modem Mode and enhanced Wi-Fi speeds.
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Mobile phone operators in the UK have been warned by the government to avoid delaying, through legal action, the forthcoming auction for crucial 4G / LTE superfast mobile broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz).
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A new UK ISP has gone live today called Hyperoptic, which claims to offer affordable ultrafast fibre optic broadband, phone and IPTV services to residents in urban areas (e.g. London) from just £12.50 per month.
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The UK business internet provider, Fluidata, has been listed as no. 17 in a new table of London's Top 20 Fastest-Growing Companies.
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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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