Ofcom, a telecoms regulator for the United Kingdom (UK), could soon force BT to make its Dark Fibre broadband lines available to competitors when it moves to review the business connectivity market later this year.
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A shortage of specialist ADSL2+ routers has caused Be Broadband, a UK based internet provider, to suspend new orders of their 44Mbps Line Bonding service. Apparently the ISP has seen "overwhelming demand" for the product and couldn't keep pace.
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A UK internet provider, Entanet, has said that the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, made the right decision last week when it ruled that the government's plan to force broadband ISPs into blocking piracy websites for Copyright owners would "not be effective".
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The UK City of York could soon benefit from a free city-wide wireless (Wi-Fi) internet access service, which is all thanks to its recently completed GBP13.7m fibre optic broadband network.
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The latest study of broadband ISP speeds in the United Kingdom (UK) by content delivery experts Pando Networks has discovered that the country's national average internet download speed is just 3.85Mbps (Megabits per second). Be Broadband ( O2 ) also came out as the fastest and most reliable ISP.
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Virgin Media, a cable operator for the UK, has announced a new one-off discount off customers' first bills for its broadband and phone (dual) or broadband, phone and TV (triple) bundles worth GBP30 and GBP60 respectively; this is in addition to their existing first 6 months half price and FREE install promos.
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Virgin Media, a UK cable operator, has announced that 2,000 of its broadband and tv customers in Westminster (London) are to be left without a service after it withdraws from the area next January 2012 because of a dispute with rival telecoms operator BT.
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Mobile operator Orange UK has re-launched its Mobile Broadband packages with unlimited Wi-Fi access from BT and introduced a new free weekly film download service for all of its customers called 'Film To Go'.
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The UK cable operator, Virgin Media, has announced that its broadband, tv and phone network will have been expanded to cover an additional 100,000 homes by the end of 2011.
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CityFibre Holdings, which recently restarted work to deploy a superfast fibre optic FTTH broadband ISP network in England's (UK) southern seaside city of Bournemouth, has confirmed that "almost all" of the original projects problems have finally been resolved.
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Bentley Walker, a UK based satellite operator, has released two new videos that explain how to install a KA-SAT dish for their latest Eutelsat based Tooway satellite broadband service.
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Two new studies have warned that internet providers (ISP) in the United States and other country's could be using a new method of hijacking their customers search engine traffic in order to earn a crafty profit from Affiliate networks.
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A UK business ISP, Internet Central, has been awarded the ISO 27001 certification for its ability to keep the data and confidential information of its customers secure.
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A new YouGov study of 7,759 broadband connected adults in the United Kingdom (UK) has claimed that most ISP subscribers overpay by an average of GBP140 a year and 4.87 million (25%) have never switched provider.
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BT has announced plans to trial a Fibre Only Exchange (FOX) service in the UK, which would see one lucky rural telephone exchange being upgraded to deliver nothing but the very latest superfast fibre optic broadband (FTTP) and phone services.
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The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has released its latest annual report into the country's telecoms and media markets. The study found that 76% of UK homes are now connected to the internet and those with a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service tend to have higher satisfaction (80%) than those on traditional broadband (57%).
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TalkTalk, a UK broadband ISP, has announced that it is it setup a new customer support centre in India. The move follows the signing of a new deal with Wipro BPO.
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The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has thrown out plans by the government to force broadband internet providers (ISP) into blocking piracy websites. However ISP customers will now need to pay £20 in order to appeal against any accusations of involvement with internet copyright infringement.
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Two lawyers working for the UK solicitors firm Davenport Lyons have been fined and suspended from practicing for three months over their role in "targeting [broadband isp customers] innocent of any copyright breach" with letters demanding huge cash payments.
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Satellite operator Hughes Europe and UK ISP Bentley Walker have today signed a new deal for the launch of Avanti HYLAS1 based broadband services, which could deliver download speeds of up to 10Mbps into rural parts of the United Kingdom.
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