Entanet, a UK internet provider, has celebrated its recent 4 star rating for ipv6 readiness by the RIPE regional internet registry and warned that 56% of UK ISPs still have no IPv6 compatibility at all.
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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 6.8Mbps. Sadly most continue to advertise service speeds that are well over more than half of what they can actually deliver.
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The North Lincolnshire Council (NLC) and North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC) have quietly reveal plans to jointly bid for UK and EU government funding that could result in 100% of the area being given access to superfast broadband speeds of 30Mbps.
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Schools and council buildings in Doncaster (United Kingdom) should soon be able to access superfast broadband ISP services, thanks in no small part to the signing of a new network expansion deal with the Digital Region project.
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The UK Communications Consumer Panel (CCP) has called upon Ofcom to consider using some of the money from its future 4G mobile broadband radio spectrum auction to boost outdoor coverage from 95% to 98% at a cost of around GBP250m.
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Akamai, a global internet content delivery giant, has released its latest quarterly 'State of the Internet Q1-2011' report and discovered that the average global broadband connection speed is now 2.1Mbps. By contrast the UK has an average speed of 4.6Mbps.
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Retail supermarket chain Tesco has announced an ambition to bring free wireless (wifi) internet access to all of its 2700 stores in the United Kingdom (UK).
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The UK county of Lancashire has confirm plans to bid for £29.5m worth of public government and EU funds to help it deploy superfast broadband services across the entire region by 2014.
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People visiting Barnsley town centre in the UK county of Yorkshire will be pleased to learn that they should now be able to gain free wireless (wi-fi) internet access.
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The boss of a UK based business internet provider, Fluidata, has warned that adapting to the new generation of IPv6 internet addresses could be harder than first thought due to the human difficulty of being able to remember them.
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Vispa, a UK internet provider, has launched a new range of Home Saver broadband bundle packages that combined line rental and 300 minutes of anytime calls with the first 3 months half price.
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Plans to launch a subscription-free broadband TV service in the UK next year could be under threat due to the country's pitiful broadband infrastructure, claims one of the YouView project's partners.
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Business ISP Eclipse Internet is offering a free connection on their UK Fibre Broadband and or Bonded DSL services until 20th August 2011.
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Two UK broadband ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, have been granted permission to appeal and expedition against the findings of an earlier Judicial Review into the controversial Digital Economy Act and its measures to tackle internet piracy.
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Cable operator Virgin Media has successfully connected its first real business customers to their 1.5Gbps broadband trial in East London (UK), which it believes to be the "world's fastest cable connection".
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The UK government appears to be expanding its superfast broadband budget of £530m until 2015 to include cities as well as rural areas.
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Broadband ISP Aquiss have introduced 1 month contracts and free activation or migration as standard alongside their 'up to' 24Mbps Family Value ADSL2+ packages.
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Thousands of UK homes and businesses in Byfleet have been left without phone and broadband ISP services after thieves stole a sizable amount of valuable copper telecoms cable from BT.
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Business ISP Fluidata reported a 45% surge in UK office broadband internet traffic on Tuesday as workers went online to view live video streams of Rupert Murdoch being grilled by a Culture Select Committee Hearing.
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KC (KCOM) has revealed plans to bring a new 100Mbps fibre optic broadband service to 15,000 homes in Hull (Yorkshire, UK) over the next 18 months.
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