Ofcom has open an investigation into the UK telecoms industry after it found that some consumers still received higher than expected mobile, landline and or broadband ISP bills (i.e. Bill Shocks).
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The UK government has warned that the effects of Climate Change could also have a serious and damaging impact upon the country's wireless (Wi-Fi) and copper/fibre optic cable based telecommunications and internet access infrastructure.
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TalkTalk, a UK internet and phone provider with a habit of attracting service problems, is now trying to entice new customers by offering 12 months of broadband for half the usual monthly price.
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Inkspotwifi has proposed a new plan that would see wireless (Wi-Fi) broadband internet access points being installed on street lights in the UK county of Lincolnshire.
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Vispa, a UK based internet provider, has launched its new Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) service for businesses that have outgrown traditional broadband. The product is available to almost all of the country.
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TalkTalk, a UK based consumer broadband ISP, has launched a new internet security product called HomeSafe that acts as a network level security service to keep all of your online devices safe from bad websites. However the service has also caused anger among privacy campaigners for its stalking of users website visits.
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UK ISP O2 has launched a new range of business broadband packages for those with fixed home telephone lines. Existing mobile customers will also benefit from a 5 pound discount on the monthly price.
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The latest ISPreview.co.uk survey has discovered that most UK consumers' are aware of the standard migration process for changing broadband ISP, yet the majority of them (63 Percent) are being discouraged from using it because of penalty charges (exit fees) and the fear of service downtime.
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A community interest company (CIC), NextGenUs (Fibrestream), has today revealed plans to invest GBP10 Million in rolling out superfast fibre optic broadband internet access services to 10,000 homes and businesses in remote rural communities around the UK.
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A federal judge in the USA has prevented Rights Holders from using unreliable Internet Protocol (IP) address based evidence in an "illegal" file sharing case against a broadband ISP.
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TalkTalk, a UK internet access and phone provider, has been hit by a major service outage today that has taken its primary website and member account administration services offline.
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BT has launched a range of new offers on its superfast 40Mbps next generation broadband packages (BT-Infinity), which now include the first 3 months of service for free. However, these deals are only available when bundled alongside BT's line rental and cheaper phone call services.
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BT is recruiting approximately 200 ex-Armed Forces (military) personnel to help deploy the next generation of its superfast fibre optic broadband internet access services around the UK.
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The UK public sector controlled ISP, NYnet, has confirmed the launch of its new GBP30m project to make superfast broadband internet access services available to 12,000 businesses and 500,000 residents in North Yorkshire.
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Scottish Widows has slammed the "worrying trend" of broadband internet access being seen as a more "essential" service by UK adults than critical illness and life insurance.
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Consumer ISP PlusNet UK has today launched a new value-added extra called 'Plusnet Pro', which offers internet 'traffic prioritisation' services to its existing broadband subscribers and for a small additional monthly cost (GBP5).
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ABI Research claims that the world will be home to 16 million next generation LTE (4G) Mobile Broadband subscribers by the end of 2011.
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The boss of a small UK community network specialist, Fibrestream, has accused BT of replacing stolen copper cable with an inferior substitute that delivers slower broadband internet speeds. BT has strongly denied the claim.
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Efforts to restart work on Bournemouth City's 100Mbps superfast fibre optic (FTTH) broadband ISP network look increasingly uncertain after the local council admitted that it still didn't know when the work would resume.
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The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, expects that it will be forced to intervene in an on-going telecoms industry dispute and set the prices for access to BT's national network of telegraph poles and cable ducts itself.
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