A UK mobile operator, O2, has become the first in the country to use the 900MHz spectrum band for 3G data (Mobile Broadband) service. The frequency had previously only been used for voice (2G) services.
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The BBC, a national UK television broadcaster and content producer, has revealed that demand for its broadband internet TV service ( iPlayer ) has grown by a massive 81% since last year.
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The Welsh Affairs Select Committee has launched an inquiry into the state of broadband internet access provision in Wales, which follows concern that the country was being left behind other parts of the UK.
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The tiny rural English (UK) county of Rutland looks set to benefit from a major new superfast broadband ISP network after the local council announced plans for a new GBP1.6m development scheme.
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CharityTalk has launched a strange new broadband ISP and phone bundle for UK businesses, which includes cheaper electricity from energy provider Dual Energy.
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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has been drafted in by the UK government to help the Broadband Stakeholder Group adjust its new broadband ISP traffic management transparency code to respect Net Neutrality (the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal).
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BT Openreach has once again reiterated its ambition to reach 90% of the UK with superfast broadband ISP products by match-funding with the governments £830m budget until 2017.
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Cable giant Virgin Media UK has launched a new promotional campaign with the launch of its new private members-only club and event space in London ('Our House').
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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that 40% of broadband ISP customers with wireless (Wi-Fi) networks at home don't know how to change their security settings and could thus be leaving themselves open to criminal abuse.
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The United Kingdom's (UK) largest cable operator, Virgin Media, has announced that its new ultrafast 100Mbps broadband internet access service (ISP) can now reach 1 Million homes.
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Ralli, a UK law firm, have said that they do not expect ACS:Law to be joined by the associated copyright holders in today's London Court hearing over allegations of internet copyright infringement by broadband isp customers. The move would mark an official discontinuation of the controversial case.
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TalkTalk, a UK internet and phone provider, have launched a new add-on (200 Mobile Minutes Boost) that gives existing customers 200 monthly minutes of calls to UK mobile numbers from a TalkTalk landline at anytime.
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A UK business ISP, Powernet, has today launched a new broadband VoIP product (ViBE) that claims to cut latency and allow at least 60 concurrent business quality calls over an average UK ADSL internet access link.
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Microsoft has officially released its new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) website browser to the public, including fast hardware accelerated rending, improved security, a new slimed down user interface and better standards compliancy.
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BT has appointed a new CEO, Olivia Garfield, to head up its BTOpenreach division, which is responsible for ensuring that all rival UK ISPs have equality of access to the local BT network. Ex-CEO Steve Robertson will leave to pursue pastures new.
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Satellite ISP Avanti Communications UK has today announced the commercial launch of its new 10Mbps capable HYLAS 1 rural broadband spacecraft, which was launched at the end of last year. The first customer is expected to be connected next week.
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The UK Internet Watch Foundation reports that it can now work with broadband ISPs to have child sexual abuse content removed from the internet approximately twice as fast as it could one year one. However a debate still rages over whether their method actually works.
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Broadband internet access providers (ISP) in the UK have given an overwhelmingly positive response to news of a new Voluntary Code of Practice on the transparency of broadband ISP Traffic Management restrictions, which hopes to kill off fears about Net Neutrality (the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal) abuses.
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The latest ISPreview.co.uk survey has discovered that most UK consumers' would be happy to have superfast broadband internet access, if only they could get it and for the right price.
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Seven of the UK's largest broadband ISPs and mobile operators have today announced the launch of a new code of practice for Traffic Management transparency. The code aims to ensure that customers are properly informed about any restrictions to their internet access services.
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