Mobile operator O2 UK has increased its network investment by 25% for 2011 and announced that part of the new cash will go on a major LTE capable Mobile Broadband network upgrade from Nokia Siemens Networks.
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The UK government has awarded GBP7.2 million to help fund the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) and its 'Photonics HyperHighway' project, which aims to make broadband internet access over fibre optic cable 100 times faster.
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An independent London barrister has described new UK government legislation to help rights holders and ISPs split the cost of fighting internet piracy as both "misdrafted" and "unlawful".
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Several UK ISPs have discussed following the example of Bahnhof in Sweden, which recently decided to make all of its customers anonymous by sticking their internet surfing activity behind an encrypted VPN connection. But will it work?
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Mobile operator T-Mobile UK are offering their pay monthly "
Unlimited browsing" Mobile Broadband package, which includes a FREE USB Modem and runs off an 18 month contract, for just GBP10.21 per month.
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Business ISP
Virgin Media Business has taken the wraps off their new GBP200m superfast fibre optic broadband network in London, which will provide 10Mbps to 10Gbps internet services to thousands of schools.
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The European Digital Rights group has released a scathing new report into the increasing tendency of governments to force internet providers (ISP) into blocking websites that contain offensive content. Often without fully realising that the methods don't actually work.
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The UK budget broadband and phone ISP , TalkTalk , has slashed its minimum contract terms from 18 to 12 months and extended their half price bundle promotions until the end of January 2011.
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The UK TalkTalk Group has announced a major restructuring of its broadband ISP business, which should simplify its operations but will also result in the loss of 580 jobs out of its 4,500 heavy workforce.
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BSkyB UK ( Sky Broadband ) has topped 3,006,000 broadband ISP subscribers and announced the launch of Sky Anywhere, which will use its recent acquisition, The Cloud, to help deliver its content via 5,000 public Wi-Fi Hotspots around the country.
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The UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reports that, out of a world population of 6.8 Billion people, some 2.08 Billion now have internet access (end of 2010).
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The UK Advertising Authority has today set out their new proposals for clearer broadband ISP advertising of internet connection speeds and "unlimited" usage allowances with Fair Usage Policies (FUP).
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Consultancy firm IDATE predicts that world mobile internet penetration ( i.e. Mobile Broadband ) will grow to reach 37% - or 2.67 Billion users - by 2015.
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Consumer ISP PlusNet UK has announced the imminent launch of its commercial 40Mbps next generation FTTC broadband beta trial service - PlusNet Fibre. It has even offered up some of the first price details.
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Herefordshire ISP Allpay Broadband has confirmed that more than a dozen rural west midlands UK villages are to be blessed with superfast broadband connections over the next 6 months after the official launch of the country's first Broadband Licence for Churches.
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The UK Advertising Authority has upheld a complaint against a bus poster advert for PlusNet UK's broadband service. Unfortunately the small print at the bottom was deemed to be illegible.
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Broadband ISP O2 has today announced that it intends to build its own FREE public Wi-Fi (Wireless Broadband) Hotspots ('O2 Wifi') in the UK, with work starting immediately and completing in 2013.
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TFL-Group, a Wales (UK) focused fixed wireless broadband ISP, has assisted one of Pembrokeshire's oldest internet 'notspots', St Davids, get connected to the digital age.
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A UK based fibre optic network operator, FibreSpeed, has given one of its Welsh partners, Carrier Wales, their official broadband Internet Service Provider of the Year 2010 award.
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A new study has found that just 100 broadband ISP users are responsible for publishing most (66 Percent) of all the "illegal" copyright content (music, movies and games etc.) on public P2P file sharing networks. The study identified several ISPs as unwittingly supporting them, including one UK provider ( Virgin Media ).
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