Articles in the Broadband News Category
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Zen Broadband has followed many other providers in the UK in offering their own phone line rental alongside their broadband service. The service will offer two packages called Home Talk for ?10.99 a month and Business Talk for ?13.49 a month. Unfortunately the service doesn?t …
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With Ofcom continuing its investigation into how broadband providers should be selling connections and the differences between actual speed and what?s advertised, there?s been an assumption that many UK net users don?t actually know the difference about the two speeds, or that they aren?t even …
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Some people in the UK might be struggling to achieve even 2 Mbps broadband speeds from their fixed line connections, but many people travelling across the world on planes and ships may soon be able to enjoy speeds of up to 50 Mbps thanks to …
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Despite several different laws being passed over the last 10 years or so, there’s still a lot of confusion in the broadband market. The increased competition has led to many ISPs trying to make their ‘advertised’ price as low as possible, while trying to make …
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It has been decided by Ofcom that BT’s £9 billion deficit on pensions won’t be taken into account when they are decided the regulated charges for wholesale broadband for providers. Had Ofcom moved in the other direction, we could have seen a rise in the …
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Research Firm ABI Research has released reports that telecoms companies around the world are taking advantage of the new LTE technology, which will give mobile broadband technology a significant step up in terms of usability and speed. Across the world there are now 132 networks …
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The yearly internet industry awards run by the UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has announced its winners this week following an event at the Grosvenor Marriott Hotel. The best fixed line consumer ISP award was awarded to Be Broadband who are owned by O2. …
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There’s already a number of different initiatives in place to get Britain online, but one of the more bold claims has been made today by Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s Digital Inclusion Champion and head of online initiative Race Online 2012. Today, the initiative changed …
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We covered Phorm a lot last year when the company was in the spotlights for making a deal with ISP BT to trial advertising software on their network without the knowledge of their customers. The Phorm technology was used to gather information on a user’s …
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BT is currently in the process of being next generation broadband to many parts of the UK using Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) technology, which uses fibre optic cables from the exchange directly to the street cabinets, which can then distribute the internet over traditional …

