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[ Written by Francis | 21 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

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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[ Written by Francis | 7 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

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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[ Written by Francis | 6 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

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 …

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[ Written by Francis | 3 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

Mobile broadband provider and telecoms giant 3 have become the second in their industry in the UK to remove the word unlimited from their promotional material and website when promoting packages that have an obvious data limit prescribed to them. O2 was the first company …

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[ Written by Francis | 1 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

If you haven?t heard of communication and internet provider Viatel it?s probably because they provide business rather than residential connections. This week, the ISP has questioned just how the government intends to be able to make superfast broadband a reality without the now scrapped broadband …