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TalkTalk Joins the Pirate Bay Blockade With a Delightful Message From the BPI
TalkTalk customers have already got a lot to complain about, but the network has just added to them. The thing is, it’s not really TalkTalk’s fault; a court order sealed TPB’s fate, and the network...
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BT Whacks the Final Nail Into the Pirate Bay’s ISP Blockade Coffin
The last remaining UK ISP court ordered to cut all lines to thepiratebay.se has set up its futile blockade. BT’s finally joined Sky, TalkTalk, O2, Orange, and Virgin in the BPI-championed action...
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Your Crappy Broadband Speed Might Actually Be Your Fault After All
Apparently a little bit of home maintenance goes a long way when it comes to broadband speeds. Your dodgy wiring, interference, and even your crummy router might be crippling your broadband by up to...
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Your Broadband Buggered too? BT’s Having Issues
Looks like Natwest isn’t the only one having issues today — BT’s broadband network seems to be screwed in London, the South East and other areas including Glasgow, after it was totalled by a “massive...
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London Minicab Firm Installs Wi-Fi in 300 Cars; Makes Leaving Your Phone in...
London-based eco-friendly minicab company Greentomatocars is claiming to be the first fleet of cabs to offer full Wi-Fi to its passengers, with its 300-strong fleet all now offering a 7.2Mbps 3G...
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BT’s Broadband Is Borked Again
For the second time in a month, BT’s broadband service has gone tits-up, taking out the internet for anyone connecting through its ISP in London and the surrounding areas. We don’t know what caused it...
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Norwich Cathedral Turned Into Massive Broadband Router
Broadband out in the sticks has always been a bit of a sticky problem: the infrastructure’s expensive, but residents aren’t always willing to pony up way over the odds for a bit of iPlayer. Now,...
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Wales to Join the 21st Century With Massive £425m Internet Pipe Fattening Scheme
People of Wales! Your time has come. BT has emerged as the very unsurprising victor in the not-really-a-battle to wire up Wales to the proper internet of the future, with some £425m set to be pumped...
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The UK’s Great Broadband Rip-Off
You’d think that with streaming taking off in a big way, everyone would already be on unlimited deals, but it seems not. Apparently over two-million of us Brits are forking out up to £40 in overage...
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Average Broadband Speed in the UK is Now Up to a Whopping 9Mbps
According to Ofcom, the average UK broadband speed is now 9Mbps, marking a 150 per cent increase in speeds since the regulator started measuring speeds back in 2010 making our downloads a helluva lot...
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UK to Have Superfastest Broadband in Europe by 2015, Says Hopeful Minister
The UK’s roll-out of “superfast” broadband will see us boasting of having the fastest broadband in all of Europe in 2015, as the next-gen fibre cabinets boost our averages to unprecedented levels....
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BT Shamefully Bumping Up its Rural Broadband Costs to Profit From Subsidies?
A rather shocking leaked document from next-gen broadband delivery agency BDUK claims BT’s been fiddling the figures, with the national network needlessly boosting its fibre installation costs to help...
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The First Borough-Wide UK 4G Network Goes Live In Swindon Today
Yes, that’s right, Swindon has beat the rest of us in the UK to the 4G punch, and launched its own 4G network that goes live today for punters across the borough. Fired into the ether by UK Broadband,...
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Having Doubled Your Speed, Virgin Kicks Off Its Free 120Mbit Broadband Boost
Good news for those with Virgin’s blazing 100Mbit broadband; after doubling everyone’s speed for free, meaning 50Mbiters already got upgraded to 100Mbps, the cable company has just started bumping you...
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Kim Dotcom’s Piracy Network Could Help Fund Free New Zealand Broadband
Troubled internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to help install a new undersea cable linking the US and his adopted country of New Zealand, which would be paid for in part by his new piracy venture...
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UK Researchers Hope to Make 20 Gigabit Home Broadband Possible
Today’s “superfast” broadband speeds might well be rather impressive, but they may soon be obliterated by new developments with could see 20 and even 40 gigabit connections offered through today’s...
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UK Broadband Speeds are a Mess, With the Fastest Street Connections 500 Times...
A survey of broadband speeds across the UK has found some enormous differences in average speed, with average street connection speeds varying from just 0.13mbps all the way up to a whopping 70.9mbps....
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Your Virgin Broadband Struggling With Streaming? Blame Unnamed ‘Third-Party...
Many customers have found that the promised Usain Bolt-like performance of Virgin broadband has actually been distinctly James Corden-like in the real world. Over the last few weeks, some customers...
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BT Trials Cable-Meltingly Fast Broadband
Hold on to your hats everyone, we have liftoff. British Telecom’s just unveiled a proof-of-concept network, here in the sunny UK no less, that’s running at 10Gbps. Yeah, that’s right. Broadband at 10...
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George Osborne Decides Smaller Cities Get to Feel the High-Speed Broadband...
Our illustrious chancellor George Osborne is a man of the people. Honest. In his mini-budget speech today, he announced a whole raft of new, smaller cities that’ll finally get to experience that...
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