Latest Broadband News
- 23 May 2012
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News: BT accused of making broadband monopoly
BT may have to split into two companies after being warned it is making a monopoly out of superfast broadband.
- 22 May 2012
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News: VoIP provider files net neutrality complaint with FCC
A Florida VoIP carrier has filed a net neutrality complaint against a Georgia utility and broadband provider, after the utility accused the VoIP firm of theft of service for using its network to deliver voice service without paying for it.
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News: The Cloud brings Wi-Fi to Greene King pubs
Greene King has struck a deal with The Cloud to bring Wi-Fi access to all of its pubs, restaurants and hotels.
- 21 May 2012
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News: Education group: Schools need 100 Mbps per 1,000 broadband users
Schools in the U.S. will need broadband speeds of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students and staff members by the 2014-15 school year in order to meet a growing demand for Web-based instruction and a skyrocketing number of student-owned Web devices, according to a new report by a trade group representing state education agencies.
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News: Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance
Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the company said on Monday.
- 17 May 2012
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News: BT Infinity broadband connection checker unreliable
BT’s high-speed fibre broadband service Infinity is actually more available than BT cares to boast about.
- 14 May 2012
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News: NBN service plans won't cost consumers more: Conroy
Senator Stephen Conroy has slammed Opposition leader Tony Abbott's comments that National Broadband Network (NBN) services could cost consumers more than current ADSL plans, saying Abbott was "plain wrong" "and that he should "check his facts."
- 13 May 2012
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News: UK broadband users cheated on internet speeds
UK broadband users are paying for vastly exaggerated internet speeds, with an average 7 megabits per second (Mbps) compared to their providers’ promised 12Mbps – five megabits lost between the claim and the actual usage.
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News: BT announces new UK Infinity broadband exchanges
BT has listed a bunch of new UK exchanges that can handle its 80Mbps Internet access.
- 10 May 2012
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News: 80Mbps BT broadband available for 10m in UK
BT’s 80Mbps fibre broadband service is available to ten million premises in the UK, with 300Mbps and higher speeds promised from 2013 onwards.
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News: EU votes on 16p/MB data roaming charge caps
New laws promise to bring data-roaming charges within the EU down to as low as 16p per megabyte by 2014.
- 09 May 2012
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News: Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching
Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.
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News: Virgin Media attacked after Pirate Bay block
Virgin Media has fallen victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack as a result of blocking The Pirate Bay.
- 08 May 2012
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News: O2 announces free Wi-Fi at Costa
O2 has announced it will provide free Wi-Fi internet access at Costa coffee.
- 07 May 2012
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News: Groups protest Verizon's proposed special access rate hikes
Members of the NoChokepoints Coalition will ask the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to stop Verizon Communications from raising the rates for middle-mile broadband connections that many businesses rely on.
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News: Senator questions whether Comcast is following NBC merger conditions
A U.S. senator has urged the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether Comcast is violating conditions imposed in its early 2011 merger with NBCUniversal.
- 03 May 2012
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News: UK ISPs start blocking The Pirate Bay
Broadband internet service providers (ISP) have started blocking access to The Pirate Bay.
- 02 May 2012
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News: Who needs Google Fiber? Orono, Maine, getting 1Gbps broadband network
Small-town Maine may be known best for its lobster and as the setting for several Stephen King books, but soon it could become known for its high-speed fiber network as well.
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News: UK average broadband speed drops
The average broadband speed in the UK dropped in the last quarter of 2011, according to a report.
- 30 April 2012
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News: Everything Everywhere launches 4G campaign
Everything Everywhere (EE) has launched a website campaigning for the launch of 4G mobile internet in the UK.
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