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• 31 May 2012

• News: iPad ensures strong BBC iPlayer growth

  The BBC has said strong iPlayer growth is thanks largely to Apple's iPad tablet.

• 30 May 2012

• News: Verizon boosting FiOS top speed to 300Mbps

  Verizon Communications is putting the pedal to the metal on its FiOS service with a new 300Mbps option next month, offering a majority of its customers a wild Internet ride, though it hasn't said how much that ride will cost.

• News: Cisco: Global 'Net traffic to surpass 1 zettabyte in 2016

  Global Internet Protocol traffic will reach an annual rate of 1.3 zettabytes in 2016 as more people connect more devices and download more video over the Internet, Cisco Systems predicted Wednesday.

• 28 May 2012

• News: Few willing to pay more than £30 for 100Mbps broadband

  Recent poll reveals that people aren't prepapered to pay much for superfast broadband in the UK.

• 24 May 2012

• News: Broadband Stimulus Grants Seen as Political Flashpoint

  Lawrence Strickling, the lead administrator of the agency doling out stimulus money for broadband deployments, urges grant recipients to amplify success stories as program faces political persecution in election season.

• News: Research Universities Secure $200M for Community Broadband

  Plan to bring ultra-fast gigabit broadband to universities and surrounding communities moves forward with partnership between Gig.U consortium and Gigabit Squared.

• 23 May 2012

• News: Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project

  An Ohio startup company has raised US$200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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