Broadband News

November 2008

Broadband News Archive

Instant news and sport boost mobile phone internet use (28-11-08)

- Instant news, sport and weather reports are fuelling the growth of mobile phone internet services.
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BBC’s live streaming: don't get caught by broadband charges (27-11-08)

- A high-speed internet connection and hefty download limit are needed to watch live streaming without incurring penalties, consumers warned.
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Consumers favour websites for broadband advice (26-11-08)

- Websites have taken over as the main source of advice about broadband services, according to data from Ofcom.
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Complaints soar about silent calls (25-11-08)

- Silent calls and the mis-selling of land lines are the biggest source of complaints to communications regulator Ofcom.
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Broadband dominates with almost 95% of internet connections (24-11-08)

- The UK's love affair with broadband continues to rise on the back of easy availability and attractive pricing. By contrast, old dial-up technology is being shunned.
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Mobile broadband: T-Mobile unleashes shared router (21-11-08)

- New mobile broadband customers with T-mobile will receive a free wireless router. The “share dock” enables up to three people to use one mobile internet connection at a time.
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Broadband Britain (20-11-08)

- Internet users in the UK spend an average of 14 hours a week online - more than every other country in Europe.
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Virgin Media boosts its ADSL broadband (19-11-08)

Virgin Media has announced a new 16Mb product for customers on its National broadband ADSL services.
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Ten spam messages a day (18-11-08)

The average Brit receives almost 400 spam email and text messages a month according to new research.
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O2 defies broadband slowdown (17-11-08)

Despite the broadband slowdown, O2 has managed to add more than 70,000 new customers over the last three months.
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Two months free with Virgin Media this Christmas (14-11-08)

Cable provider Virgin Media is offering new customers two months free TV, home phone and broadband this Christmas.
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Broadband boosts from TalkTalk (13-11-08)

TalkTalk has announced a new flexible broadband package to be launched next week.
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Easynet trials 40Mb copper wire broadband (12-11-08)

Broadband provider Easynet Connect has announced that it will begin offering speeds of up to 40Mb over existing copper wire networks.
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Support is most important for small businesses (11-11-08)

More than 70 per cent of small and medium enterprises (SME's) would switch to a new provider if their connection became unreliable, according to new research.
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Next generation broadband could be a ‘patchwork’ of networks (10-11-08)

The next generation of broadband networks will be vastly different to the one we currently have according to Francesco Caio, one of the chief Government advisors on super fast broadband.
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