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it's an internet thing! est 1999
High speed broadband isn’t necessarily something that you notice, unless, that is, you don’t have it.
Since computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990, we have become more dependent on it.
Around 50% of internet users in Shropshire get download speeds that are only half as fast in Telford.
Abdon Avenue in Birmingham has the fastest average broadband speeds in the UK, a recent study claims.
EE signs deal with OnePlus in a bid for UK’s first 5G coverage.
North Yorkshire County Council to carry out an investigation if BTOpenreach fails to deliver minimum speeds under the Superfast North Yorkshire scheme
TalkTalk and Infracapital have reached an impasse after months of talks about a new venture, multiple sources have claimed.
South Norfolk is the first rural district with 100% fast broadband.
A councillor has hit out at TalkTalk for not repairing pavements after installing new cables to boost internet speed.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has launched £1m digital funding programme.
The key to transforming social housing services is to ensure that everyone is connected, says 6G Internet founder Tahir Mohsan.
Apple, Google and the BBC join UK Council for Internet Safety executive board.
CityFibre announces £2.5 billion investment plan to bring ultra-fast broadband to 5 million homes.
Dorset County Council does more to reach and enable more residents to get the best from the digital connectivity available in the county.
Politicians, academics and business leaders to seek funding to bring faster internet speeds to the Greater Brighton area.
6G partners with Leeds City Council to trial free internet for children living below the poverty line.
EE CEO gives a closer look of the UK’s first live 5G trial.
Stockport Council teams up with a digital inclusion charity to help local residents improve their digital skills.
Vodafone and CityFibre to bring full fibre technology to Cambridge, Leeds and Southend-on-Sea.
Samsung considers creating an ecosystem where all devices can communicate with each other.
Homes and businesses in Test and Dun Valleys set to have access to faster internet following launch of Virgin Media’s pilot project in Hampshire.
Herefordshire broadband initiative secures funding to provide superfast internet to some of the hardest to reach homes and businesses in the area.
Plymouth City Council rejects proposals to install hi-tech public telephone kiosks in nine sites.
Marches and Gloucestershire Viable Clusters Broadband Project to bring superfast broadband to additional 650 homes and businesses in North Shropshire.
CityFibre to create a new centre in Leeds to usher a broadband internet advancement that will boost super-fast speeds.
6G Internet Launches Britain’s First Network with Flexible Speeds and Pricing Plans
WightFibre to bring ultrafast broadband to Isle of Wight.
Leeds City Council brings free internet access to social housing tenants to combat digital exclusion.
Councils and police halt installation of BT digital kiosks following claims they are being exploited by drug dealers.
Gigaclear shortlisted for Scotland’s £600 million Reaching 100per cent (R100) project.
Ultra fast broadband service coming to thousands of homes in Burton.
The Local Government Association urges property developers to adopt council proposals for a new FTTP that provides at least 10Mbps download speed.
UK is falling way back in the connectivity ranks, CityFibre has claimed
Gigaclear wins Best Rural Broadband provider for a second consecutive year by the Internet Service Providers’ Association.
Elmfield Road, Garton End Road and Pyecroft among the first residential streets in Peterborough to get superfast broadband.
Hull City Council approves the installation of new smart bins across the city.
Sky considers the use of augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) in answering customers’ queries and solving broadband issues.
Streaming service subscription services now have more UK subscribers than traditional TV services, Ofcom confirms.
Openreach confirms that it has successfully connected 600,000 premises since its full-fibre rollout.
Ofcom announces plans to release new 60 GHz spectrum to enable 5G use cases – particularly those that require high capacity and very low latency.
£60 million internet connectivity plan may see councils own and manage their own ducting.
The B4RN project appears to have hit a snag with Lancashire County Council hampering their UK rollout in both Caton and Halton.
Sadiq Khan reveals details on how he plans to make London the smartest city in the world.
Residents of Michaelston-y-Fedw dig 15 miles of trenches to lay their own super-fast cables.
The trade association for next generation broadband services has urged Ofcom to rethink 5G spectrum auction to ensure fairer rollout.
Herne Hill restaurant says BT’s Inlink will make their business suffer.
Virgin Media sues Durham County Council for obstructing the rollout of ultrafast broadband technology.
Proposals for 999 masts in Yorkshire Dales more likely to be finally approved after amendments.
£150 million investment in ultrafast fibre broadband ‘worth £1.2 billion to the economy’ a recent study claims.
Net neutrality to come to an end on 11th June.
98% of Telford & Wrekin Council premises now have superfast broadband access.
Gigaclear to invest a total of £8 million to bring FTTP/H broadband network to West Kent by 2020.
The installation of super-fast internet in Kent County Council will leave 30,000 properties without access to the service.
Kentmere, one of Cumbria’s remotest villages, now has access to high-speed broadband service.
Lancashire County Council to bid for rural broadband Euro-cash before Brexit.
Better Broadband for Suffolk to sign new contracts with ISPs to achieve 100% superfast broadband by the end of 2020.
Some areas in Northern Ireland have the worst broadband connectivity, Ofcom has found.
Contrary to an Ofcom report, broadband speeds in Somerset are improving, a Councillor has said.
Community Fibre secures £25 million investment to bring 1Gbps broadband to more than 500,000 premises across London by 2022.
Community Fibre doubles the speed of its broadband packages at no extra cost for both new and existing subscribers.
Superfast Staffordshire programme successfully connects 99.3% residents in Cannock Chase district.
Councillors have agreed to put pressure on broadband providers ..
The Government sets out USO, which pledges the legal right for everybody in the UK to request a 10+Mbps capable high-speed connection from 2020.
Burgess Hill secures funding for full fibre gigabit-speed broadband.
Broadband operator Hyperoptic is testing broadband speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) in a UK home using an existing ISP network.
Portsmouth wins £4 million funding to bring in fibre broadband to the city.
Digital participation programme launched at Mission place to give the elderly access to the internet.
Norfolk considers borrowing £11million to bring superfast broadband to 100% of premises as soon as possible.
Spires and towers of the Church of England to be used to boost connectivity in rural areas.
OnLincolnshire teams up with The South Ormsby Estate to deliver fast internet to one of the most rural parts of the county.
The fibre infrastructure roll-out in the UK could be improved in north west Essex, an MP has said.
Superfast wireless broadband to finally reach Southwark.
The Superfast Cymru scheme, which has brought fibre broadband to large parts of Newtown has officially ended.
The London Borough of Bexley is the latest to put in a bid to the UK government’s £200 million local full fibre gigabit broadband network.
UK ISP Community Fibre brings ultrafast fibre optic broadband network to 10,000 council homes.
Worcestershire broadband to bring fibre to the final 4% of unconnected homes in the country.
The scheme, which will be announced next week, targets 98,000 premises not included in the Superfast Cymru project.
Council sets out details for review of Aylesbury Vale Broadband ISP.
Mid Devon Council says that a broadband boost could be in the cards for rural areas across Devon.
Co-founding schemes to bring fast broadband connections to the final 4% of Worcestershire premises.
Ofcom to push through with 5G spectrum auction despite legal objections from mobile network Three.
Vodafone and CityFibre Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) programme to make Milton Keynes a leading hi-tech city.
The South Norfolk Council deploys a new 10Mbps+ capable network to parts of the region not covered by the BBfN project.
Anders Christensen, says that the sale of Aylesbury Vale Broadband network (assets) to Gigaclear is not a success story.
Suffolk’s Chamber of Commerce wants the government to deliver download speeds 10 times faster by 2020.
CityFibre to extend its Gigabit City network in Aberdeen.
BT has announced that they are to switch off ISDN services by 2025 and by 2020, it will stop selling the circuits all together.
Facebook, Google, and YouTube should to more to ensure that their content can be trusted, an Ofcom executive has said.
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Alternative voluntary industry code of practice laid out by BT, Sky and Virgin Media, falls short of what Ofcom had previously suggested.
BT have had a tumultuous start to 2017 with a number of high profile faux pas coming in short succession.
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A court order forces ISPs to block servers hosting streams of football matches.
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Sky’s TV broadband advert banned following a complaint from rival Virgin Media.
