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ISPs
Tesco’ll Flog You ‘Unlimited’ Broadband for Just £2 a Month

Firing its first salvo into the broadband price war, Tesco's carved the arse out of its broadband fees, bringing them all the way down to just £2 a month for 12 months. Even better, if you're a Tesco Mobile customer, you can bag the same for absolutely free, well, plus line rental. Read More >>

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BT’s Going For Sky’s Jugular With Free BT Sport For All BT Broadband Customers

It seems BT's on a Sky-seeking rampage. It's announced that BT Sport, which will have live Premiership Rugby, live Premier League Football, UFC, Moto GP, and Red Bull TV among others, will be available free to BT Broadband or Infinity customers. Read More >>

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ISPs
Buy Anything With an Internet Connection and Get Free Broadband For Six Months

Did you know John Lewis did broadband? No, neither did the rest of the planet. And that's why if you buy anything with an internet connection -- be it a printer, tablet or laptop -- the department store will gift you six-whole-months of free broadband. Read More >>

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Virgin’s Insanely Complicated New Traffic Management Shows What’s Wrong With ISPs

Virgin isn't exactly a student of laissez-faire broadband, instead choosing to actively 'traffic-manage' its customers. It's just rolled out a new system of traffic management, and whilst it leads to some theoretically marginal improvements for consumers, it's the most complicated sonofabitch you're ever gonna see. But more than that, it's a demonstration of how out-of-touch some ISPs really are. Read More >>

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ISPs
Sky Just Bought O2 and BE Broadband to Totally Leapfrog Virgin

Sky's just made a massive power-play for the UK's broadband market. Not content with being a middling player, it's just bought both O2 and BE Broadband, propelling it into second place in the UK broadband rankings, with 4.7 million subscribers, and leapfrogging Virgin Media. Read More >>

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ISPs
British Farmers Install Their Own 1Gbps Fibre Network in the Middle of Nowhere

Next time you whinge about your slow-arse internet, spare a thought for a bunch of British farmers who have had to build, test, and install their own fibre network this year — from scratch. Read More >>

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ISPs
US Media Giant Buying Virgin Media as Birthday Present to Self

US billionaire John Malone, head of international cable TV company Liberty Global, is looking to buy Virgin Media. The now-profitable TV and broadband company is said to be valued at around the £15bn mark. Read More >>

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ISPs
BT Says There Is No Broadband Bandwidth Problem and Dumps Its Data Caps

Here's an interesting move from BT. While most others are complaining there's an issue with the amount of data we're all rapidly consuming, enforcing traffic shaping and data caps on us, BT says there is no problem, and its put its money where its mouth is. Now you can get "Totally Unlimited" broadband even on the cheaper end -- no data caps to be seen. Read More >>

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ISPs
Your Sky Broadband Utter Crap? It’s Because Sky Got Too Greedy

Your Sky "broadband" reduced to a snail's pace recently? You're not the only one -- Sky's been forced to admit that it's totally over-sold its broadband in quite a few areas of Britain, meaning far too many of us are trying to force data down the pipes, basically reducing everything to a crawl. Read More >>

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George Osborne Decides Smaller Cities Get to Feel the High-Speed Broadband Love Too

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 super-fast broadband that us city mice already know and love, proving once and for all that he cares about things outside London and his country estate. Read More >>

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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 freaking gigabits per second -- internet so fast it's just plain pointless. Read More >>

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ISPs
Your Virgin Broadband Struggling With Streaming? Blame Unnamed ‘Third-Party Peering Network’

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 have been complaining that a crippled network has allegedly rendered browsing stalwarts such as streaming 240p video on YouTube an impossible, stuttering mess. Read More >>

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internet
UK Broadband Speeds are a Mess, With the Fastest Street Connections 500 Times Quicker than the Slowest

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. Read More >>

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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 fibre connections. Read More >>

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piracy
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 Me.ga -- and could eventually subsidise broadband for New Zealanders. Read More >>