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porn
UK ISPs Enforcing “Opt-in” Porn Filtering From the End of the Year

The on-off, up-down, will-they-won't-they issue of porn filtering looks like it's about to come to some sort of (throbbing) head, with the latest government plan being to require an on-by-default porn filter across all ISPs from the end of 2013. You'll have to ask if you want it. Hopefully not in person. Read More >>

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piracy
UK ISPs Now Secretly Blocking Pirate Bay Proxies Without Court Approval

The official public list of blacklisted torrent sites is rather short, but it would appear to be secretly growing thanks to ISPs adding some Pirate Bay proxy sites to the banned list without being forced to do so by the courts. Read More >>

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ISPs
EU to Ban ISP Throttling and Site Blocking as Part of Cross-European Net Neutrality Laws

European vice president Neelie Kroes is looking to block some of the more anti-competitive practices carried out by ISPs, thanks to a proposed EU-wide net neutrality law that would stop ISPs limiting bandwidth used by troublesome or competitive apps and services. Read More >>

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networks
O2 Dumps BT Wi-Fi, Losing You Access From July 1st

Are you an O2 customer? Do you regularly access BT's millions of Wi-Fi hotspots? No? Good, because you're about to lose your free access to them. The network's four-year deal with BT is up and it hasn't renewed. Instead, it's going it alone with its own O2 Wi-Fi network. Read More >>

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ISPs
Big Changes Coming for BT Users as ISP Dumps Yahoo Email

Those of you who defy fashion and stick with good old BT for your internet and email services will soon witness a massive change to its web mail system, thanks to a move to dump Yahoo as its email provider. Read More >>

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transport
Now You Can Grab Free Wi-Fi at Heathrow Airport

Off on your summer holidays and flying from Heathrow soon? Good news then, as the airport has announced that it's coughed up to give everyone 45 minutes of free Wi-Fi before boarding. Considering some parts of it are a mobile signal dead zone, Wi-Fi could come in handy for keeping you entertained with Top Gear or something while you wait for that forever-delayed plane. [Twitter] Read More >>

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xbox one
BT Wants to Pump Its New Sports Channels Onto the Xbox One

It seems the Xbox One sparked a twinkle in BT's eye when Microsoft got up and started talking up all of its TV features. According to a BT spokesperson talking to TechRadar, the ISP wants to launch its free BT Sport onto the incoming console, which could mean all those fancy TV streaming features might actually make it to the UK in one guise or another. Read More >>

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ISPs
£50m Says You Might Get Hyperoptic’s Gigabit Internet in a Year or Five

Niche ISP Hyperoptic, which does pretty well for itself from wiring up blocks of flats with  FTTH links that provide internet speeds hitting the 1Gbps dream speed, has secured £50m in cash to help spread its super-superfast internet dream across the more densely populated bits of the UK. Read More >>

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ISPs
Sky Gives Virgin Media £49m to Patch up its Groaning Broadband Network

Bizarre news from the cut-throat world of ISPs sees two deadly rivals teaming up for the betterment of the nation, with Sky asking Virgin Media for help shoring up its broadband and beating the capacity issues that have been dogging it for some time. Read More >>

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dealzmodo
Free Sky TV and Broadband Is Your “Please Don’t Leave Us” Deal of the Day

Sky has recently snapped up O2's broadband service and is in the process of amalgamating everything together -- and if you're a current O2 customer, you could cop for a nice little bonus as a result. Read More >>

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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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internet
Report: It’s Easy to Make Fibre Broadband Twice as Fast

Getting bummed 'cos you're only getting 80Mbps on your fibre-optic broadband line? Well, there's no need to do a Hyundai yet, because researchers reckon that we're only using around half of fibre's capacity at the moment, leaving a whole 'nother chunk of bandwidth ready for the advent of 4K 'movies'. Read More >>

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sports
Manchester City Packs Stadium With Wi-Fi For Instant Replays

Manchester City might not have won the league, but at least it'll have a whole stadium filled with Cisco's "intelligent high-density Wi-Fi" for fans to stream things like instant replays or tweet their frustration with some overpaid diving twerp. Could be awesome for action replays -- the best of TV brought directly into the stadium on your phone? [TNW] Read More >>

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internet
Syria Is Completely Cut Off from the Internet Again

As the country has done before, Syria cut off the Internet for all its citizens yesterday. As in all Internet access has completely disappeared. Google's Transparency Report, which shows traffic to Google, reveals that Syria pretty much no longer exists on the Internet. Read More >>

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ISPs
TalkTalk Wants Nanny Ofcom to Put BT on the Naughty Step

Ofcom has agreed to deeply and thoroughly probe BT's business practices, following complaints from TalkTalk that BT's been a naughty boy, charging third-party ISPs more than it should for access to their high-speed fibre-optic network. Read More >>