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Government Opens ‘Super-Connected Cities’ Competition
Ten cities, including Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow, are eligible to compete for high-speed broadband funding, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Councils Must Submit Broadband Funding Bids By February
English councils have until February to submit proposals to receive rural broadband funding
Sky Blocks Newzbin2 After Court Order
Sky says it blocked file-sharing site Newzbin2 to protect copyright holders and consumers
BT Adds Another 178 Exchanges To Fibre Rollout
BT has revealed the latest tranche of telephone exchanges in the UK that will be fibre enabled
Lobby Group Slams Rural Broadband Rollout Hitch
The Countryside Alliance has hit out at the lack of progress made in rolling out rural broadband
Virgin Launches Flat Fee VPN Offering
Big Red VPN offers business fixed rate payment terms and unconstrained bandwidth
100Gbps Trans-Atlantic Link For NY, Ireland, Iceland
Emerald Express shaves milliseconds off trans-Atlantic latency, and links to Icelandic data centres
Osborne Plans Open Data and Connected Cities
George Osborne's Autumn statement launched an open data project, and promised connected cities
Orange Complaints Double, Says Ofcom Report
Fixed broadband satisfaction is lower than mobile, and TalkTalk comes bottom
Ofcom Will Act To Regulate Net Neutrality
ISPs can use traffic management, but they have to make it clear to users how they will be affected otherwise Ofcom will intervene
Onion Anonymous Internet Uses Amazon Cloud
Users of the Tor anonymous project can give back to the community by bridging to Amazon's cloud
Scottish Broadband Plan Gets £5m Funding Boost
The Scottish Government has allocated £5m to kickstart rural superfast broadband
Geo Lashes Out At BT And Quits Broadband Scheme
Geo has announced it is “reluctantly” quitting BDUK, as Fujitsu successfully completes a trial using BT's ducting
UK Broadband Speeds Drop By Third At Peak Times
Connection speeds drop by 35 percent in the evening thanks to TV streaming, says uSwitch
Europe Likely To Miss Broadband Targets
Europe might not get there, but the UK seems strangely complacent about broadband delivery before 2015
Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Asked To Block Newzbin2
Three more ISPs have been asked by the MPA to block illegal file-sharing site Newzbin2
Virgin’s 100Mbps Broadband Reaches 20m Brits
Virgin's superfast broadband network is now available to 20 million people in Britain - or a third of the population
Internet Traffic In The UK Increases Seven-fold
A report by Ofcom shows an increase in Internet traffic and has revealed the extent of the UK's mobile coverage
BT Accelerates Fibre Broadband Rollout
BT is to bring forward its fibre broadband targets by a year, hiring hundreds more engineers
Super-fast Broadband Comes to Cornwall
Super-fast broadband will arrive in parts of Cornwall three months ahead of schedule
UK Internet Speeds Disappoint As UN Sets Challenge
An Akamai broadband report reveals poor rankings for the UK, as the UN Broadband Commission sets targets
EU Confirms Plans For Huge Broadband Investment
The European Commission has confirmed plans to pump billions into broadband projects across the region
Rats Cause Virgin Broadband Outage In Scotland
Some Virgin Media customers in Scotland were briefly left without broadband when rats chewed cables
BT Broadband Suffers UK-Wide Outage
A power outage at a BT exchange in Birmingham has left consumers and businesses with no web access
Carry On Lying In Broadband Adverts, ASA Tells ISPs
ISPs can mislead users by advertising broadband speeds that are only available to a few, in new ASA rules
EC To Study Europe-Wide Broadband Speeds
The EC is to carry out EU-wide broadband tests following disappointing results from an Ofcom probe
Ghana To Lead LTE Deployment In Africa
Ghana could be the first country in Africa to get 4G mobile technology, and Alcatel Lucent is eager to get on board
TalkTalk And 3UK Top Ofcom List Of Shame
TalkTalk and 3UK are still attracting more complaints to Ofcom than other telecoms companies
TalkTalk Boss Slams BT Fibre ‘Monopoly’
Government support could give BT a monopoly, warns TalkTalk boss