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Virgin Media Business Launches 10Gbps Service

Virgin Business Media is looking to assist businesses dealing with large data loads with the launch of a faster high-capacity service

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Union Gets O2 Pay Offer, And Seals BT Deal

The CWU has won a deal for O2 staff, while BT staff have accepted a union-negotiated offer

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Google Criticised Over Verizon Net Neutrality Plan

Strand Consult has offered an analysis of the net neutrality proposal that Google and Verizon have proposed to the FCC

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Inmarsat Pushes Ahead With Satellite Broadband Plans

Providing broadband via satellite is becoming an increasingly viable way to provide access to remote areas

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Microsoft And Polycom Launch UC Partnership

Microsoft and Polycom are entering an alliance that will include jointly developing, selling and marketing unified communications products

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Mobile Operators Struggle With Data Overload

Smartphones are growing, but mobile operators are struggling to deal with the demand on their networks

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Skype Looks To Raise £63 Million With IPO

Skype is looking to raise as much as $100 million (£63m) on the stock market after the VoIP provider filed to go public

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Clearwire Begins LTE Trials In Arizona

Another sign that LTE is on the way after US wireless operator Clearwire announced plans to conduct tests of its LTE 4G network in Phoenix

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VoIP Provider Vonage Gives Facebook A Voice

Vonage introduces an app that lets Facebook friends place free calls to each other over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G networks on their smartphones

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BT Reprimanded Over Fibre Advert Claims

Another communications provider is in trouble with the advertising regulator, after BT boasted that its fibre-based service could deliver the Internet 'instantly'

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Eutelsat Satellite To Bridge Broadband Digital Divide

The KA-SAT satellite is being developed for Eutelsat to provide faster broadband services to the digitally deprived

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Ten Reasons Firefox Is Losing To Internet Explorer

Mozilla’s Firefox might be celebrated as a fine browser by some, but without the right moves it will lose out to bigger and better alternatives

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Lane Fox: Funding Shortfall No Barrier To Online Push

Britain's digital champion has no government funding to get the rest of Britain online, but she's determined to push ahead with plans anyway

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One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

One year after it started shipping its Unified Computing System, Cisco has about 1,000 enterprise customers - with a lot more in the pipeline

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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

According to a survey by TheInfoPro, spending on servers will continue to be slow in 2010

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Mobile To Swamp Fixed Broadband, Warn Analysts

The growth of mobile broadband will massively outstrip the growth of fixed broadband by the end of 2015, says analyst group

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Ofcom Faces Backlash For Broadband Criticism

Some ISPs are manipulating broadband figures, but ultimately it is all about the timetable for migrating to fibre, experts claim

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UK And India Launch ICT Innovation Programme

The government has announced a bilateral trade agreement between the UK and Indian ICT industries to encourage innovation and investment

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Briton Holds Key To ‘Rebooting The Internet’

A Briton is one of only seven trusted people around the world to be given the power to "reboot the Internet"

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Intel Shows Off 50Gbps Optical Interconnect

Intel has created a prototype of an interconnect that uses light instead of copper, and that can transfer data at speeds of up to 50Gbps

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Government Confirms Long-Awaited Spectrum Auction

The government has announced a radio spectrum auction for next year, in a move that could prompt the introduction of next-generation mobile broadband

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Virgin Media Trials Broadband Via Electricity Poles

Virgin Media continues to trial new ways of delivering superfast broadband to rural areas, as it begins a fibre trial via electricity poles

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Europe To Get 100 Million Smart Meters By 2014

The UK, France and Spain will be the next countries to deploy meters in large numbers, according to analysts

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Ofcom Slams ISPs For Misleading Broadband Speeds

Copper is not as efficient as fibre when it comes to delivering advertised broadband speeds, the regulator claims

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Google Voice Adds Speedy Calls on Android, BlackBerry

In an effort to accelerate calls, Google has added direct access numbers to its Google Voice for mobile application on Android and Blackberry smartphones