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Openreach Fibre Broadband Reaches 26.5m As BT Looks At ‘Large...

BT & Openreach make broadband and 4G gains despite accounting issues and Ofcom regulatory pressure

Vodafone To Shut Down Pager Service Over Competition Concerns

Vodafone says it makes more economic sense to shut down the pager unit rather than address competition concerns so it can sell it to Capita

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TalkTalk Prioritises Fixed Broadband Growth Over Profit For Now

TalkTalk returns to customer growth but chairman says he wants to secure more broadband customers above all else

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Dell Technologies Boosts IoT Offering With New Products And...

Dell EMC World 2017: Dell Technologies turns its focus to the Internet of Things

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BT Startup Competition Targets UK IoT Startups

BT offers support, resources and chance to commercialse IoT technology in BT Infinity Labs startup competition

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FCC Website ‘Attacked’ After John Oliver Net Neutrality...

US regulator claims website attack, hours after British comedian urges people to protest against rule change

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O2 Will Comply With EU Law And Abolish European Roaming

O2 confirms plans to let customers use their phones abroad at no extra cost across Europe, falling in line with EU roaming legislation from June 15

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Newport 5G Chip Facility Hopes To Make South Wales A Tech Hub For IoT

Welsh government invests £12m into £38m 5G compound semiconductor factory as part of bid to make South Wales a tech hub

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Virgin Media’s £3bn Project Lighting Broadband Expansion Slows...

Virgin Media results miss expectations but it expects to see more Project Lightning progress in second half of 2017

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ISPs Face Ad Crackdown Over Misleading Broadband Speed Claims

Industry free-for-all surrounding broadband speed claims about to end, as advertising watchdog issues proposals

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EE Offers Inclusive Roaming Across EU, USA, Canada & Australia

EE, like every other operator in the EU, will abolish charges across Europe and will offer inclusive roaming for North America, Australia and New Zealand

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NSA Ends Some Data Collection Amidst Privacy Row

The NSA said it will no longer collect communications by US citizens that merely mention foreign surveillance targets, in a win for online privacy

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Three Plans 1Gbps Home Broadband Service Using 3.4GHz Spectrum

Three plans to deliver fixed wireless broadband services to 40 percent of the UK population once £250m acquisition of UK Broadband

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Barts Health Trust Cancels Operations Due To IT Failure

A 'major' computer failure beginning on 20 April has led to a number of systems being inaccessible to clinical staff

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British Youth Receives Two Year Sentence For DDoS Attacks

Adam Mudd admitted to running the 'Titanium Stresser' DDoS attack tool out of his bedroom in Hertfordshire

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Vodafone Increases Prices For Out Of Contract Customers

Vodafone confirms price hikes of between 50p and £3.50

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FCC Chairman Sets Public Course for Making New Internet Regulations

ANALYSIS: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says starting a fully public rule-making process to reverse last year's decision to regulate ISPs

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Belfast Has Best UK Mobile Coverage Of Any Major UK City But...

Belfast has good mobile coverage but London, Bristol, Hull and Cardiff must do better it seems, according to RootMetrics

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Investigation Slams ‘Dreadful’ Broadband In New Homes

Working from home? Best not do it in a new home then, as investigation reveals 'shocking state' of broadband for new builds

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Lords ‘Drop’ Demands For 30Mbps Broadband Minimum Speeds...

Government plans for a broadband USO will be fast tracked after Lords reportedly drop demands for a minimum requirement of 30Mbps

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UK And 14 Other EU States ‘Oppose’ Minimum Spectrum...

15 EU countries claim minimum 25 year licences would stifle innovation and flexible in the mobile sector

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BrickerBot Malware ‘Disables Two Million Devices’

A malware family aimed at 'bricking' devices before they can be infected by Mirai has allegedly rendered millions of vulnerable devices useless

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Microsoft Connects LinkedIn To Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 users will be able to draw on LinkedIn sales data in the first fruit of Microsoft's £20bn acquisition of the social network

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How Land Rover BAR Hopes Wearables, Mobile Apps & 4G Will Deliver...

Silicon pays a visit to the south coast to find out how Ben Ainslie Racing is using mobile technology to power its bid for the 2017 America's Cup in Bermuda