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Vodafone buys C&W Worldwide for £1.04 billion
UK mobile phone operator Vodafone has agreed to buy telecoms group Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) for £1.04 billion. Vodafone was the only firm left vying to buy C&WW after India's Tata Communications lost interest in the deal last week. According to the deal, Vodafone will buy each C&WW share for ...
Thousands register for better broadband in Suffolk
Earlier this year, Suffolk launched a campaign to bring better broadband in their county. It was a campaign that's perhaps long overdue, as a study conducted last year named Suffolk road as having the slowest broadband in the country. The Better Broadband for Suffolk campaign has grown impressively over the past few ...
Ofcom announces probe on Sky News email hacking
Hacking constitutes a major breach of privacy and it's actually something that many people and government authorities are fighting against. So it may come as a surprise when earlier this month, Sky News admitted that it had hacked into the private email accounts of three people: "canoe man" John Darwin ...
MPs: Better porn filters needed to protect children
Internet service providers have heeded the call of David Cameron by providing tools and filters to parents to prevent their children from accessing porn. Some of them need to be configured on the users' local machines, while some, like TalkTalk's HomeSafe, operated on a network level. A cross-parliamentary inquiry was recently ...
Welsh MPs: Rural mobile phone coverage is ‘ludicrous’
Many rural areas still do not have access to reliable broadband services. This is partly due to the high costs involved with setting up broadband infrastructure in these areas. Few Internet service providers are willing to establish networks when the population they will be serving is also just few in ...
Ofcom slaps HomeServe with a £750k fine for silent calls
Nobody likes making a call only to get silence on the other end of the line. This is otherwise known as the silent or dropped calls, which is when a call fails to go through because the operator doesn't have enough call centre agents to connect the calls successfully. TalkTalk was ...
Blairgowrie gets a broadband boost
BT Broadband is currently in the midst of implementing their £2.5bn broadband roll-out that will bring superfast broadband connections to two-thirds of the UK. Another area to benefit is Blairgowrie, where nearly 4800 homes and establishments are now connected to high-speed connections. Aside from Blairgowrie, BT revealed that Crieff and Kinross ...
Consumers: UK’s new ad rules don’t go far enough
In the last quarter of last year, the Advertising Standards Authority published and called for the implementation of a stricter set of guidelines for ads put out by broadband service providers. This move was made to counteract the habit that ISPs had of putting forward unrealistic or untrue claims when ...
ISP criticises county council over broadband plans
The government launched the Broadband Delivery UK program with the goal of improving the broadband infrastructure in the country. Sizable funding has been set aside to provide financial aid to local county councils so they can push forward with the broadband plans for their respective areas. A broadband business owner has ...
UK court orders O2 to hand over identities of porn sharers
A handful of people are going to find themselves in a very embarrassing position, no thanks to a recent order made by a UK court to broadband service provider O2: hand over the identities of porn file sharers to the pornographic film distributor Golden Eye International. Illegal file sharing is an ...
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