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		<title>Lancashire County Council promises high-speed broadband by 2014</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lancashire is set on getting high-speed broadband access after its county council pledged on improving the current state of broadband in a span of two years.
The council&#8217;s move is in line with the UK government&#8217;s hopes of bringing universal broadband access with speeds of at least 2Mbps to the country. Furthermore, the government&#8217;s Broadband Delivery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/lancashire-county-council-promises-high-speed-broadband-by-2014/7716452</link>
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		<title>Hampshire gets faster broadband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BT Broadband has been taking the lead in helping rebuild the UK&#8217;s broadband infrastructure. The firm began deploying fibre last year after they announced their fibre-to-the-premises service that would provide superfast connections straight to people&#8217;s homes.
Earlier this week, BT revealed that they were gearing up to bring speeds of up to 300Mbps to the country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/hampshire-gets-faster-broadband-2/7716451</link>
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		<title>Scottish Borders Council reveals budget plans for the coming financial year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish government has big plans for broadband. This much they made clear when they announced Scotland&#8217;s Digital Future, which is basically a blueprint that speed up the current broadband connections by as much as five times.
The Infrastructure Action Plan was unveiled by Secretary Alex Neil, who said: &#8220;There is no doubt that digital is the way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/scottish-borders-council-reveals-budget-plans-for-the-coming-financial-year/7716436</link>
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		<title>Councils instructed to improve broadband or miss out on funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a bid to push for better broadband infrastructure and faster connections, the government has set up Broadband Delivery UK. One goal of the program is to bring superfast broadband services with speeds of at least 2Mbps to the entire country. Another was to push for next-generation broadband to at least ninety percent of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/councils-instructed-to-improve-broadband-or-miss-out-on-funding/7716435</link>
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		<title>O2 patches bug that caused mobile phone number leaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Networks and operators can expect a huge backlash if they don&#8217;t put measures into place that will sufficiently protect their users data. And it was a huge backlash indeed that O2 got when users found out that it had been sending their mobile numbers to websites that they visited while surfing the Internet.
Lewis Peckover, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/o2-patches-bug-that-caused-mobile-phone-number-leaks/7716428</link>
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		<title>Superfast broadband coming soon to East Cleveland villages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Broadband has become such a huge and integral part in our culture nowadays. It has changed how we communicate with others and with how businesses go about their operations. In fact, poor Internet connections and broadband notspots have been found to affect businesses negatively, especially the tourism industry.

Broadband has many uses and applications. But more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/superfast-broadband-coming-soon-to-east-cleveland-villages/7716426</link>
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		<title>Ofcom wants new wholesale charge controls set for Openreach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom has made it known that it wants to implement a new set of controls for BT&#8217;s Openreach division. Openreach was established back in 2006 as BT&#8217;s infrastructure division that will allow the provider to implement certain projects alongside Ofcom. In line with this, Openreach will ensure that rival networks will be able to access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/ofcom-wants-new-wholesale-charge-controls-set-for-openreach/7716412</link>
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		<title>Sky promises to bring broadband to 90% of users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been quite the exciting quarter for Sky. The provider recently announced that they will be launching their own Internet TV service last week, competing for a piece in the market share along with LoveFilm and Netflix. Their new service will be launching within the first half of this year with the hopes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/sky-broadband/sky-promises-to-bring-broadband-to-90-of-users/7716413</link>
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		<title>BT promises to deliver &#8216;ultra-fast&#8217; broadband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Broadband Delivery UK program was set up by the government with the goal of boosting the standard of the country&#8217;s current broadband infrastructure. The primary goal of BDUK is to bring universal broadband access to the entire UK, with these connections having speeds of at least 2Mbps. Another goal was to push for next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/bt-broadband/bt-promises-to-deliver-ultra-fast-broadband/7716399</link>
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		<title>Virgin Media now provides superfast services to 10 million UK homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month wasn&#8217;t a very good one for Virgin Media. The firm had some huge development in the wings, with the announcement that they were going to double the broadband speeds of their existing users with no extra charges. The changes are all set to be implemented this month.
Probably in their excitement to get the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/virgin-media-broadband/virgin-media-now-provides-superfast-services-to-10-million-uk-homes/7716402</link>
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