The Belfast Telegraph reports that over 70% of homes in Northern Ireland have access to broadband – an increase of 6% on this time last year. The way many people actually use the Internet is changing as a result of such widespread broadband access – over 44% of people use Social Networks or wat
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Mobile network analysts Informa believe that mobile networks in Britain and the USA are struggling with the sheer volume of data being delivered – particularly those in and around major cities. Dimitris Mavrakis, an analyst with Informa, says the firm is currently seeing major bottlenecks in the
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Reports by Uttiset suggest that Finland has created another law further guaranteeing broadband access to its citizens by passing a law that makes broadband access a legal right for all Finnish citizens. As of July 2010 every person in Finland will have a legal right to a 1Mbps broadband connection.
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Mobile Broadband penetration is set to surpass standard fixed line broadband by the end of 2009 a new study has reported. The study, carried out by the International telecommunications Union, indicates that mobile broadband connections across the world is on course to top 600 million by the end of
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According to a report on the TimesOnline website, broadband reliability is the number one concern of broadband consumers. A poll carried out by a comparison site found that 34% of internet users felt that reliability was the most important factor – ahead of both value for money (23%) and, more su
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An interesting (and not really surprising) article on the BBC website suggests that Mobile Broadband providers aren’t producing the goods when it comes to actual download speeds versus their advertised speeds. Research has shown that the average download speed for mobile broadband is 1.1Mbps –
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The telecoms arm of supermarket firm Tesco is reporting a huge jump in the number of Pay as you go mobile broadband packages sold. Pay as You Go Broadband deals are popular with students due to both the flexible nature of the "contract" (or lack thereof) and the fact that it allows high speed Int
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According to figures released at the Broadband World Forum there will be half a Billion active broadband connections by next year. The current annual global growth rate of 17% will swell the current total of 444.3 million to 500m. Not surprisingly Asia makes up the bulk of the market at 40% total
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The use of the term "Unlimited" when it comes to broadband is not the same as the accepted definition of the word, which is, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "Boundless, Infinite". Broadband providers have adapted this word to make their product offerings more attractive to the consum
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The fibre network provider i3 Group has announced a joint venture with Terra solutions to deploy next generation fibre optic networks throughout the sewers of Ireland - both north and south. Operating under the business name H20 Ireland the company will initially be based in Newry, Co Down with f
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Broadband provider Orange has been hit by an outage, the BBC reports. The company, who has nearly 1 million customers ...
ZDNet are reporting that Vodafone have announced plans to increase the speed of its Mobile Broadband to a whoppi...
Virgin Media plan to roll out 150Mbps broadband within 2 years according to the BBC website. This news follows hot...
