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Woolwich beheading sparks call to REVIVE UK Snoopers' Charter

What? You don't agree? What are you, a terrorist?

24 May 10:08

Virgin Media slides fat 10Gbps pipes into Murdoch's BSkyB

I wanna be your backhaul man

23 May 11:43

George Soros pumps £50m into fibre-gobbling ISP Hyperoptic

Wants to sign up 500k UK homes by 2018

23 May 10:48

IiNet offloads fibre network to NBN Co

Exits Canberra FTTP market

22 May 22:57

Give porno danger classes to Brit kids as young as FIVE - parents

Sex ed must cover web smut, families tell heads

20 May 11:24

'Momentous year' for TalkTalk as it surges from 3rd place to, er, 4th

This is 'fundamentally better', insists Harding

16 May 09:59

Australia downloads a limping 13 Mbps, says Ookla

Looking under the data, it's not so simple

15 May 23:04

Murdoch hate sparks mass bitchin', rapid evacuation from O2, BE

1 in 3 polled punters will quit ISP gobbled by Sky

15 May 14:06

More Wi-Fi in the sky: FCC to help keep US flyers tweeting

May auction 500MHz to help 'em Instagram hideous dinner in real time

10 May 12:34

TalkTalk's tiny package most certainly not 'best value', tuts watchdog

Oh, put it away

8 May 12:24

FTTN cabinet survives Kiwi car crash

Update Malcolm Turnbull's FTTN NBN plan now proven to be physically robust

8 May 02:53

NBN rollout to reach 1.3m new premises by late 2016

NBN Co and Minister offer different descriptions of construction deadline

5 May 02:51

BSkyB seeks 100s of Geordies to deal with broadband customer growth

Why Aye, lad!

2 May 11:47

Ofcom probes BT over fibre pricing after repeated gripes from TalkTalk

Fight, fight: 'Very talented and lovely monopolist' vs 'copper Luddites'

2 May 09:55

ISPs: Get ready to slurp streams from Murdoch's fat pipe

How Sky's about to BE the limit for O2 broadband

2 May 06:03

Plusnet's 'Everyone's a winner' claim is a plus-sized whopper

Watchdog slaps ISP for Del Boy-like tactics

1 May 10:44

The NBN questions Malcolm Turnbull won't answer

How you gonna call?

27 Apr 20:06

'Your infernal cable pipes come up from Hell, Virgin!'

Quotw Plus: 'I suspect some DDoS skid on his Mum's Windows box'

26 Apr 10:04

Virgin Media: SO SORRY we fined your dead dad £10 for unpaid bill

'Being deceased, it's probably slipped his mind' says son-in-law

25 Apr 12:05

Google's $1 fiber deal will cost Provo, Utah $1.7m

$500,000 just to locate all the cable

25 Apr 00:45

Oz broadband speeds collapsed in 2012

Bottomless thirst for downloads chokes the tubes

23 Apr 23:24

Voda wants NBN access to boost regional 4G spread

Country Oz needs a fibre diet to suck nutrients out of wireless broadband

23 Apr 01:10

Web minister Maria Miller: UK WILL hit 2015 broadband target

Fibre to reach 10m households by end of Parliament, she insists

22 Apr 07:03

Turnbull 'flat out' seeking NBN killer blow

Why does the philosopher prince of broadband care about a half-a-percent saving?

21 Apr 18:04

How much will Google pay to bring fiber to Provo, Utah? Try $1

Not a bad price for a $39m network build-out

19 Apr 21:52

Coalition's NBN plan: where's the cost of the copper?

Vulture South goes mad with a spreadsheet, can't find billions in opex

14 Apr 20:14

Australia's alternative NBN plan: some taxpayer-friendly questions

Puncturing political promises with practicalities

10 Apr 23:45

Google: 'Austin is our next Fiber city.' AT&T: 'Us, too – maybe'

Big Phone horns in on Googly gigabit internet announcement

9 Apr 23:14

Australia's coalition launches new broadband policy

Fibre to the premises unlikely for most in cheaper, sooner, plan

9 Apr 04:03

Australia's coalition reveals bits of broadband plan

Turnbull as fiscal conservatism beats Turnbull as philosopher prince

8 Apr 23:03

BT boss barks at TalkTalk for being 'copper Luddites'

Even though most of telecom giant's new fibre network is mainly FTTC

8 Apr 12:43

Is NBN Co about to pay for 80 years of power pole access?

Historical prices for HFC access suggest NSW Government overcharging massively

3 Apr 23:52

Living in the middle of a big city? Your broadband may still be crap

No cloud movies for you if you lose the postcode lottery

28 Mar 15:04

Orange is the new TalkTalk of the broadband complaints league

Outstrips all competitors in race to the bottom. Again

28 Mar 11:59

ASA says 'unlimited' broadband can have 'moderate' limits on it

Virgin choking wasn't moderate, so its wrist is smacked

28 Mar 08:28

Watchdog warns UK.gov not to create 'them and us' digital divide

Want some welfare payouts? Buy a computer

28 Mar 06:25

Wealthy London NIMBYs grit teeth, welcome 'ugly' fibre cabinets

Six foot high boxes-o-infrastructure crush opposition

27 Mar 12:26

NORKS switch off 3G data for tourists

Kim Jong-un giveth and then he taketh away...

27 Mar 05:02

BT scores £146 meellion more UK.gov cash to fibre up Balamory

BDUK? BTUK, more like. And no, it won't be here in 2015

26 Mar 13:58

Inside Adastral: BT's Belgium-sized broadband boffinry base

Geek's Guide to Britain Drive-by bragging rights

26 Mar 10:28

UK biz ISP Entanet goes titsup, 'broke' a bit of Blighty's internet

'Resilient national network? Not tonight!'

22 Mar 11:25

NBN collapses* into chaos*

*If 'collapses' and 'chaos'= <5 per cent delay

21 Mar 22:22

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