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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

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 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

Virgin Media boss to Osbo: Bung city fibre cash into small biz

Analysis ISP boss reckons UK.gov should spend £75m getting offline firms online

20 Mar 08:03

Has the ACCC tripped up in its ADSL declaration?

Virtual circuits for ADSL are way too expensive: The Register tallies up the numbers

18 Mar 21:48

Fujitsu pulls a muscle, drops out of race for £530m broadband pot

BT now ONLY bidder for UK taxpayer-funded fibre jobs

18 Mar 12:45

Copper load of that: Ofcom claims HUGE jump in 'average' broadband speed

What do you mean you don't believe it?

14 Mar 13:15

BT pockets more gov broadband millions. This time: Lincolnshire

Another fibre job that won't be completed until 2016

14 Mar 10:25

What's most important? Bandwidth over kilo-miles, or milli-watts?

Big Blue boffins, AT&T brainboxes beg to differ

14 Mar 08:26

Applications to run more white-space Local TV stations invited

Button 8 placement perhaps to reflect number of viewers

14 Mar 07:57

BT denies spiralling engineer no-shows - Reg readers DISAGREE

Telco claims missed appointments have fallen

12 Mar 13:32

BAN SMUT, rage MEPs: Purpose of internet must be EXTERMINATED

Euro grumble-flick block bid bashed as attack on freedom

8 Mar 12:59

Virgin Media keeps mum as punters fume at crippled web access

Coders->struggle_to_access = StackOverflow.com;

7 Mar 17:07

BT to slap overalls on 1,000 new bods in fibre broadband boost

Here's your badge, screwdriver and hard hat - now get on with it

7 Mar 11:04

WE CAN still be BETTER than Germany on broadband, says Ofcom

Comment But forget about most of EU's NEED FOR SPEED

5 Mar 12:52

Opposition leader raises ‘your Internet will cost you more’ spook

NBN will be ‘three times the current price’: Tony Abbott

4 Mar 21:57

Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal

Acquisition plan revealed exclusively by El Reg in January

1 Mar 11:04

Mobile data prices rise as capacity crunch bites – ACCC

Regulator also watches NBN migration practices

26 Feb 21:10

BT argues Ofcom is 'mistaken' on Ethernet price capping plan

Plenty of competition, says national telco

25 Feb 11:44

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