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British Telecom has received a telling off after misleading would-be customers over when their area may receive high speed internet access.

Superfast broadband pioneers Virgin Media and BT have taken legal action action Birmingham City Council's plans to launch a rival network.

Vodafone has decided to branch out its business to broadband by buying beleaguered telecoms company Cable & Wireless.

A small village in Oxfordshire has been chosen to pilot BT's fibre-only exchange, with Deddington homes and businesses to be given a glimpse of a more connected world.

Opinion Can we even be slightly surprised that years of ISPs using terms like 'Up to..." with broadband speeds has left millions of Brits confused and settling with crappy connections?

Big changes coming for ISP

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Britain's internet service providers have been told to completely overhaul the way they advertise broadband speeds.

Virgin Media has announced that it will begin trials of what it is calling the 'world's fastest broadband', with the cable giant expecting to attain speeds of a whopping 1.5Gbps.