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Mesh WiFi network on 127 lamp posts covers the City of London.

The BBC is set to open up 1000 hours of archive material to people as part of its trials for the forthcoming on-demand services.

With increasing use of broadband and e-mail in general, inboxes are getting fuller each day with spam e-mails promoting anything from prescription drugs to more legitimate services. If you are tired of getting spammed and wish to help put a stop to it, you could consider taking a spammer to court. This is what Gordon Dick did when he received an unsolicited commercial e-mail from Transcom Internet Services Ltd.

Virgin Media has today stated it plans to take Sky to court unless the issue of fees over 'basic' channels including Sky News and Sky One are resolved within 30 days. The two companies have been going head to head following Sky's move into broadband competing for the triple-play market share.

People who pay their line rental to BT Retail will be interested to hear that by switching to the telephone companies paperless billing system you can save 25 pence per month.

The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA UK) hosts an annual awards ceremony commonly known as 'The ISPAs'. They have announced the nominations for the three Special Awards: Internet Hero, Internet Villain and the IWF Award.

Today has seen the new BT Vision spread all over the mainstream media with a lot of coverage focusing on the amount of football content - we take our usual slightly different look on the launch.

Customers of Zen who use the Home 1000 and Home 2000 products should have had an emailed giving them details of the new 100GB download allowance that will come into effect on 1st March 2007.

The latest promotion from BT Retail is pretty simple, sign-up to its Total Broadband package between now and 15th December and get a chance to win £1000.

The Telecommunications Adjudicator update for November 2006 has been published.