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1,000 schools connected to top-of-the-class full fibre broadband

Children in more than a thousand schools are now enjoying next-generation internet speeds thanks to government investment.
  • Thousands of pupils in schools with slowest speeds can now access gigabit broadband
  • Nearly 7,000 hospitals, libraries, police stations and other public buildings to be upgraded by end of March
  • Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries says: “We are
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Sun, sea, sand…and work – welcome to the new phenomenon, ‘the Woliday’, as almost half of Brits are extending getaway by working from the seaside

  • New research from EE reveals almost half (47%) of Brits will make the most of ubiquitous mobile coverage to take an extended ‘woliday’ - as travel restrictions lead to staycations increase
  • Nearly three quarters (73%) of workers reveal how the main motivation is to spend more quality time with family at UK holiday hotspots
  • Superfast data speed has become a
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15 million people suffered a major broadband outage in the last year

Written by Uswitch

  • Broadband outages have tripled in the last year[1] as almost 15 million consumers faced downtime of three or more hours[2]
  • Over three in ten experienced an outage during office hours, costing the UK 16 million working days — a hit of nearly £5 billion to the economy[3]
  • A third of people used their mobile data during an outage[4
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