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The best broadband deals in June 2021

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When it comes to broadband deals, you’ll want to make sure you’ve found the perfect option for you. Considering how much use you’ll be getting out of it and how essential internet is these days, getting the right investment is crucial.

It can be confusing with a massive pile of promotions, some odd jargon and endless discounts to work through. But you don’t need to worry about all of that – that’s where we come in to help you find the best broadband deals.

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The best broadband deals in May 2021

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When it comes to broadband deals, you’ll want to make sure you’ve found the perfect option for you. Considering how much use you’ll be getting out of it and how essential internet is these days, getting the right investment is crucial.

It can be confusing with a massive pile of promotions, some odd jargon and endless discounts to work through. But you don’t need to worry about all of that – that’s where we come in to help you find the best broadband deals.

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BT broadband speeds continue to get quicker, but millions are still missing out

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BT broadband boost

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BT broadband boost

BT broadband customers could soon see a dramatic boost to their download speeds. That’s because the supplier has just announced that more homes than ever can now access its much faster full-fibre cables. BT revealed the latest figures on its fastest broadband speeds during a quarterly earnings call with shareholders. During the update, it announced that over four million homes have now been upgraded to this latest and greatest technology, which brings full-fibre cables directly into homes.

Fibre broadband isn’t anything new with most streets in the UK receiving this upgrade. However, things can often be brought back down to a snail’s pace due to older copper lines that physically connect homes to the network. This is known as the “last mile” problem. As while it’s possible that your town has a next-generation fibre cable running under the streets… that’s not going to stop your Netflix show buffering, or your FaceTime call freezing unless the same cable runs up your drive and into the router in your hallway or living room.

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The rollout of full-fibre-to-premises, or FTTP as it’s known in industry jargon, which is being installed via Openreach, is expected to hit 4.5 million homes by next month with an average of 42,000 premises being connected a week. Once installed, most properties can then expect to see speeds over 300Mbps, which is around five times faster than the UK average and allows a full HD 1080p movie to be downloaded in around 3 minutes.

Along with being faster, full-fibre is also more reliable than older copper cables and isn’t impacted by bad weather – something that can seriously slow down internet delivered over copper cables.

READ MORE: Millions are missing out on FREE broadband offers in the UK right now

Speaking about the latest update, Philip Jansen, BT’s Chief Executive, said: “During the current Covid-19 pandemic, BT has continued to deliver for our customers and invest in our networks, our modernisation programme, and our products and…

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The Russian hack and securing our 5G broadband future

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It doesn’t look like a four-letter word but, as with all things in the realm of cyberspace and security, looks can be deceiving. News of the Russian hack of literally tens of thousands of government agencies and many of our largest companies has suddenly made our vulnerability painfully real — especially at a time when the pandemic has expanded our use of cyber space into virtually every aspect of daily living. “Work From Home” (WFH), food delivery, on-line retail, telehealth, and distance learning are only examples of a myriad of daily life functions that have suddenly been transformed from in-person to an increasingly digitally accessed world. While empowering, this digital transformation is also creating new digital vulnerabilities.

The bad guy is in the house


That old horror movie line is suddenly a chilling possibility for vast portions of the United States public and private networks. The “high trade craft” introduction of sleeper malware into a seemingly routine upgrade of Solar Winds Orion software between March and June of 2020 has exposed large sectors of U.S. infrastructure to malicious actors who can not only spy on sensitive and secret information, but also invisibly manipulate the underlying systems that actually run key segments of our society. Left unchecked, the potential mischief and real damage is incalculable, and the really scary thing is that, unless we’re very careful, they’ll be watching us do whatever we try to do to fix it from inside the house.

Cyber security is national security

The primary function of our National Security agencies is to protect the American way of life. Increasingly the traditional “analog” threats that have challenged our armed forces and intelligence agencies have been made worse, or supplanted, by cyber threats that have the capacity to inflict both tactical and strategic damage as bad or worse than conventional weapons. The pandemic and the exponential expansion of our use of the Internet has accelerated the pace of our adoption of broadband enabled…

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