Foreign criminals attempting to scam Britons via spoof numbers will be blocked by phone networks in future. The calls show up as a UK number on phones but really come from abroad.
Scotland has worst broadband speed in UK - see how your hometown compares
Official figures show hundreds of thousands of people do not have access to decent connection speeds, with huge differences between regions.
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Households in the north east enjoy the fastest average download speeds in the country
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The Cambridgeshire neighbourhood with the slowest internet in the county
Internet speeds have been under the spotlight during the pandemic
Internet speeds vary considerably across Cambridgeshire (Image: Pixabay)
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The Surrey neighbourhood with the slowest broadband speed in the county
People living in the Woking neighbourhood have an average download speeds of just 2.5 Mbit/s
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