"defence" is the correct spelling in English.

(English - as in the language of England.)

3 is not an MVNO. They may have recently set up a network sharing agreement with T-Mobile, but that doesn't make them a virtual network. The basic idea is that all existing T-Mobile 3G towers now transmit both T-Mobile and 3 identifiers, and same goes for the existing 3 ones.

However, their network is a bit patchy, but their data plans aren't too bad - but watch their out-of-bundle rates of 10p/MB on contract or £1/MB on PAYG.

Compare to Orange's "mobile broadband" offering where their bundles might not be quite as generous but out-of-bundle is 1.5p/MB.

BBC web content is only commercial-free within the UK.

While we in Blighty only use the BS546 for specialised uses (e.g. stage lighting), if I recall correctly it's used as the standard in South Africa.

A keyboard. How quaint.

It also proves the on-board tech to help them remain undetected worked.

A few google searches by her...

How would she do that if she doesn't know how to connect?

Not a good one, they'll definitely know where to send the bill.

How else do you puncture the film across the top of tray?

Allow me to introduce the "fork". Most models allow you to puncture the film four times in one go.

Finally, nature's own population regulation mechanism kicks in.

You're probably syncing at a significantly higher rate than 2Mbps. Demon Business 2000 (no longer available) was based on the ADSL MAX platform which is an up-to-8Mbps service, and throttled to 2Mbps at Demon's end. Perhaps Wharf T&T either haven't applied the throttle or when they have bandwidth to spare they lift the restriction.

Not necessarily true. I use a netgear DG834GT router with slightly modified firmware. When I used the 1.02.04 (or earlier) release, an SNR of 5dB was shaky and if it reached 4dB the packet loss would go through the roof and the line would fall over. With the new ADSL driver in the 1.02.09 release it's stable at just 2dB, and again I use a modded firmware (UberGT) that allows me to override (to some extent) the exchange-set target SNR figures, which also allows me to get a 1.5Mbps connection on my up-to-8Mbps service.

Alpha particles are pretty large entities, being helium nuclei (two protons and two neutrons), as a result can only travel a few centimetres through air so any machine's case will stop them completely.

Beta particles are electrons or positrons) and can reach about 9 metres through air but less than 5mm through aluminium.

A bit out of date but found from a quick google for "Siemens Staines Middlesex".