GMTV has terminated its contract with the company which provided its phone-in competition service.

The broadcaster said it had taken the decision following “irregularities” in the system Opera Interactive Technology was operating.

GMTV has been forced to deny claims that tens of thousands of people who made calls or sent texts to its competitions had no chance of winning.

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Online video services such as YouTube and Joost are pushing internet capacity to breaking point, a top Google executive has warned.

Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will soon struggle to meet rising demand for high-quality online video.

The search giant paid $1.65bn for YouTube last year.

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