Broadband News

August 2008 - October 2008

(16-10-08) - BT Openzone slashes wifi costs - Wireless internet provider BT Openzone launched a new price structure yesterday, cutting wifi rates by up to 50 per cent.

(15-10-08) - Customers think Virgin Media is the fastest - Cable provider Virgin Media has topped a survey that rates providers on the speeds their customers believe they are actually getting.

(14-10-08) - Wales and London to trial fibre broadband - Broadband users in Muswell Hill, London and Whitchurch, South Glamorgan are to be the first to get fibre to the cabinet, BT has announced.

(13-10-08) - Virgin Media criticises speed testers - The UK’s cable provider has called on speed testers to improve their techniques ahead of its 50Mb launch.

(10-10-08) - More shoppers moving online this Christmas - The credit crunch will force more shoppers online this Christmas than ever before, according to a new YouGov survey.

(09-10-08) - Business broadband sees speed boost - A quarter of UK businesses now have a broadband package of more than 10Mb, according to new research from Point Topic.

(08-10-08) - Carphone Warehouse offers free laptops with Virgin Media XL - Customers signing up to Virgin Media’s XL broadband bundle in Carphone Warehouse stores will currently receive a free laptop as well.

(07-10-08) - Be Broadband gets the personal touch - Be customers can now optimise their broadband to suit their internet needs, the super-fast provider has announced.

(06-10-08) - UK broadband tops 16 million - boosted by LLU - The UK’s broadband customer base increased by almost 600,000 in the first quarter of 2008, bringing the total to 16.2 million.

(03-10-08) - New 24Mb packages from Eclipse - Eclipse Internet has launched a new range of home broadband packages with speeds of up to 24Mb.

(02-10-08) - Mobile broadband sets Hull free - Frustrated with the lack of choice, Hull’s broadband customers have been turning to mobile broadband in record numbers, according to the Carphone Warehouse.

(01-10-08) - Virgin Media introduces mobile broadband - Cable provider Virgin Media has become the latest ISP to offer mobile broadband.

(30-09-08) - UK ranks fourth for broadband - The UK has been placed fourth in the European Union’s latest Broadband Ranking Index, which rates countries on broadband speed, price, competition and coverage.

(29-09-08) - BT loses wifi access to The Cloud - BT Openzone customers will no longer have access to The Cloud wireless hotspots from this Thursday.

(26-09-08) - BT celebrates 100,000 money-saving credit cards - Just over a year after launching its own credit card, BT announced that it has signed up its 100,000th customer.

(25-09-08) - Mobile broadband overtakes wifi hotspots - The massive boom in mobile broadband services over the past year has seen the technology overtake “location specific” wifi hotspots, according to new research.

(24-09-08) - Be launches ‘More Than 8Mb’ - Super-fast broadband provider Be Broadband has launched a new “Broadband Heaven” campaign promoting its faster, up to 24Mb speeds.

(23-09-08) - Brown promises ‘broadband for all’ - Low-income families could get vouchers worth up to £700 to get them online, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised.

(22-09-08) - £2 mobile broadband from T-Mobile - T-Mobile has slashed the price of its daily rate mobile broadband to only £2 a day and adding to its range of pay as you go broadband plans.

(19-09-08) - Fancy 40Mb from Be? - Super-fast broadband provider Be Broadband is looking for existing customers to trail a new line-bonding technology that could offer speeds of up to 40Mb.

(19-09-08) - The internet can save you £70 a month - Families can save £70 a month by shopping for household goods and services online, according to the Post Office.

(18-09-08) - TalkTalk sees ‘biggest improvement’ in customer service - Once-troubled broadband provider TalkTalk has seen massive improvements in customer service, according to recent research.

(17-09-08) - Sky ditches fair usage policy - Sky has removed the fair usage policy from its Max Broadband package, allowing it to offer a truly “unlimited” service.

(16-09-08) - Sky is top of the ISP pops - Sky Broadband has come top in all the satisfaction categories of a new broadband satisfaction survey.

(15-09-08) - No Government cash for next-gen broadband - The telecoms industry will have to raise the cash for any next generation broadband network without aid from the Government, a new report has warned.

(12-09-08) - AOL offers PS3 with Wireless Plus package - AOL is offering new customers signing up to its Wireless Plus Broadband package the chance to get their hands on a Sony PlayStation 3 at no extra cost.

(11-09-08) - iPlate boosts speeds by 60 per cent - BT’s £10, home-install device can increase ADSL broadband connections by around 60 per cent according to new tests.

(10-09-08) - Switching increases in a bid to save cash - More consumers are switching their broadband provider in a bid to reduce their monthly outgoings, according to new research.

(09-09-08) - BBC iPlayer goes mobile - The BBC’s free TV download service will soon be available on mobile broadband equipped mobile phones, starting with the Nokia N96.

(08-09-08) - Fibre network could top £28 billion - A warning of the “tough choices” ahead has been issued by a report saying that the cost of taking a fibre broadband connection into every home could reach as much as £28.8 billion.

(05-09-08) - Government review is against state-funded fibre broadband - A Government review into the need for a generation fibre broadband network is expected to advise ministers against major public investment, it has been revealed.

(04-09-08) - 100Mb broadband should ‘leapfrog’ communities - Communities that have been excluded from current broadband technologies should be the first to get next generation fibre connections, the Ofcom Consumer Panel has said.

(03-09-08) - Addicted to the net - More than three quarters of Brits say that they cannot live without the internet according to a new YouGov poll for 118118.

(02-09-08) - Cable leads broadband speeds - With an average reliability of 50.5 per cent throughout August, cable broadband continues to be far more reliable than ADSL as a whole - which scored an average of only 38.8 per cent.

(01-09-08) - BT ditches 2GB Digital Vault - Broadband behemoth BT has announced that it will close its free 2GB Digital Vault service at the end of next month.

(29-08-08) - Be launches online speed estimator - Super-fast broadband provider Be Broadband has launched its own online speed tester, in a bid to improve transparency.

(28-08-08) - Second time lucky for Orange free broadband - Mobile phone giant Orange has relaunched its ‘free broadband’ offer to any new customers signing up to one of its mobile phone contracts worth at least £30 a month.

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