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One of our readers has spotted that the price of PlusNet’s 16Mbps unlimited standard broadband and free weekend calls bundle has quietly been cut once again, from £9.99 to just £1.99 a month, for the first 12 months of service (note: it’s also on a 12 month contract).
Rail operator First Great Western (FGW), which has already made a free wireless internet service available at 23 stations across the United Kingdom via The Cloud (BSkyB), has announced that it’s working with Nomad Digital to ensure that all 53 of their High Speed Trains and Night Riviera trains are also fitted with WiFi.
City-focused ISP Hyperoptic has announced that its “hyper-sonic” 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTH/B) service is now available to residents of the new East Village neighbourhood, which is perhaps better known as the former Athletes’ Village in Stratford, London (E20).
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Study Group 15 has given its formal “consent” to the start of the final approval process for the next generation G.fast (aka – FTTC2 / ITU G.9700) broadband standard, which could one day deliver speeds of up to 1000Mbps (1Gbps) over some BT hybrid fibre (mixed copper and fibre optic) lines.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Twitter tweet advert from O2 UK after it misleadingly claimed that customers using their Mobile Broadband connection to roam while travelling around Europe would only need to pay £1.99 for a day’s worth of data usage, which failed to mention the tiny usage allowance.