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CityFibre has today begun canvassing businesses in the city of Peterborough (East of England), with the hope that they will want to join its new “Gig Up” campaign by registering their interest in connecting via the new urban fibre optic network (aka – Peterborough CORE).
The mobile division of Supermarket giant Tesco, which is naturally called Tesco Mobile and bases its service off an MVNO deal with O2, has followed Three UK’s lead by offering access to its latest 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband network at no extra cost for both new and existing customers.
Business ISP Gradwell and CityFibre have started looking for businesses in the Someset city of Bath (South West England) to register their interest and support plans to roll-out a 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband network (GigaBath) to local firms.
Customers of Zen Internet’s legacy superfast “Fibre Optic Broadband” (FTTC) packages, such as their old Fibre Lite and Fibre Active products, will receive a significant increase to their existing monthly usage (download) allowances from 1st February 2014.
Cable ISP Virgin Media has reduced the contract length of their broadband and phone bundles from 18 to 12 months, while also continuing to offer their “RED HOT SALE” discount that reduces the prices by almost half for the first six months of service (note: Line Rental is still payable at £15.99 a month or the equivalent of £10.66 when pre-paid).
It’s been a difficult few months for BSkyB (Sky Broadband) but the operators latest Q4 2013 results have revealed that their broadband ISP subscriber base continued to grow by +110,000 in Q4 to total 5,127,000 (stable from +111k added in Q3). Churn also fell and ARPU grew but their unbundled (LLU) network expansion stopped.