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Chances are that most of you won’t have heard about the once popular little ISP called Madasafish, which following BT’s purchase of the Brightview group was ultimately merged under PlusNet’s wing all the way back in late 2007. But soon the little fish will be no more.
Liberty Global, which owns cable operator Virgin Media as well as other ISPs (e.g. Ziggo, Telenet and UPC), has offered up the first look at their new “Connect Box” device (Virgin’s next combined broadband router and cable modem). The name may be changed in the UK to SuperHub v3.
Broadband users with connections that are based off BTOpenreach’s national network (e.g. BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk), specifically those who reside around the eastern side of Edinburgh in Scotland (East Lothian), appear to be suffering from a curious fault that is causing downloads to corrupt.
A new Which? survey of the United Kingdom’s 100 biggest brands, which focused on customer service quality, has revealed that energy and telecoms firms dominate the bottom of the table where BT, TalkTalk and Vodafone were all also singled out for criticism.
Mobile operator Three UK has this week become the first national provider to switch-on a commercial Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) service, which essentially allows high quality voice calling and text messages to be sent over their normally data centric 4G network. But there’s more.
Telecoms giant EE has announced that it is to introduce a new “Broadband Service First” pledge, which will form part of a fresh commitment to move away from the bad old days and their sometimes shaky history of customer service. Now to set aside that feeling of déjà vu from the old Orange days.