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Internet provider PlusNet has this week enhanced their 12 months of free unlimited broadband service (£9.99 per month thereafter) offer by extending the promotion to last for the full length of their 18 month contract term.
The ITS Technology Group, which has already supplied faster broadband connections to around 1,800 digitally deprived small businesses located on business parks across the United Kingdom (both rural and urban areas), has reduced the initial installation cost for related services.
The Competition and Markets Authority has today “provisionally” cleared the £12.5bn merger between national telecoms giant BT and mobile operator EE because the deal is “not expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition [SLC] in any market in the UK.”
One of the ISPs involved in a Government pilot of Satellite broadband connectivity for remote rural areas claims that the effort has been a success and that 61.5% of people who participated in a free trial have now chosen to sign up to a one-year contract. But did they have any other choice?
The Government has confirmed that they’re considering the introduction of a “domestic law” that could prevent Europe’s new Net Neutrality rules from overriding their policy of requiring all of the United Kingdom’s major broadband ISPs to block adult Internet content.
A new study claims that broadband and home phone prices for “loyal customers” (i.e. those who prefer to stay with the same ISP rather than switch) have increased by an inflation-busting 40% since 2011 and are thus paying on average £8.59 a month (£103 a year) more now than they were four years ago.