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The state aid supported CSW Broadband project, which is working with BT to extend their “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) FTTC/P network to “nearly” 94% of Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry (England) by 2017, has announced the next batch of areas to benefit from an upgrade.
ISP WiSpire, which offers faster wireless broadband services to isolated parts of rural Norfolk, has today launched a new website and revamped their packages. Some of the changes include the addition of a new 30Mbps package and a Broadband Delivery UK subsidised option for those in sub-2Mbps areas.
Sky has launched a new discount that offers their ‘up to’ 17Mbps Sky Broadband Unlimited package free for the first 12 months of service (£10 thereafter) and they’ve also thrown in a £100 Marks and Spencer e-voucher, although you still have to pay line rental on top.
Admittedly the opening title of Vodafone’s new survey of 2,000 British adults doesn’t make a lot of sense, “ONE IN FIVE BRITS WOULD RATHER GO WITHOUT GAS OR ELECTRICITY THAN BROADBAND” (broadband requires electricity to work). But get away from the headline and are there are some useful figures.
TalkTalk has today begun offering their unlimited SimplyBroadband package free for the first 12 months of service (£7.50 per month thereafter), although you still have to pay line rental of £15.93 per month (when pre-paid for 1 year) or £17.70 as standard on top.
Over the year’s we’ve talked a lot about the different ways in which Government’s and operators choose to define terms like “fibre broadband” and now the local authority in Shropshire has managed to water it down further by adding wireless connections into the mix.