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Sky Broadband Unlimited for 12 Months Half Price or FREE with TV Sport

14th Jun 2013 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has launched several new promotions including one that offers their unlimited broadband and free weekend calls bundle at half price (£5) for 12 months (6 months half price on their superfast FTTC package) or FREE if you take the Sky Sports pack. A £100 M&S Voucher is also available on their TV bundle.

Superfast Cornwall UK Project Hits Fibre Broadband Coverage Milestone

12th Jun 2013 (2 Comments)

The joint £132m public and privately funded “Big Build” Superfast Cornwall project, which aims to make BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) technology available to 95% of local premises by the end of 2014, is now covering 75% of the area.

Jobless UK People Benefit from £24 PC and Cheap Broadband Bundle

10th Jun 2013 (19 Comments)

People who are out of work or currently taking one of the other qualifying state benefits (e.g. Housing Benefit) can now get a cheap computer from just £24 alongside broadband thanks to a new special offer from the Get Online @ Home scheme.

UK ISP Vivaciti Offer Unlimited Superfast FTTC and FREE Activation

16th May 2013 (6 Comments)

Small ISP Vivaciti has recently revamped its family focused standalone unlimited superfast broadband (FTTC) package – Fibre Unlimited – to include a free activation (this comes with the Openreach VDSL modem and an engineer install).

EE and Three UK Named Fastest Mobile Broadband Operators in Hull

14th May 2013 (0 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband performance in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) has revealed that EE was the fastest mobile operator with an average download speed of 9.6Mbps and an upload of 5.5Mbps (Megabits per second). Three UK became the distant runner-up with O2 and Vodafone delivering the slowest performance.

PlusNet Offers Half Price Broadband Bundles But Hike UK Phone Charges

9th May 2013 (6 Comments)

ISP PlusNet has begun offering a series of new half price promotions on their standard (up to 16Mbps) and superfast (up to 80Mbps) unlimited broadband and phone bundle packages, although the ISP has also quietly hiked some of their line rental and call plan prices.

SKY Sale Triggers Exodus of O2 UK Home Broadband Subscribers

8th May 2013 (3 Comments)

The latest quarterly results from O2 UK (BE Broadband) appear to suggest that the ISPs fixed line home broadband customers have been climbing over themselves to escape the forthcoming migration to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) as subscriber figures fell by a staggering -40,700 in Q1-2013 to total 519,400.

UPD BT Sign £24m BDUK Deal to Boost Superfast Broadband in Durham UK

26th Apr 2013 (2 Comments)

The Durham County Council (DCC) in North East England (UK) has today signed a new state aid supported £24 million deal with BT that will see “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC and FTTP) services being rolled out to “around” 94% of local premises by the end of 2016.

ISP TalkTalk UK Prep New 500Mbps PowerLine and WiFi Adapters

4th Mar 2013 (19 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk looks set to begin offering a special branded version of DLink’s latest DHP-W311AV PowerLine adapters to its Plus TV (YouView) based home broadband customers in the not too distant future. The new kit is able to both extend your wifi network and convert a buildings electrical cable into a faster wired network.

Lord Alan Sugar Leaves Non Executive Chairman Role at YouView UK

2nd Mar 2013 (5 Comments)

YouView YourView, the broadband ISP based video-on-demand and catch-up TV (IPTV) service, have announced that Lord Alan Sugar, whom is perhaps best known as the man who founded Amstrad and says “Your’re fired!” a lot on a certain TV show, has decided to leave his role as Non-Executive Chairman.

ISPreview Security Notice

13th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Some readers might receive a security warning when visiting ISPreview.co.uk, which stems from a problem we had on Thursday last week that has since been resolved. Unfortunately it can take awhile for such threat monitoring systems to update and as a result you may continue to experience the warnings for a little longer. We have no control over external monitors or their accuracy.