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UPDATE2 ISP O2 UK Claim Home Broadband and Phone Sale to Sky is Done

1st May, 2013 (19 Comments)

Customers of O2 / BE Broadband’s fixed line home broadband and phone service have this week been told that the £180m+ sale to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) “has now gone through” and related subscribers are thus “officially with Sky“. But the actual migration to Sky will not get underway until this Autumn 2013.

BT Wholesale and O2 UK Sign Deal to Boost 4G Mobile Data Capacity

29th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has signed a new ten-year deal that will see BTWholesale work to support the imminent introduction of faster 4G (LTE) based mobile broadband services for millions of the operators customers by building a new high capacity transmission network.

OFT to Rule on Sky Takeover of O2 UK Home Broadband in May 2013

19th April, 2013 (11 Comments)

The anticipated £180m+ acquisition by BSkyB (Sky Broadband) of O2 UK and BE Broadband’s fixed line internet and phone customers (full details), which was originally due to complete by the end of April 2013 (subject to regulatory clearance), could suffer a delay.

O2 UK Shun SKY Sale Concerns to Offer 12 Months Half Price Broadband

11th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 appears to have glossed over any lingering concerns about the impending £180m migration of their fixed line customers to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) by offering their Home Broadband services at 12 months half price with a £100 M&S shopping voucher.

O2 UK Bring FREE WiFi to London Underground Stations via Virgin Media

8th April, 2013 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has signed a new wholesale agreement with Virgin Media that will allow its WiFi customers access to a free wireless internet service at 120 London Underground train stations from June 2013.

O2 Wholesale UK Tells ISP Partners to Stop Worrying About the BSkyB Sale

26th March, 2013 (3 Comments)

O2 Wholesale, which supplies business clients with internet connectivity solutions, has told their ISP partners that it’s “business as usual” at the firm. The comment follows O2 and BE Broadband’s (Telefonica) £180m sale of its fixed line home broadband and phone business to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) earlier this month.

UPD Virgin Media and BT UK Begin Censorship of 3 Internet Piracy Websites

22nd March, 2013 (2 Comments)

BT, Virgin Media and other ISPs have officially started blocking their broadband customers from being able to access three websites – Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents – that were last month found by London’s High Court to be facilitating internet piracy (copyright infringement).

UPDATE8 ISP O2 UK and BE Sell Home Broadband and Phone Service to Sky

1st March, 2013 (51 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (BE Broadband), which is owned by Spanish multinational Telefonica, has today confirmed that their struggling fixed line Home Broadband and Home Phone service is to be taken over by arch rival BSkyB (Sky Broadband) for a consideration of £180 million.

UPDATE ISP O2 UK Sees Home Broadband Subscribers Fall to 560100

28th February, 2013 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has suffered another painful quarter after their latest results for Q4-2012 showed that its fixed line home broadband subscriber base had fallen by -19,400 in the quarter to reach a new total of 560,100 customers. Meanwhile rumours of a sale to BSkyB continue to persist.

UPD AAISP UK Slap Fluidata and O2 Wholesale for Network Congestion

19th February, 2013 (13 Comments)

The director of business ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, has criticised the O2 Wholesale (BE Broadband) back-haul capacity offered through Fluidata because of “congestion issues” that have been “going on for a while“; some of which is spill-over from heavy use on O2/BE’s “unlimited” consumer services.

ISPreview Talks to Westminster City Council about its FREE O2 WiFi Service

11th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Last year O2 UK signed a new deal to provide visitors and residents of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea (i.e. Central London) with access to one of the largest free wireless internet (wifi) access zones in Europe. Today ISPreview.co.uk interviews both O2 and Westminster City Council (WCC) about what this means and how it’s been funded.

O2 UK and BE Broadband ISP Users Receive 250 GoldenEye Piracy Letters

2nd February, 2013 (6 Comments)

Customers of ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) have this week begun to receive the first 250 of just under 1,000 initial internet piracy threat letters from Golden Eye International (GEIL), which targets internet users whom are suspected of having “illegally” shared (P2P) copyright content that belongs to the Ben Dover porn brand.

ISP O2 UK Offers 6 Months FREE Home Broadband with 3 XBox Games

23rd January, 2013 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK has confirmed that anybody who signs-up with one of their top two “unlimited” Home Broadband packages will get both 6 months of free service (3 months free for non-o2 mobile users) and also three Kinect compatible XBox 360 games (Nike+ Kinect, Forza Horizon and Nat Geo Kinect TV).

ISP Virgin Media Tops UK Netflix Chart of the Fastest Movie Streams

15th January, 2013 (1 Comment)

Netflix UK, the unlimited movies and TV subscription based video streaming service, has published its latest December 2012 rankings for broadband Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom. The ratings reflect the average performance of all Netflix video streams on each ISP.

UPD3 Uncertainty Grips O2 and BE Broadband UK After ISP Sale Rumours

11th January, 2013 (26 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has refused to “comment on rumour or speculation” concerning an alleged plan to offload its unbundled (LLU) fixed line Home Broadband business to another provider (possibly Sky Broadband [BSkyB]).

Golden Eye Will Expand Piracy Threat Letters to More UK ISP Customers

28th December, 2012 (6 Comments)

Golden Eye International (GEIL), the firm which holds numerous copyrights for UK adult films (Ben Dover) and has recently been targeting O2’s broadband ISP customers with internet piracy settlement letters, has confirmed that it plans to use a recent court win to expand its scheme by tackling copyright infringement on behalf of USA based rights holders.

UK Court Allows Golden Eye’s Appeal for More O2 Internet Piracy Letters

21st December, 2012 (3 Comments)

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has today failed in its Court of Appeal bid to block Golden Eye International (GEIL), a firm that holds numerous copyrights for adult films (e.g. Ben Dover), from potentially sending thousands more internet piracy settlement letters to customers of UK ISP O2 (BE Broadband).