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ISP Sky Broadband UK Grows to 4.39 Million Subscribers

2nd May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today published their latest financial results to 31st March 2013 (Q1-2013), which reported another quarterly increase of +152,000 in their fixed line broadband ISP subscriber base to total 4,387,000 customers (up sharply from the +132k added in Q4-2012 and +102k in Q3-2012).

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.

ISP Sky Broadband Unblocks Legal Website Caught in The Pirate Bay Net

22nd April, 2013 (0 Comments)

It took three weeks to get resolved but Sky Broadband UK (BSkyB) has now apologised to its customers after a seemingly legal website was mistakenly caught up in the ISPs censorship of the The Pirate Bay (internet piracy) website, which was blocked last year following a court order.

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.

Weekend Sky Broadband ISP Outage Hit Northern England and Scotland UK

8th April, 2013 (1 Comment)

Customers of Sky Broadband in northern England and southern Scotland (e.g. Cumbria, Lancashire, Dumfries and Galloway etc.) were left without internet access for several days between Friday and Sunday after an unspecified “daisy chain outage” hit several telephone exchanges on the ISPs network.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Users Suffer Email Platform Migration Nightmare

6th April, 2013 (7 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has told angry customers that it’s “extremely sorry” after the ISPs planned migration from their existing Google (Gmail) based email platform to a new Yahoo! webmail alternative (Sky Yahoo! Mail) ended in disaster when user inboxes become flooded with old and deleted messages.

ASA UK Bans Unlimited Claim in Virgin Media Broadband Ad After Sky Moan

27th March, 2013 (5 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has, following two complaints by rival Sky Broadband (BSkyB), told cable operator Virgin Media not to “misleadingly” claim that their service was “unlimited” and with “no caps” if they also imposed restrictions (e.g. Traffic Management) that were “more than moderate“.

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.

UPD Sky UK Extend 3 Months Half Price Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls

15th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today extended its offer of three months half price service for their up to 38Mbps capable superfast broadband (Sky Fibre Unlimited) with free weekend calls, TV and free connection bundle until 28th March 2013.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Migrates Google Email Platform to Yahoo Alternative

13th February, 2013 (7 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband (BSkyB), specifically those that use the ISPs existing Sky Email service, have been advised that they will shortly be migrated to a new Yahoo! based webmail platform (Sky Yahoo! Mail) because “Google is no longer able to provide Sky with an email platform that caters for our requirements“.

UPDATE Sky Broadband UK to Launch Network Level Adult Website Filter

5th February, 2013 (4 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today confirmed that it plans to follow TalkTalk’s sometimes controversial HomeSafe solution by launching its own “whole-home” automatic network level filtering (censorship) service in the UK, which would block access to websites that contain adult content.

Sky Broadband UK Tops 4.23 Million ISP Subscribers

31st January, 2013 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today released their latest results to 31st December 2012 (Q4-2012), which saw the operator increase its growth by adding +132,000 new quarterly fixed line internet access subscribers to reach a total customer base of 4,235,000 (up from +102k added in Q3-2012).

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]).