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Virgin Media Business Detail UK £49m Fibre Capacity Deal with Sky Broadband

23rd May, 2013 (12 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has detailed its new £49 million backhaul network capacity deal with BSkyB (Sky Broadband). Under the agreement Virgin will connect around a third of Sky’s unbundled (LLU) local UK telephone exchanges with Sky’s own wholly owned nationwide broadband network.

Sky Offers 3 Months FREE UK Line Rental with Unlimited Broadband

18th May, 2013 (2 Comments)

ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has started offering 3 months free Sky Line Rental with its unlimited broadband package, which saves up to £43.50 off the normal price (£14.50 a month) and means you only have to pay from £10 a month for the broadband and free weekend calls part (£7.50 if you have Sky TV).

OFT Rubber Stamps O2 UK and Sky Broadband Fixed Line ISP Merger

17th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

As widely expected the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today formally “cleared” Sky Broadband’s (BSkyB) £180m+ acquisition of O2 UK and sibling BE Broadband’s fixed line internet and phone customers.

Sky Broadband Tells Staff to Handle Fear of Rupert Murdoch with Sensitivity

15th May, 2013 (6 Comments)

Some of O2 UK’s fixed line home broadband and phone customers are reportedly refusing to be shifted onto the network of new owner Sky Broadband (BSkyB) because it’s partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s infamous News Corporation.

Big UK ISPs Should Make Critical Support Contacts Easier to Find

13th May, 2013 (8 Comments)

At some point nearly all of us, for good or ill, will need to contact our broadband ISP or phone provider but how hard is it to find the correct details and what sort of support services are on offer? ISPreview.co.uk took a long look at ten of the UK’s best known providers to see how they compared.

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.

Sky Adds GBP25 M&S Voucher to 6 Months Free Unlimited Broadband

3rd May, 2013 (3 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has added a £25 M&S Voucher to its current offer of 6 months free unlimited broadband with included weekend calls. In addition new customers who bundle in its Sky TV service will also benefit from a £100 M&S Voucher if they join online.

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).