It's been nearly five months since Sky (BSkyB) revealed the first official details of a forthcoming new broadband service, known as 'Picnic' (original news). Since then Sky has stayed quiet, pending Ofcoms approval of the service; in fact we'd nearly forgotten about it.

Mercifully SkyUser has ended the information draught by publishing further unofficial details, although precise package specifics remain somewhat elusive:


Sadly the modular broadband, TV and phone service still needs a number of ticks from Ofcom before it can proceed. Picnic is also expected to be slightly more expensive than Sky's existing services because it does not REQUIRE their TV package as well.