News - March - 2009
04th Mar, 2009 09:10 AM
BT has hit back at yesterdays moan by rival broadband ISP TalkTalk, in which the operator was attacked over its use of rolling contracts (here). TalkTalk warned that, unless a BT customer notified the operator of their intent to leave, they would automatically be signed up to another lengthy new contract.
03rd Mar, 2009 13:57 PM
Ofcom has officially given BT the regulatory pricing freedom it had been hoping for. The move allows BT to deploy its next generation fibre optic (Fibre to the Premise/Cabinet) based broadband network and price wholesale services without any regulatory intervention.
03rd Mar, 2009 09:10 AM
Business ISP Easynet Connect has launched a range of new no minimum term (i.e. penalty free 30-day notice period) broadband packages. It's hoped that the move will encourage more businesses, which don’t want the financial commitments required by long-term contracts, to signup:
03rd Mar, 2009 09:09 AM
UK broadband ISP Freedom2Surf (Tiscali) has launched a new Refer a Friend scheme in which customers can earn cash for recruiting new sign ups. For every new customer who signs up for a 12 months contract, a cash gift of up to £50 is paid to the recommender:
03rd Mar, 2009 09:09 AM
UK ISP TalkTalk (The Carphone Warehouse) has warned that thousands of BT's customers could find themselves being unwittingly and unfairly automatically tied into another full term contract.
03rd Mar, 2009 09:04 AM
Comparison site broadband.co.uk has released its latest anecdotal monthly broadband speed testing results for February 2009, which show that Virgin Media continues to hold its top position with an average download speed of 6.127Mbps (6.018Mbps in Jan'09).
03rd Mar, 2009 09:00 AM
Small UK ISP All Fast Access has unexpectedly ceased trading as of 1st March 2009. The website for its parent provider Turbo Solutions has also vanished, leaving only a short note about "no longer trading to new customers":
02nd Mar, 2009 13:55 PM
UK ISP Pipex (Tiscali) has today launched a range of new business broadband packages offering faster upstream (upload) connection speeds. The services are all based off ADSL2+ (up to 24Mbps downstream) technology and promote upstream performance of 'up to' 2.5Mbps.
02nd Mar, 2009 13:53 PM
Point Topic has estimated that there could be over 4.4 Million British homes and businesses on high-speed fibre optic broadband connections within just five years time. That's about 20% of the 22 million broadband lines (currently over 17m) expected in the UK by late 2013.
02nd Mar, 2009 13:09 PM
UK ISP NewNet has cut the price of its Broadband ND Home services to new customers, including its ND 40 Meg (40Mbps) package, which drops from £39.98 to £34.95 per month.
02nd Mar, 2009 08:08 AM
It’s a bitterly cold winter’s morning and I’m trapped, stuck in an old farmhouse style hotel by heavy snowfall following last night’s business trip into the local town. I haven’t bothered to ask the receptionist about Internet access, it’s clear from the pungent smell of mildew, rotting wood and apparent lack of a working phone line that the online revolution has somehow gone unnoticed here.
02nd Mar, 2009 07:51 AM
T-Mobile UK's technical director, Emin Gurdenli, has hinted in a video interview with ZDNet's Senior Reporter, David Meyer, that the operator will soon upgrade its HSPA based Mobile Broadband (3G) network to work at downstream speeds of up to 14.4Mbps. That is the maximum HSPA can achieve.
01st Mar, 2009 08:06 AM
Ofcom is widely expected to approve BT's £1.5 billion programme to rollout fibre-based (Fibre to the Premise/Cabinet), super-fast broadband to as many as 10 million homes by 2012 (Bt Reveals Major £1.5bn Next-Gen Fibre Broadband Plans) on Tuesday of this coming week. The move will outline a new set of regulations, effectively allowing BT to make a return on its investment without fear of aggressive pro-competition measures.
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