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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Sky - half price installation & £10 online credit

September is a great time to sign-up with Sky Broadband. From 17th - 30th September and for any Sky package taken out (not just broadband), installation is half-price (£15) and new customers will recieve a £10 credit when signing up online.

The Sky Broadband network is now available to 70% of the UK, bringing significant savings to those wishing to bundle their Sky TV with telephone and broadband. Sky Broadband offers speeds of up to 16Mb and when bundled, offers an effective broadband price of between Free and £10 per month, along with a free wireless modem (worth £50) and a years subscription to McAfee Internet Security.

Sky Broadband

Labels: general-broadband-news, sky-broadband

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

New Orange broadband services launched

Orange have today launched three new broadband deals - Home Max (£24), Home Select (£20) and Home Starter (£12). Home Max and Home Select are unlimited 8Mb wireless broadband deals featuring the Orange Livebox wireless modem, along with a second line for voip telephone calls. The extra £4 cost of Home Max gives inclusive telephone line rental and inclusive evening and weekend UK calls.

Priced at just £12 per month, Orange broadband Home Starter offers download speeds of 2Mb with a monthly download linmit of 6Gb. This broadband deal also includes evening and weekend UK landline calls.

Further information:
Orange Broadband

Labels: general-broadband-news, orange-broadband, wireless-broadband

Monday, September 10, 2007

AOL Broadband giving away 160,000 free laptops

AOL Broadband has recently announced an exciting Free Laptop Offer, where 160,000 Dell Laptop PC's will be given Free to 160,000 subscribers to AOL Wireless Broadband plus. Whilst this offer is limited to 160,000, AOL reported that 50,000 people registered for a free laptop before the official launch date at the beginning of September.

Whats included?

- Free Dell laptop (Intel Celeron 540 processor), 1GB memory, 80GB hard disk
- Built in Wi-Fi and Microsoft Vista Home
- Free Netgear Wireless router
- Wireless broadband connection up to 8Mbps
- 40GB download limit
- Free connection / migration
- 24 month contract
- £19.99 a month, subject to taking AOL Talk Pay As You Go subscription
- £10 surcharge for those not connected to an AOL broadband unbundled exchange
- Upgrades to laptop available
- Delivery charge of £14.99 on laptop
- Evenings and Weekends call package raises price to £22.49 a month
- Talk Unlimited gives a total of £24.99.
- Opt out of the compulsory calls bundle for £29.99

The obvious question that many are asking is - what's the catch? It is likely that AOL will cover the costs associated with this offer via telephone call revenue and it has been suggested that Dell are offering some subsidies in return for the anticipated PC upgrade fee's as subscribers opt for improved memory, upgraded processors etc.

AOL Wireless Broadband

Labels: aol-broadband, general-broadband-news, wireless-broadband

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

AOL launches new wireless broadband packages

AOL has recently updated it's broadband offerings, with the removal of the old Platinum and Silver packages in favour of their new Wireless Broadband and Wireless Broadband Plus.

AOL's new wireless broadband packages both offer speeds of up to 8Mb, a free wireless router, free connection and free security, along with inclusive weekend and evening talk options (at no extra cost). Another key change to AOL broadband has been the removal of their unlimited downloads feature in favour of download limits of 10Gb (Wireless) and 40Gb (Wireless plus). Both AOL Wireless and AOL Wireless Plus require customers to sign an 18 month contract.

AOL Wireless is priced at £14.99 per month, although customers who fall outside of AOL's LLU network will need to pay an extra £5 per month. Non AOL LLU customers subscribing to AOL Wireless Plus are required to pay a £10 subsidy.

For further information on the new AOL Wireless Broadband packages:
AOL Wireless Broadband

Labels: aol-broadband, general-broadband-news, wireless-broadband

Monday, September 03, 2007

BT - UK’s most popular supplier of broadband

Following the Epitro survey in July that identified BT as having the UK's best performing ADSL broadband service, it's only natural that today, BT should become the UK's first broadband provider to pass the four million customer mark. This significant milestone further strengthens BT Broadbands claim to being the UK's most popular supplier of broadband.

In June 2002, BT Retail could lay claim to just 172,000 broadband customers and it has taken just five years to accelerate this figure to four million...that's one new broadband customer joining BT every 40 seconds or 2000 new customers each day, with the last one million customers joining BT in the last 10 months alone!

BT Retail chief executive Ian Livingston said: “Four million customers is a great achievement in such a short time. Broadband has proved to be one of the most popular new services ever seen. It is already delivering next generation television, inclusive free phone calls in High Definition sound and great value mobile calls. Broadband can provide so many more services than just Internet surfing and it has become central to many people’s lives and businesses. Customers want to take advantage of the potential of broadband and need a high quality, reliable service – that’s why BT is the UK’s most popular broadband service.”

BT Total Broadband

Labels: bt-broadband, general-broadband-news

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Sky Broadband reaches 70% of UK

British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC's results for the 12 months ended 30th June 2007 reported that the Sky Broadband LLU network (local loop unbundled) now covers 70% of UK households. This coverage was achieved a full six months ahead of plan. At the end of the year the Company recorded 716,000 broadband customers.

Sky Broadband

Labels: general-broadband-news, sky-broadband

Friday, July 06, 2007

BT Wi-Fi reaches 35,000 hotspots

With each of the BT Total Broadband services offering 250 inclusive monthly Wi-Fi minutes, it's significant for for those who require mobile broadband access that BT broadband customers can now access BT Wi-Fi via a staggering 35,000 global hotspots.

BT Openzone offers 2000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and Ireland that are directly managed by BT, along with 13 Wireless Cities.

Chris Bruce, general manager of BT Openzone, comments: “Now in our fifth year, our customers have access to a quarter of the world’s total hotspots to work, talk and play wherever they are and our roaming usage figures demonstrate people are already taking advantage of this across the globe. A consistent user experience ensures it’s easy for anyone to experience the benefits of Wi-Fi, whether they’re in Cape Town airport or a Hilton hotel in Berlin - and our site partners are telling us that it really makes a difference."

BT Total Broadband

Labels: bt-broadband, voip, wifi-broadband, wimax-broadband

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