tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273329692007-09-21T00:25:35.255+01:00Jeremy TromansBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27332969.post-18361266260550013682007-09-19T18:08:00.000+01:002007-09-19T18:23:50.940+01:00

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

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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

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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

Jeremy Tromanstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27332969.post-43721494925707605222007-09-05T10:46:00.000+01:002007-09-20T10:57:23.385+01:00

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

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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

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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

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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

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As more of our lives become digital, so secure and safe digital storage grows in importance so that precious / business critical files and photos cannot be lost at the mercy of unexpected PC hardware failure. In answer to these growing concerns / needs, BT Total Broadband customers now benefit from an inclusive 5Gb of digital storage and auto backup with all BT Total Broadband products. The

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BT has launched an innovative reward scheme via a unique credit card that offers BT customers an annual discount of up to £75 on their BT telephone / broadband bill. The BT credit card is automatically linked to BT customers telephone / broadband accounts, such that every time the BT credit card is used, a discount is applied at up to 1p per pound spent. Gavin Patterson, MD of Consumer, BT

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Be Broadband has announced that it's customers are enjoying broadband speeds that are on avaerage, a staggering 127% than their nearest competitors, with Be Broadband's fastest member recently reporting download speeds of 24.57Mb (results via Thinkbroadband.com). Graham Wilson of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire was Be's fastest (24.573 meg). Living just 443 metres from his exchange, Graham said: ‘

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Be Broadband (wholly-owned by 02) has recently unbundled exchange number 500, potentially bringing Be Broadband's innovative and technically-advanced UK broadband networks to 33% of UK households at up to 24Mb! ‘We don’t think of broadband as just something to throw in for free. Proper broadband takes continual innovation and focus,’ said Matthew Key, CEO of O2 UK. ‘We are working at unbundling

Jeremy Tromanstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27332969.post-37650054533118673982007-02-08T16:50:00.000Z2007-02-08T16:56:29.227Z

Uma Thurman has been confirmed as the face of Virgin Media's multi-million pound launch campaign. The Oscar-nominated actress fronts the television ads for the largest Virgin branded company in the world. The premier of the TV commercial will be broadcast tonight. Over the course of several different adverts planned for the year Uma persuasively demonstrates the benefits of Virgin Media

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Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED), a major new force in entertainment and communications, launched this morning, pledging to shake up the industry and to offer consumers quality, value, innovative products and outstanding customer service. For the first time, one company will be able to deliver a simple, one-stop solution to meet consumers' entertainment and communications needs, providing

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On the 1st March 2007, Tiscali will commence the national roll out of Tiscali TV in the UK. The launch of Tiscali TV follows the acquisition of the Homechoice IPTV service back in August 2006 and allows Tiscali to add further value to it's existing, highly competitive broadband and telephone bundles. When Tiscali TV goes live, over 40,000 existing Homechoice subscribers will become Tiscali TV

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PlusNet, today celebrates its 10th anniversary in the evolving Internet business. PlusNet, one of the UK’s first ISPs, has enjoyed a reputation for working closely with its customers in order to provide compelling and innovative Internet services. It has used the 10th anniversary to launch two new initiatives to create value for its customers. The tenth-anniversary celebratory offers to

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Orange has re-entered the top five ADSL broadband providers in the UK, joining BT broadband, Pipex broadband, Demon broadband and Virgin.net broadband at the top of the table in terms of technical broadband performance. The fourth quarter Internet Performance Indicator (IPI) Report from Epitiro – the UK’s leading Customer Experience Management (CEM) provider for Internet access services –

Jeremy Tromanstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27332969.post-44036998298057531932007-02-01T14:07:00.000Z2007-02-01T14:10:18.702Z

British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC published results for the six months ended 31st December 2006 highlight the highest overall customer growth in six years, with 432,000 new customer additions in the second quarter alone. The company's results also feature 'good progress' with Sky Broadband, gross bookings of 343,000 and 259,000 activated customers by 28th January 2007. Alongside this, the Sky

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The Advertising Standards Authority recently upheld complaints against Be Broadband (owned by O2) in respect of an advert for their Be Unlimited unbundled 24Mb (ADSL2) service. Complaint A press ad, for Be Un Limited, was headlined "up to 24 Meg broadband". NTL and a member of the public objected to the ad because they believed that the headline speed would be unattainable to most users. They

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Ofcom today published research into the niche Internet Service Provider (ISP) market. The research focuses on smaller ISPs, typically those serving companies with fewer than 30 employees or a small number of residential customers. The research was commissioned during 2006 following requests from industry stakeholders. The smaller ISP market has a collective turnover of £1.15 billion per year. It

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According to the Telegraph, Virgin Media's head of internal communications, James Weekly, offered some brutally honest perspectives of past customer service to fellow internal communications professionals at the Royal Society of Arts this month. With particular reference to NTL, Mr Weekly referred to the previously poor customer service and other challenges faced by Virgin Media since a complex

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Aligning the services of NTL, Telewest and Virgin.net, Virgin Media will soon launch, bringing their respective TV, broadband, mobile and telephony services under the combined Virgin Media brand. A flavour of the new suite of Virgin Media services is available via a sneak preview PR site - www.knowfirst.co.uk, along with the opportunity to win one of 10 invites to their 'glitzy star-studded'

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According to analysis carried out by SimplySwitch.com (a price comparison service), broadband prices are now lower than those for dial-up Internet access. Dial-up Internet access has been effectively priced out of the market by the flood of Internet users taking up faster and more convenient broadband services. Currently over 40% of UK households connect to the Internet via broadband and it's no

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Working with National Grid Wireless, Intel® Solutions Services and Warwick District Council, Pipex Wireless launches second commercial trial. Pipex Wireless is to launch a second commercial trial of its WiMAX services, working with National Grid Wireless, Warwick District Council and Intel® Solutions Services. The trial will involve three sites in the Leamington Spa and Warwick area, and will

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BT Business delivers Total Broadband to UK SMEs. BT today announced BT Business Total Broadband, its most complete broadband package, specifically designed just for small businesses. Powered by business-grade broadband with download speeds of up to 8Mb 1, BT Business customers now get more value for money through a free Broadband Voice additional line offer 2 , which gives customers capped

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ISP Finalists Announced For The 9th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards - The 2007 ISPAs The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA UK) - the UK's leading Internet trade association - can today reveal the finalists in the ISP Division of The 2007 ISPAs - The 9th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards in association with Epitiro. Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, will be the

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