Good news for consumers who are thinking about signing up for Virgin Media as the cable giant has rolled out an array of its Winter and Christmas broadband offers – starting as low as £4 for the first three months.
For instance, Virgin Media’s L package which includes speeds up to 10MBps, a free Wi-Fi router, unlimited downloads as well as weekend calls will now cost only £4 per month for the first three months and £13.50 thereafter.
Similarly Virgin Media’s up to 30Mbps and 50Mbps packages have their prices slashes…
Geoff Slaughter - 21 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Have you ever wondered how much money do we spend on communications such as broadband, phone and TV during our whole lifetime?
TalkTalk certainly has. The ISP decided to grab its calculator only to find that on average consumers spent £65,564.94 in a lifetime or £970 per year – which correlated with an average age of 68 years.
The figure mentioned above included roughly all our communication needs such as phone calls, home broadband, text messages (SMS), mobile broadband, insurance, buying and upgrading mobiles, among others.
TalkTalk’s Director of Product Management, Alex…
Edita Lozovska - 21 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Today the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published a shortlist and guidelines as to how it would distribute its £100m Urban Broadband Fund and who may potentially get a slice of the cash.
10 cities have been given the green light to place their bids however only 6 at most will be chosen to get their broadband speeds boosted to become “super-connected” aka have access to 80Mbps to 100Mbps and above.
4 cities have already been selected, including Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff as well as London.
The shortlist…
Chris Mizon - 21 December 2011 | comments. Read more
If you were using Vodafone’s fixed-line broadband, expect to be migrated to PlusNet, as the former decided to eliminate its home internet services for good.
As many of you may recall, Vodafone erased the service from its website, despite speculations that the mobile operator was looking into revamping the product.
Due to lack of publicity as well as fierce competitors setting new standards by the hour, the company decided to leave its home broadband service overboard.
As a quick reminder, Vodafone was offering BT-based unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 8Mbps…
Edita Lozovska - 20 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Residents of Milton Keynes fear not, fibre is on its way – at least to 20,000 homes and businesses within the area, BT has confirmed today.
The telecoms giant confirmed that the Bradwell Abbey exchange is to be upgraded to FTTC (fibre-to-the-cabinet) with FTTP trials taking place at the time of writing.
As a quick reminder, Milton Keynes has been considered a notspot aka a location with limited access to good quality broadband and digital services.
Regarding the FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) pilot scheme – BT has proudly confirmed that 11,000 households and businesses…
Geoff Slaughter - 20 December 2011 | comments. Read more
We all remember the constant news about copper theft that has been plaguing ISPs, however now the Metropolitan Police has teamed up with BT to launch the Waste and Metal Theft Task Force (WMTTF).
According to recent stats, copper cable theft is costing the country roughly £1bn a year (back in 2009 it was £770m) and despite all the efforts to prevent this from happening, it is still a huge problem for the UK.
During the last two weeks an attempt to catch copper thieves was carried out, also known as…
Chris Mizon - 20 December 2011 | comments. Read more
As the whole world is getting ready to use 4G mobile broadband (those who are not using it yet at least), industry insiders warn there might be potential flaws with the oh-so awaited service.
As a quick reminder, the fourth generation would see users turn to LTE-based technology which would potentially bring speeds of 1Gbps to your smartphones or computers.
However now it is thought that too many providers are going to base their products on incompatible bands which could corrupt the service.
A fresh report coming from GSMA’s Wireless Intelligence has…
Geoff Slaughter - 19 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Caltech certainly showed how fast Wide Area Network (WAN) can go when it was able send two-way data at a combined rate of 186Gbps.
The previous record was set back in 2009 and reached 119Gbps.
The California Institute of Technology’s physics team, specialising in high energy, successfully transferred 98Gbps in one direction and 88Gbps in the other over BCNET as well as CANARIE networks between British Columbia’s Victoria and Seattle.
Randall Sobie, member of Caltech’s physics team and research scientist, was quoted as explaining:
“The 100-Gbps demonstration at SC11 is pushing the limits…
Edita Lozovska - 19 December 2011 | comments. Read more
ISPs are to blame as the broadband business is “being built on the back of” illegal downloads said new Sony Music head, Nick Gatfield, during an interview with the Guardian.
In more detail, he said:
“Broadband businesses are being built on the back of illegal filesharing.
“As high-speed broadband becomes ubiquitous the problem is going to get bigger and bigger. We need site-blocking, and it’s an incredibly spurious argument for the ISPs to say that they can’t do it because they can do it and they do do it.”
Broadbandwatcher has previously stated…
Edita Lozovska - 19 December 2011 | comments. Read more
The time has come to set some deadlines, the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) thought and told councils and authorities to submit their local deployment plans by the end of February 2012.
This is because the Department wanted to have an official plan ready by the end of April the coming year.
As a quick reminder, the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office has already put together £530m (which will most likely rise to £830m by 2017) in order to help the majority residing in notspots to gain access…
Edita Lozovska - 16 December 2011 | comments. Read more
