All Posts Tagged With: "Broadband News"
UK ISPs Sign Joint Targeted Ads Deal
Three of the UK’s largest ISPs made a major joint announcement yesterday that didn’t seem to cause as many ripples as I expected, as I thought more sites would pick up on the potential privacy issues.
BT, Virgin Media and Talk Talk announced that they had signed exclusive deals with advertising technology company Phorm to use [...]
BT Fon Launched: The World’s Largest Wi-Fi Community
Ever since BT invested in Fon, I’ve been on the lookout for the launch of a joint BT/Fon service in the UK, and as expected, word of the launch of ‘BT Fon‘ , creating the world’s largest Wi-Fi community, has just hit the wires.
The partnership between BT and Fon is very ingenious, bringing together BT’s [...]
Virgin Media Introduce Speed Caps
Virgin Media are introducing speed capping measures that for users who download large amounts from the Net during peak hours. Peak hours have been defined as 4pm to midnight which is much longer than for most other ISPs, who consider 6pm to 10pm to be the peak.
Virgin claim that only 5% of downloaders will [...]
BroadbandGenie Relaunches - Find The Best Broadband Deal
Despite saying that I wouldn’t respond to any requests for plugs by email, I’m making an exception in this case as one of my friends is running the company.
BroadbandGenie has just launched a brand new spanking site. It’s so new, you can still smell the paint? What is Broadband Genie you ask? Well, the [...]
Poll Results: England To Win World Cup
I'm not quite sure why, but even after two horrible performances England have overtaken Brazil as favourites to win the World CUp in the poll I've been running.
I can understand Brazil losing votes as I think the aura around the samba team has gone after two very ordinary games, but there is no way [...]
New Poll: Who Do You Think Will Win The World Cup?
I’ve just created a new poll: ‘Who Will Win The World Cup?’.
After the first batch of games Argentina are looking very good and I’m still backing them. England were shocking, but I don’t think we’ve had a good opening game since 1998 when Scholes had a blinder as he tried to prove to the [...]
Free Broadband In The UK?
The BBC claims that Carphonewarehouse is planning on offering free broadband access in the UK to users of its land line Talk Talk service.
This would be quite an interesting approach. I don't imagine it will be a very fast service if it does appear, and it could cause quite a stir in the market. I [...]
ntl:Telewest Merge With Virgin Mobile - Customers To Be Enticed With Fourplay
ntl:Telewest have finally reached agreement with Virgin Mobile over the
terms of a takeover offer, which values the mobile operator at £962.4m
($1.62bn), together with an agreement to re-brand all consumer operations with the Virgin brand in the future. The combined company will have revenues of over £3.9bn which will put it on a par with Sky [...]
Be To Launch ADSL2+ Across The UK - Speeds 'Up To' 22Mbps
High-speed broadband provider Be has secured a £24.5m investment that
will enable it to begin a nationwide installation of ADSL2+ services of
up to 22Mbps.
So far, the ISP has enabled or begun enabling 52 exchanges in
London and will soon begin moving its kit into Birmingham and
Manchester. It aims to cover 50 per cent of the population by [...]
The genie is finally out of the bottle!
Broadband Genie which is the best site for keeping up to date with the latest and cheapest broadband deals has started a blog which is starting to take shape.
I think the broadband market in 2006 is increasingly going to become a switching market as new customer growth starts to trail off, so sites like broadband [...]
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