All Posts Tagged With: "Broadband News"
Tiscali LLU Plans - dual pricing strategy?
Tiscali yesterday made posted details on their 2005-2007 plan, which included some interesting information on their Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) plans:
Committing EUR90m/£61m to LLU in the UK over three years
Will be spent on a ’selective unbundled network’ i.e. cherry picking the most attractive areas
27 Exchanges have been ordered so far
This cherry picking approach seems to [...]
14Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Broadband under a tenner: UKonline launch £9.99 512Kb ADSL
The UK broadband market went through an important psychological barrier today when UKOnline cut the price of its uncapped 512Kb service to below the magic £10, well £9.99 per month to be exact.
UKonline also reduced the price of its unlimted 2Mb service to £19.99 per month, and it’s 8Mb service to £29.99 per month.
I [...]
Broadband Deals: Telewest increases blueyonder 256Kb to 512Kb at no cost
I only discovered this change this morning on the Digital Spy Forums. In Mid May Telewest will be increasing the speed of its entry level 256Kb product to 512Kb, with the price remaining at £17.99.
The service will remain uncapped, which matches AOL’s uncapped product, which is the only other offer that provides the same [...]
Broadband News: BT connects 5m broadband customers
Broadband penetration in the UK has really taken off in the last six months. BT has announced that it is to connect the five millionth wholesale broadband customer within the next few days, meeting its own target a year earlier than expected.
Over one million connections were added in just the last months - one new [...]
Broadband News: Easynet will launch ADSL2+ services in 2005
Easynet announced last week that they will carry out a trial of ADSL2 and ADSL2+ technologies allowing speeds of up to 24Mbps, with the full launch of services in before the end of 2005.
The service will be based on the existing LLU kit used by Easynet which already has the ADSL2 and ADSL2+ capabilities built [...]
Digital UK Driven By Net And TV
The UK’s adoption of digital TV and broadband has helped make it the fourth most digitally-savvy nation in Europe, according a report by Jupiter Research.
But the UK still lags in terms of broadband speeds compared to others.
The most digitally sophisticated Europeans, in terms of use of digital goods such as mobiles, TV, net and cameras, [...]
Broadband Deals: Latest offers from Tiscali
1Mb is fast becoming the standard access speed for Broadband in the UK. Further signs of this were seen when last week Tiscali scrapped their 256k service and lowered the price of their 512k service from £19.99 to £15.99, making it their entry-level product and also offering two new 1Mb products
2GB cap/£15.99
15GB cap/£19.99
For information [...]
21Mar2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Broadband Speed Test
Ever wondered what broadband line speed you are really getting? Are you paying for 8Mb, but you think you may actually only be getting 4Mb?
If so, then you can use the free Broadband Speed Test below to find your true broadband speed.
How It Works
Start the test by clicking the big button in [...]
Telewest signs partnership with Zero Knowledge Systems to provide online security
Telewest announced that it had signed a long term agreement with Zero-Knowledge Systems (ZKS), a leading provider of online security services to ISPs, to provide comprehensive Internet security tools to its blueyonder broadband customers. The service will be known as blueyonder PCguard.
74% of blueyonder customers said they were worried about Internet security and 41% [...]
UK Broadband Market Share Over 40%
In the latest statistics released by the National Statistics office 41% of connections were found to have an always on connection, as opposed to 22.4% 12 months earlier.
The split for UK Internet connections is shown below:
41% use an always on connection, e.g. broadband, leased line etc
32% have free access or a pay per minute dial-up [...]
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