Yesterday’s rumours that Ntl would be making a move for Virgin Mobile proved to be true with Ntl making an official offer worth £800m for Virgin Mobile.
If the deal goes ahead Ntl will use the Virgin brand to offer internet access, TV and fixed line and mobile telephony. Ntl said it had also held [...]

Telewest very quietly published on its website details of its HDTV plans and also more details about its PVR. Even though Sky recently outlined its plans to launch new sports and movie HDTV channels next year, Telewest has gazumped Sky by trialling HDTV transmissions in South London.
Unlike Sky, Telewest’s service will not be delivered [...]

Telewest broadband yesterday launched blueyonder PCguard, a free security service for all users. PCguard includes a firewall, Anti-virus software, Anti-spyware software, a popup blocker and web filtering/parental control features.The service will be available to all 850,000 blueyonder customers. Unlike security offerings from many other ISPs, new customers will not have to activate or [...]

Following on from NTL’s announcement earlier this week to increase its speeds to 10Mb, Telewest Broadband has just announced plans to shake-up its blueyonder internet services and outlined its capability to go much MUCH faster in the future.
Telewest have increased their broadband speeds across all their tiers with the top tier now reaching 10Mb at [...]

In response to ntl and Telewest launching VoD services, Sky has just extended its online content to also include movies on demand.
Over 200 movies will be available for download and in the future there will also be a dedicated personal media player.
It will be interesting to see how Sky’s responds to the cable companies VoD [...]