Broadband Blog

Reform Scotland, a think tank based in Scotland, has recommended that the government spend more money to improve the infrastructure of broadband internet access in the country.
As we blogged about just last month, the UK has fallen to 14th in the digital economy rankings of the Economist Intelligence Unit. The think tank says that £200 [...]

TalkTalk, one of the biggies in the world of internet providers, is now offering its Essentials broadband package with six month’s free broadband when they sign up with TalkTalk online.
Customers must sign up for an 18 month package before the end of September to get the first six month’s of their broadband contract absolutely free. [...]

Last week, BE Broadband announced that they will soon provide a landline service to compliment their current broadband service. The killer punch is that internet provider BE Broadband, not long since selected as the best consumer broadband provider by the ISPA, will undercut current prices for BT landline packages.
Apart from the money saved on the [...]

Digital channel and internet provider Sky Broadband has signed a deal with Channel 4 Films for sponsorship of the channel. They will follow in the footsteps of previous successful Channel 4 sponsorship campaigns by Stella Artois and Renault.
We don’t know the exact sum that Sky Broadband has paid for the twelve month deal but it [...]

The Welsh Assembly Government is taking welcome steps to improve the quality of broadband internet access in rural parts of the country in the next few months.
The Broadband Support Scheme is an initiative that will allow individuals and communities in Wales to vie for up to £1,000 to gain access to at least 512Kbps even [...]

You would like to think that the UK would be forging the way when it comes to broadband internet access. Unfortunately, it turns out that we are actually slipping down the chart against 70 countries ranked in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) digital economy listings.
Last year, the UK managed to rank 13th in the list [...]

Well it is happy days for the Finns tomorrow (1st July 2010) as they are set to become the first folk in the world to have the legal right to broadband internet access. The legislation will force internet providers to supply all homes in Finland with at least a 1Mbps broadband internet connection.
Over here in [...]

A hot topic regarding internet deals at the moment is the whole question of what constitutes ‘Unlimited’ broadband. So, with O2 in the headlines, we thought now might be a good time to bring up the issue of what exactly unlimited internet deals might actually mean in practise.
We have been hearing a few murmurs and [...]

Be Broadband have extended their popular 3 months free offer.
Purchase either the Be Unlimited or Be Pro packages on a 12 month contract using the promo code:
3MONTHSFREE
.. and you will get 3 months for free.
Offer Ends: 31st May 2009
Check out all Be Packages
Visit Be Broadband Website

With the competitive dealscurrently  on offer from all the major phone & broadband providers it seemed impossible for anything new to make the news, but Talk Talk’s latest offering has done it.
They’re latest offer gives the Essentials Package for FREE (instead of £6.49) until 2010 to all customers who sign up by the 2nd March [...]