Broadband Blog

Fibre optic broadband internet could reach download speeds of 100Mbps according to Liv Garfield, BT’s group director of strategy, policy and portfolio. Garfield did, however, say that the regions of the UK that got the broadband facilities first would not climb to those speeds as they are on slower broadband connections. BT are using two [...]

Virgin Media, a leading provider of broadband in the UK, are calling on consumers to ask for misleading advertising about broadband speeds to stop. Virgin boss Richard Branson is backing a call to action on the campaign for transparency about broadband speeds by stopthebroadbandcon.org. Some internet providers are boasting broadband speeds as high as 24Mb [...]

3 Mobile is currently offering a great incentive to sign up for mobile broadband. If you take out a contract with the internet provider then you will be granted three months of full free access to both The Times Online and The Sunday Times Online websites. Okay, so lots of people argue that such news [...]

Virgin Media will make 100Mb broadband internet available in some areas before Christmas 2010, increasing the average speed of internet access for UK broadband users twentyfold. The current norm that internet providers can muster is just over 5Mb according to a report on broadband internet speeds from Ofcom. Earlier in the week, Prime Minister David [...]

BT are on the hunt for more 200 more apprentices to help them roll out broadband internet to 10 million homes and offices across the United Kingdom by 2012. The roll out of fibre optic broadband is costing the telecoms company £2.5 billion, giving it a claim to be one of the most expensive one-off [...]

You don’t have long left to pick up £50 credit from Virgin Media on their broadband, phone and TV bundle packages. The clock is ticking on these combined TV, phone and internet deals and this Sunday (31st October 2010) is the last day you can sign up online. To qualify for the £50 online credit [...]

Broadband has been a major factor in pushing Sky to the brink of 10 million customers in the UK. The broadcasting giant has diversified from its traditional TV business to offer broadband internet deals and home communication to the masses. In this quarter, Sky have added almost 100,000 broadband, phone and TV customers to reach [...]

The number of people connected to the internet via broadband or other means is rapidly increasing according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Internet providers have doubled the number of internet users in the last five years and expect the total number of users online to hit the two billion mark by the end of [...]

Vodafone have rolled-over some of their 3-month-free mobile broadband internet deals if you don’t mind signing up for an 18 month contract. Anyone who subscribes with Vodafone to their Standard, Premium or Ultimate mobile broadband service for 18 months gets a free dongle and the first three months free. The Vodafone Standard mobile broadband package [...]

Anyone who subscribes to fibre optic broadband with Virgin Media will now benefit from a free boost to their broadband upload speeds. Virgin Media broadband users will be able to share files such as photographs and music two times quicker as the speed of upload doubles. Existing customers don’t need to do anything to qualify [...]