Monthly Archives: November 2008

News that the O2 mobile broadband service added nearly 73,000 customers in the third quarter of 2008 has been welcomed by the market. Despite the fact that the UK is entering a recession this was an increase of some 16% on the figure in the second quarter. In total there are now 267,000 broadband customers [...]

Virgin Media customers in Warrington have been invited to apply for 200 places on the company’s trial programme regarding a new 50 MB broadband package. The chosen few will be able to access the new superfast service for two months at no extra cost as Virgin Media looks to the future of its UK service.
The [...]

Rumours are spreading through the City that Carphone Warehouse is looking to spin off its broadband business as a separate entity from the mobile phone operation. It seems as though Charles Dunston, the founder and chief executive of the overall business, is looking to release as much shareholder value as possible from the ever-growing broadband [...]

A number of tests over the last few months seem to indicate that the average download speed in the UK broadband market has fallen to 3.3 Mb per second which is a 10% fall on the high reached in July. There are two trains of thought for this apparent fall in speeds, one being that [...]

Have you ever been stuck miles from home without Internet access, your mobile phone is out of charge and you need to call home?
Well the new Wi-Fi on wheels gadget which is available in the States will actually turn your Chrysler into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot with machines within 100 feet able to logon to [...]

We have seen a number of headlines in the press of late with regard to broadband service expenditure in the UK with some parties suggesting that consumers are either downgrading their service or else looking to reduce their use in the short term. However, there appears to be little evidence of this new trend on [...]

The last few weeks have seen a number of broadband industry headlines comparing the quality of service available through mobile broadband, fixed line broadband and satellite broadband. There is a feeling that with satellite services readily available and no extra investment required we could see some developments in the satellite broadband sector.
However, with the likes [...]

While the debate about whether mobile broadband will eventually replace fixed line broadband continues there is a growing feeling that fixed line broadband is still able to offer a better quality signal. Whether this is partly the reason why mobile broadband operators have hit the fixed line market, or whether they see this as a [...]

In a mobile broadband survey carried out across 16 major UK cities over the last three months it has been revealed that the service provided by T-Mobile was top for uploads, downloads, web browsing and e-mail services.
These independent tests show that T-Mobile continues to lead the way in the UK mobile broadband market offering more [...]