Monthly Archives: June 2010

BT Broadband has today announced a deal with the Olympic Broadcasting Services Company which will see BT’s fibre-optic network used to relay information from 21 Olympic venues in 2012 back to the main media centre. The fibre-optic network will ensure that millions of viewers around the world will be able to watch the Olympics 2012 [...]

As competition in the UK broadband sector continues to increase there are a number of special offers available on the market today. For a limited time only TalkTalk is willing to waive the £29.99 connection fee for customers signing up to its Essentials or Pro packages.
The Essentials package costs just £6.49 a month and offers [...]

A report by the European Commission casts a very disappointing light on the UK broadband sector after a period of consolidation during June 2009. After this period of consolidation the UK is now dominated by three major ISPs each claiming at least 20% of the market. While overall broadband penetration in the UK is now [...]

Don’t worry this is only a made up headline and is never going to happen but can you imagine what would happen to the UK economy and UK consumers in event that the UK broadband network collapsed?
The very fact that this headline would have injected massive concern into UK consumers and UK businesses is evidence [...]

O2 broadband has opened up a new chapter in the history of the UK broadband sector with its “Niggles and Narks campaign” which effectively allows consumers to get their grievances off their chest. A recent survey by the company found that one of the biggest daily frustrations is slow Internet connections which came ahead of [...]

The introduction of video on demand to Sky TV, Sky broadband and Skype HD TV subscribers, is a major development for the UK online arena. There has been talk for well over 10 years of a closer relationship between media companies and ISPs in the UK, and around the world, but only now are we [...]