Broadband Business

The Broadband Forum has today announced a significant increase in IPTV viewing figures around the world. While IPTV has not really caught on in the UK as yet, there has been a significant increase in many areas of the world. Of particular interest is the North American IPTV market which more than doubled in 2008 [...]

While the broadband industry as a whole has performed very well during these difficult economic times we are starting to see signs of consumer unrest with regards to long-term contracts which lock-in customers for anything up to 12 months and beyond. Many of the major players in the broadband industry are reporting increased popularity for [...]

No sooner had news of Tiscali’s financial worries hit the newswires than a number of UK broadband operators were immediately trying to entice confused Tiscali customers to their operations. Be Broadband appears to have been one of the first out of the blocks with a £40 credit offer to those transferring their broadband account from [...]

BSkyB has walked away from the potential acquisition of Tiscali’s UK broadband operations after the two parties were apparently unable to agree a price. Tiscali had expected in the region of £500 million but it is believed that BSkyB was unwilling to pay more than £350 million. Consequently the talks were aborted which has had [...]

As the Tiscali empire continues to be broken up, the management have expressed a wish to conclude the sale of the Tiscali UK broadband business by the end of March 2009. The company has already sold off the International Network division leaving the way clear for a complete sale of the UK operation. So who [...]

Even as the recession continues to spread around the world, UK broadband providers are rolling out some of the most attractive broadband offers we have seen to date. It seems as though even in these most difficult of business environments the broadband industry, both fixed line and mobile broadband, is performing well ahead of many [...]

In a further sign of things to come in the future broadband market it has been revealed that Orange broadband has tied up with HP Compaq and Toshiba to offer connectivity services for two laptops in their range. The company has also invested substantial amounts of money in creating a new mobile broadband dongle manufactured [...]

A new OFCOM report yesterday cast doubt on the broadband speeds available throughout the UK. This appears to be an ongoing issue whereby the maximum speeds advertised in the press and other areas of the media for many people bear no resemblance to the actual speeds they will receive. It appears that customers subscribing to [...]

As we enter 2009 the UK high street is starting to resemble something of a ghost town with up to 1600 retail companies on the verge of going out of business. While there has been much mention of the economic downturn in the UK and around the world it would appear that broadband has played [...]

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 [...]