Category: Internet Service Providers

Everyone is used to the best incentives on broadband only being available to new customers and with these incentives sometimes worth £200 it is no surprise. TalkTalk though for a while via its fixed price plan promises was a bit different in letting people sign up to new lower priced offers but this is changing.

Full fibre a plenty is the vision and British Fibre Networks are making some grand claims about what their ambition is i.e. to connect 35% of new build homes by 2020.

A hybrid mixture of TV white space and 5 GHz wireless technology is bringing up to 30 Mbps speeds to an area with a 6km radius around Llantilio Crossenny.

There are going to be parties in the streets this weekend as Openreach is scaling back its G.fast ambitions.

The latest results from Virgin Media have been published and reveal growth in the number of broadband and video customers along with continued network expansion.

With PlusNet now offering fixed price contracts two of the major broadband providers are now offering customers the stability of no changes in the line rental and broadband costs for the minimum term of their contract.

Hyperoptic is the second largest full fibre operator in the United Kingdom and with plans to expand to five million premises by 2025 which is a more than ten fold expansion they have secured £250 million to allow them to meet this target.

Vodafone may have tweaked its broadband prices a little but the addition of a choice of a tech gift worth £89.99 to £199.99 more than offsets the change in the offer price.

Airband has secured additional funding to allow it to expand its footprint by another 50,000 premises so they can enjoy the providers superfast services and exploit the RuralOptic product.

Openreach has announced that as the result of a positive partnership between the London Borough of Bexley and Openreach they will be bringing 25,000 premises of FTTP via the Fibre First programme to parts of the borough.