Category: Internet Service Providers

After having built the core 103km metro fibre ring around York, Fujitsu look set to also carry out the work pushing this network into peoples homes.

Sky offers usually run for a fairly long time, but there is a short term sale giving buyers the choice of a £100 voucher or a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 tablet in addition to the usual free broadband and 50% off the TV package.

They have enjoyed the culture, watched World War Z being filmed, raced around the track and counted ballot papers and now Glasgow is to be the next place where Hyperoptic will take their FTTB service.

Hyperoptic has gone live with its FTTB service in Cardiff and the first users are already posting impressive speed tests.

While we've known for a few weeks about Virgin Media and a FTTP network in a Cambridgeshire village a few more details are now surfacing.

A new build development may just possibly have the cheapest FTTH service in the UK at £4.95 a month, but the trend for using voice line rental to mask the true costs continues.

The sign that confidence is improving in the ability for UK firms to raise funding for broadband ventures is demonstrated by the moves for Gigaclear to go public.

We think this is the first time a provider has used a free fibre based broadband offer to tempt in new customers, but Sky looks keen to attract a lot more customers.

TalkTalk has brought its shopping vouchers back after a short gap and increased the offer period on its TV services to six months.

BT has tweaked the ever present Sainsbury's gift cards, with ADSL2+ based services qualifying for a £75 card and Infinity a £125 card.