Category: Internet Service Providers

It is that time of year when students are starting to look for new accommodation and squeezing the most from their limited budgets. BT is offering Infinity 1 with a 9 month contract for those who want to have a BT advert style student life.

One month ago BT hinted at a 300 Mbps BT Infinity product and now we know its name - BT Infinity 4.

The last of the big providers has issued its latest financial results and they suggest that Virgin Media is stuck on hold.

Another provider, this time TalkTalk has sent out its notification of price rises for some of its products.

The pattern of retail prices going in the other direction to the wholesale prices that Ofcom regulates continues, and the ball is started by PlusNet who have announced details of changes to their product line up.

While some satellite operators utilising the Tooway based services are having issues, there are other options and a new provider has started to sell services in England and Wales.

The splitting up of BT Retail into two separate businesses will not affect existing customers, but may help to differentiate the products sold and avoid some of the confusion people have particularly in the SME sector when trying to order a service.

While the big headlines have gone to the big BT contracts in the BDUK process, Lincolnshire is delivering on its decision to utilise fixed wireless broadband to improve services in a number of areas.

The latest set of financial results show that Sky is continuing to grow but this is slightly tempered by them only adding 400,000 broadband subscriptions via the acquisition of O2/Be customers, rather than the 520,000 subscribers that O2/Be had at the end of the last quarter.

It is rare for large migration projects to go smoothly, the trick is to catch the problems and fix them before they start costing people money, alas it may be too late with the moving of customer email from the Google platform to Yahoo! at Sky.