Category: Internet Service Providers

The BE Wholesale arm of Telefonica UK is to change its name to O2 Wholesale, as part of a move to strength the business arm of O2.

TalkTalk is extending the options for fibre services, with the new 80/20 FTTC product being available for £15 extra a month, compared to the £10 extra that bought you a 40/2 service.

Orange who have moved off of their LLU network back to a BT Wholesale based service, look to be trying to attract more customer numbers again.

It would appear that some of the individual backhaul links for exchanges offering Sky LLU services may be congested, resulting in poor gaming or internet streaming video.

Telefonica UK who own O2 and Be has reported another decline in broadband customer numbers, bucking the trend across Europe where Telefonica is generally still adding customers to its network.

Orange Home Broadband which has been losing customers for some years appears to be continuing on a path back towards growth, with its customer numbers holding level at 713,000 in the last quarter.

No broadband provider can be perfect all the time, but it seems after a few days of problems and various attempts to fix an issue, users of Be and O2 are still suffering packet loss.

Zen has had eight years of being high rated by customers in Which? surveys, showing that its not just the big providers that receive such accolades.

Tesco has sold broadband and telephone services for some time, and has just started a promotion where the ADSL2+ broadband element costs just £2.50 a month for the first 12 months.

Over the weekend it has emerged that Vodafone is considering offering over 700 million pounds for Cable and Wireless Worldwide, who own Thus and provide wholesale LLU services.