Category: Internet Service Providers

As part of its Q2 results Sky has announced its fibre service will launch in April 2012, offering up to 40 Mbps.

Plusnet has announced an expansion to its fibre trials, with new pricing.

For people in the Hull and East Yorkshire area, Karoo has now launched its fibre based products that start at £35 per month.

Virgin Media suffered a three hour outage to their broadband platform that also affected leased lines and some Virgin websites and phone systems.

The upgrades for Virgin Media 50 Mbps customers just got a little more interesting, with the news they will upgrade to the 120 Meg tier.

It seems the bundle experiment of offering a landline and broadband service is over at Vodafone, all existing customers are being moved to Plusnet as of 7th February 2012.

It looks like BT has been reading up on how other countries have pushed adoption of FTTC and FTTH on consumers who perhaps don't necessarily feel they need to adopt faster packages if they are already managing over 6 Mbps.

The Be bonding solution that joins two ADSL2+ lines together to give an up 44 Mbps service, has had its installation fee removed, and a three month free service promotion is in place.

BT is offering business users the opportunity to take a full fibre service fro a six month period for free in the parts of Milton Keynes where it is available.

Ian Livingstone has told the Prime Minister and members of the cabinet that it expects to deliver high-speed 100Mbps broadband to most of the country whilst slow-spots will be nearly eradicated.