Firing its first salvo into the broadband price war, Tesco's carved the arse out of its broadband fees, bringing them all the way down to just £2 a month for 12 months. Even better, if you're a Tesco Mobile customer, you can bag the same for absolutely free, well, plus line rental. Read More >>
Featured comment by HelloMyNamesTom:
"I fucking hate the word "unlimited" we were on 20mb/s (unlimited) broadband until sky told my mum that theirs was better because it was unlimited and ..." More »
It seems BT's on a Sky-seeking rampage. It's announced that BT Sport, which will have live Premiership Rugby, live Premier League Football, UFC, Moto GP, and Red Bull TV among others, will be available free to BT Broadband or Infinity customers. Read More >>
Featured comment by tifosiMac:
"I have no experience with BT and their broadband but I do know Sky are hideously overpriced for what they offer. If I wanted the full Sky package incl..." More »
Did you know John Lewis did broadband? No, neither did the rest of the planet. And that's why if you buy anything with an internet connection -- be it a printer, tablet or laptop -- the department store will gift you six-whole-months of free broadband. Read More >>
Virgin isn't exactly a student of laissez-fairebroadband, instead choosing to actively 'traffic-manage' its customers. It's just rolled out a new system of traffic management, and whilst it leads to some theoretically marginal improvements for consumers, it's the most complicated sonofabitch you're ever gonna see. But more than that, it's a demonstration of how out-of-touch some ISPs really are. Read More >>
Featured comment by matt.sokolinski:
"And how is that contract term fair to the user?? If I dont like the change, I cant do anything about it because I'll get early termination fee and god..." More »
Sky's just made a massive power-play for the UK's broadband market. Not content with being a middling player, it's just bought both O2 and BE Broadband, propelling it into second place in the UK broadband rankings, with 4.7 million subscribers, and leapfrogging Virgin Media. Read More >>
Next time you whinge about your slow-arse internet, spare a thought for a bunch of British farmers who have had to build, test, and install their own fibre network this year — from scratch. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"Oh it's a good thing alright, I don't see it pushing BT much because its simply not economically viable for a company looking to make a profit. Probab..." More »
US billionaire John Malone, head of international cable TV company Liberty Global, is looking to buy Virgin Media. The now-profitable TV and broadband company is said to be valued at around the £15bn mark. Read More >>
Featured comment by mysticusa:
""No, they laid their previous infrastructure and came within a hair of going bust"
That is because just investing without care? and cant be attribu..." More »
Here's an interesting move from BT. While most others are complaining there's an issue with the amount of data we're all rapidly consuming, enforcing traffic shaping and data caps on us, BT says there is no problem, and its put its money where its mouth is. Now you can get "Totally Unlimited" broadband even on the cheaper end -- no data caps to be seen. Read More >>
Your Sky "broadband" reduced to a snail's pace recently? You're not the only one -- Sky's been forced to admit that it's totally over-sold its broadband in quite a few areas of Britain, meaning far too many of us are trying to force data down the pipes, basically reducing everything to a crawl. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"Interference is more likely on the incoming line than on the Ethernet. It might be sky but none of their throttling should take you to unusable territ..." More »
Our illustrious chancellor George Osborne is a man of the people. Honest. In his mini-budget speech today, he announced a whole raft of new, smaller cities that'll finally get to experience that super-fast broadband that us city mice already know and love, proving once and for all that he cares about things outside London and his country estate. Read More >>
Hold on to your hats everyone, we have liftoff. British Telecom's just unveiled a proof-of-concept network, here in the sunny UK no less, that's running at 10Gbps. Yeah, that's right. Broadband at 10 freaking gigabits per second -- internet so fast it's just plain pointless. Read More >>
Featured comment by albe:
"Not the same but if you've a smartphone theres a BT app BT Smart Talk that lets you use any wireless connection as a route to calls at your landline c..." More »
Many customers have found that the promised Usain Bolt-like performance of Virgin broadband has actually been distinctly James Corden-like in the real world. Over the last few weeks, some customers have been complaining that a crippled network has allegedly rendered browsing stalwarts such as streaming 240p video on YouTube an impossible, stuttering mess. Read More >>
Featured comment by PrinterElf:
"HDDs are faster than your 120Mb/s connection, and they're faster than you need to be able to stream the data to play it back again, so where's the iss..." More »
A survey of broadband speeds across the UK has found some enormous differences in average speed, with average street connection speeds varying from just 0.13mbps all the way up to a whopping 70.9mbps. Read More >>
Featured comment by unuspromulti:
"The first thing I checked on my last 2 house moves was if it was in a cable area.
*I do work for VMB so it's crazy cheap but I couldn't live somewh..." More »
Today's "superfast" broadband speeds might well be rather impressive, but they may soon be obliterated by new developments with could see 20 and even 40 gigabit connections offered through today's fibre connections. Read More >>
Featured comment by JoeyG410:
"I live close to a town, it's not country side as it's a full estate with brand new houses! probebly around 200 houses within the mile, but I gave up h..." More »
Troubled internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to help install a new undersea cable linking the US and his adopted country of New Zealand, which would be paid for in part by his new piracy venture Me.ga -- and could eventually subsidise broadband for New Zealanders. Read More >>