Thousands of Customers to Be Affected by Sky Price Hikes Starting in August, Sky has said it will be increasing prices on both Sky TV and broadband services. This is set to affect thousands of customers. A Sky spokesperson has noted, “This is not an additional price...
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Broadband & TV – Stay Available During Covid-19 Pandemic?
The coronavirus is affecting us all in every area of our lives, including in services that are available or not, during the pandemic. Social distancing and self-isolation have made many of us stay home in lockdown during the viral infection. This is a time when we...
Will the UK’s Broadband Services Hold Up During the Coronavirus?
That’s a question we’ve all been asking in the last couple of months. Back in March, the government announced that everyone should work from home, if at all possible. With this announcement, everyone wondered if the broadband services would be able to manage that...
Ofcom Requiring Companies to Notify Customers of Best Deals
Ofcom, the communications regulator in the UK, is now requiring phone, pay-tv and broadband companies, to notify their customers when their current contract ends. Companies will also be required to let customers know how much they could save by signing up to a new...
A Million Broadband Customers to Benefit from Free Broadband from Virgin Media
Free Vigin Media Broadband Upgrade Virgin Media is about to make about a million broadband customers happy with a free upgrade to one of the company’s ultrafast broadband packages. Their broadband customers can expect an average 108Mb broadband speed with the upgrade....
Haggling with Broadband Providers Could Save You Money
According to a recent survey by Which?, broadband customers who haggle with their broadband service providers could save an average of £120 a year. Even so, most have never try. The survey included about 5,000 participants, which asked broadband customers how much...
Can Labour’s Broadband Plan Radically Change Young People’s Lives?
Research has shown that young people in deprived areas have a difficult time getting online and staying connected. Schools’ IT systems are also lacking due to poor design and lack of funds. Colleges, too, have a hard time managing their IT systems. Many people who...
Virgin Media Joins Vodafone in 5-Year Mobile Phone Network Deal
Virgin Media Joins Vodafone in 5-Year Deal Virgin Media has linked up with Vodafone UK, after not renewing its agreement with long-time partner BT owned EE. Back in 2017, BT and Virgin Mobile agreed to extend their agreement which allowed Virgin Media to run a MVNO....
Fastest broadband in my area
Fastest broadband internet speed is the demand of every person. Whether you need to stream online, play video games, do some business or want to enjoy uninterrupted browsing on the internet. Choosing the right internet speed that perfectly suits your need is, however,...
The Truth about Cheap Unlimited Broadband
How much of broadband in the UK is really unlimited,
Is your broadband speed slow? want a faster speed?
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Majority of customers only keep landlines for broadband
Majority of customers only keep landlines for broadband It does seem a little outdated in 2018. For the vast majority of people wishing to make a call, landlines getting ever closer to the bottom of the list of ways you would do this. For many, the number of ways to...
Don’t trust your advertised broadband speeds? The rules have changed.
Countless times the argument has been raised as to whether you receive the broadband speeds that your provider has advertised to you. This has varied across providers and has sparked a number of claims made by people. The difficult aspect is who to trust. Are you...
Pound Investors Anxiously Anticipate Brexit Speech
Pound Sterling (GBP) Persistent concerns over the Brexit process and the rising strength of major peer currencies left the Pound tumbling on Thursday, as investors continued this week’s Sterling selloff. Markets are anxious ahead of Friday’s Brexit speech from UK...
Customers turning to tinfoil to speed up slow broadband
Customers turning to tinfoil to speed up slow broadband It’s never been fully decided, as to whether the gap between broadband speeds from advertised to provided is as large as some claim. Some feel that it is more of a long-standing running joke, a broadband concern...
Receiving the broadband speeds you are paying for?
Regardless of your provider, be it Virgin Media, Sky, BT, TalkTalk, Plusnet, Vodafone, EE or any of the other companies competing for your custom, do you know what speeds you’re actually getting? And will purchasing the more expensive broadband correlate to better...
Line Rental wholesale costs fall by a quarter
Line Rental wholesale costs fall by a quarter Ofcom has finally declared that homeowners are being ripped off by ever increasing line rental costs even if wholesale line rental costs have fallen. Telecoms providers have defended the price increases blaming...
Broadband speed ad rules to be revamped UK
UK broadband firms will be made to alter the way they advertise their web speeds, under regulator strategies. The Advertising Standards Authority says present descriptions of speeds "up to" a particular amount are confusing and will be altered in 2017. On the other...