Latest UK broadband news

What is Sky Broadband Boost? What features it offer?

Sky Broadband has added a new feature to all of its Internet plans to provide customers with the best service with faster speeds and an easy way to manage home Internet usage. Sky Broadband Boost costs an extra £2.50 per month and can be added as an option on Broadband Essential and Broadband Superfast packages.

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May 15, 2019

BT offers broadband speeds guarantee to residential customers

BT has just revealed its plans to offer Stay Fast Guarantee to millions of its residential customers who use its standard and fibre broadband packages such as Unlimited and Superfast Fibre & Fibre 2 unlimited. The new Stay Fast Guarantee which already applies to BT’s full fibre broadband (FTTP) service, would now allow home broadband

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May 3, 2019

Best broadband providers 2019 for customer satisfaction

The much awaited broadband customer satisfaction report has just been released by the industry watchdog Ofcom today. The report also covers landline and mobile services to reveal customer satisfaction ratings for providers during 2018. Alongside, Ofcom’s telecoms survey 2019 shows other details such as number of consumer complaints to Ofcom per 100k customers, call waiting

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April 30, 2019

TalkTalk CallSafe feature blocks unwanted landline calls

Home phone and broadband provider TalkTalk has enabled a new feature – CallSafe to help its landline customers avoid unwanted calls like marketing calls. According to TalkTalk, CallSafe will check whether the calls come from regularly dialed numbers like friends and family. If so, they will be put straight through. However, while checking the incoming

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January 18, 2018

Moorsweb project to deliver 6Mbps broadband in Farndale

North Yorkshire County Council has announced fast broadband rollout plans for the rural communities in Farndale. NYnet, the local internet service provider, will rollout the scheme to deliver speeds of around 6Mbps.

Rural broadband

January 17, 2011

Providers slash broadband and phone contract termination charges

Major UK broadband providers BT, Talk Talk and Virgin Media agree to cut their early contract termination fee by more than two-thirds for the customers who quit their broadband and home phone service within the minimum contract period.

UK Broadband

June 18, 2010

Plusnet broadband reduced to 12 month contracts

Plusnet reduces the contract length of its broadband packages including Plusnet broadband only & home phone bundles from 18 to 12 months.

PlusNet

September 22, 2009

UK holiday spots to become wi-fi hotspots

BT is to offer wi-fi broadband access at many UK holiday destinations like Coastfields Leisure sites in Skegness, three Pontin’s camps and seventy-seven campsites. BT Openreach, the ISP’s wi-fi providing section has signed a deal with Wicoms to setup wi-fi hotspots in these holiday sites, it was reported. BT Openzone customers or those who have

wi-fi broadband

August 13, 2009

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