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BT Offers Free 20Mb Broadband Speed Upgrade
BT (www.BT.com) has announced that from today it is offering millions of its customers a free broadband speed upgrade to up to 20Mbps – together with a free BT Broadband Accelerator speed pack.
The faster broadband speeds will initially be available to 10 million UK homes and businesses via 549 enabled exchanges. This represents 40% of UK homes, while a further 15% will be covered by March 2010.
Unlike other broadband suppliers, BT is offering the faster broadband speeds for free. The means new and re-contracting customers can get up to 20Mb BT Broadband for just £7.78 a month when they order online at BT.com.
The BT Broadband Accelerator speed pack includes a small plate that customers can easily insert into their main telephone socket to reduce electrical interference. This is reported to help increase broadband speeds by up to 1.5Mb.
Along with installation instructions, the speed pack also includes a 10-step guide on how to optimise home broadband speeds.
Worth £15, the BT Broadband Accelerator pack can be ordered online for free at BT.com, with postage costing just £1.20.
The Managing Director of BT’s Consumer division, John Petter, said: “The BT Broadband Accelerator can make a big difference to the speed of your broadband. We think it is so important we’ve taken the decision to offer it to our customers for just the cost of the postage”.
Petter continued: “Between that and us more than doubling headline speeds for millions of homes and businesses, most customers should start to see a rapid boost in the performance of their connection. We have a track record of not charging customers any more when we increase the speed and this time is no different. BT broadband customers won’t have to pay any more to get higher speeds”.
Petter concluded: “These two moves demonstrate our commitment to helping the UK move closer to the kind of widely-available speeds published in the Digital Britain report”.
Customers can order or simply find out when they can get up to 20Mb broadband at BT.com.
Super-Fast Broadband To Be In Glasgow By Autumn
BT (www.BT.com) has announced that Glasgow is set to be one of the first cities to benefit from its super-fast fibre optic broadband, with roll out brought forward to Autumn this year.
The super-fast broadband roll out will enable around 15,500 Glasgow homes and businesses to access broadband speeds up to 40Mbps with areas like Crookston, Hillington and Cardonald set to benefit first.
In order to make it possible, BT are installing 56 new street cabinets along with 30 miles of fibre optic cable which will connect from the exchanges to the cabinets.
The BT Openreach Director for Scotland, Bob Downes, said, “We couldn’t have made this a reality without the cooperation and commitment from Glasgow City Council who have supported us all along the road and totally grasped the importance and business potential this can deliver for the city”.
The Leader of Glasgow City Council, Steve Purcell, said, “With many businesses reliant on being able to send, receive and manage huge quantities of data and information on a daily basis a robust and modern communications infrastructure is an essential component to the city’s economic success and competitiveness”.
Though Glasgow will be one of the first cities to benefit, BT also has plans to roll out its fibre optic broadband network to Edinburgh, Cardiff and North London by summer 2010.
BT estimates that one million homes in these areas will be able to access higher broadband speeds up to 40Mbps from as early as March next year.
BT To Launch Wi-Fi Broadband In UK Holiday Parks
BT (www.BT.com) has announced plans to launch Wi-Fi broadband access in a range of UK holiday and caravan parks this summer.
The announcement follows a tie up between BT Openzone and Wicoms that will see wireless broadband (Wi Fi) installed into 3 of Pontin’s holiday parks, together with 77 different camping and caravan sites and Coastfields leisure sites.
The move to give UK holiday makers Wi-Fi broadband access is down to providing extra entertainment due to this summer’s unfavourable weather.
The General Manager of BT Openzone, Chris Bruce, said, “Having the option to get online and stay entertained will provide a useful plan B if the weather does its worst, and being able to look up tourist information and hunt out local gems will make for a better trip”.
BT Broadband customers with inclusive Wi-Fi minutes in their contracts will be able to access the Wi-Fi services free of charge with their laptops.
O2 mobile broadband customers with Wi-Fi minutes in their contracts will also benefit together with O2 iPhone users.
Other users will simply need to buy a BT Openzone voucher online and pay from half a pence per minute for Wi-Fi broadband access.
Readers can find out more at about the BT Broadband packages that include free Wi-Fi minutes here.
BT Brings Back 3 Months Free Broadband Offer
BT (www.BT.com) has brought back its 3 months free broadband offer as competition hots up in the broadband sector.
The online offer is available now at the BT.com website until the 4th September 2009.
To qualify for the offer, new customers must order a BT package online, be it BT broadband and phone calls, broadband and TV or broadband, phone & TV. BT’s Home & Away package is excluded from the offer.
The move means customers can get up to 8Mb broadband together with unlimited evening & weekend UK phone calls (known as the ‘Get Connected’ package) for free for the first 3 months, followed by £15.65 a month thereafter. Offpeak calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers are also included.
For those customers considering switching from Sky, the BT Vision bronze value deal containing 40 digital TV channels and the choice of 2 viewing packs from film, music, sport and kids can be added for an additional £7.34 a month.
The BT Vision gold value deal is available for an additional £12.23 a month and includes all 4 viewing packs.
BT’s free mobile broadband usage deal worth £180 remains available until the end of August for those customers ordering BT broadband on its own. We understand this deal cannot be used in conjunction with the BT’s new 3 months free broadband offer.
Readers can find out more at our BT Broadband package review.
BT Expands Wi-Fi Broadband Hotspots Via Quiconnect
BT (www.BT.com) has expanded the number of its Wi-Fi broadband hotspots via a new agreement with Quiconnect.
The new agreement links BT Openzone’s Wi-Fi broadband network with over 55,000 international Wi-Fi hot spot networks all around the world.
This means BT Broadband customers with laptops will soon be able to benefit from overseas wireless broadband access by using their free Wi-Fi minutes in their contract.
When speaking about the partnership, Marjorie Leonidas, Head of BT’s International Roaming Service said, “Our partnership allows us to provide an even better choice of locations. We look forward to announcing more partner interconnections and hotspots this year”.
The Vice President of Quiconnect, Jeff Mabe, said, “We are delighted to continue our partnership with BT Openzone as a wireless broadband leader and innovator. Quiconnect continues to provide a similar service to over 40 partners worldwide.
Mabe continued, “BT Openzone’s renewed commitment allows Quiconnect the opportunity for continued development and testing of new and exciting tools, technology and processes that demonstrates our credibility in all areas of wireless connectivity”.
Throughout the UK and Ireland alone, users can benefit from BT Wi-Fi broadband access in more than 3,500 hotspots that include the likes of Starbucks, Caffe Nero plus Thistle and Hilton hotels.
BT Says Broadband Network Is Ready For Swine Flu
BT has now announced that it is confident the UK broadband infrastructure can handle the effects of a UK swine flu pandemic.
Earlier on in the week concerns were raised by emergency services in Whitehall that the increased usage of the UK’s broadband networks by swine flu victims working from home could cause the infrastructure to fail.
In a statement, BT said that “its network is in a strong position to cope with the expected demands in home working”.
With many businesses reported to not have any measures in place for a swine flu pandemic, it is feared that it will be their own computer networks and links, rather than BT’s, that will fail as they may not have enough capacity to handle the increase in home workers request during the day.
Therefore, it is recommended that the UK’s businesses review their own communications infrastructure and build in additional capacity sooner rather than later.
