Latest Broadband Deals
Sky.com/Value – £13.40 Value Pack & £25 Voucher
Sky has launched a 33% discount on its Sky Value bundle which means new customers can now get Sky TV together with Sky Broadband and Phone Calls for just £13.40 per month at the sky.com/value website.
This deal also includes a FREE Sky+ HD box, a FREE £25 Marks & Spencer or Tesco voucher, plus the option of adding Sky Broadband Unlimited for an extra £5 a month.
BT Infinity Rollout Competition Gets 200,000 Votes
BT (BT.com/infinity) has revealed it has received over 200,000 votes so far from communities across the UK in its BT Infinity rollout competition.
Launched on the 1st of October this year, BT’s Race To Infinity competition will give 5 winning communities BT’s super-fast Infinity Broadband service, with speeds up to 40Mbps, by early 2012 at the latest.
People have been voting in their thousands to help their local telephone exchange win the fibre optic broadband top prize, with Caxton in Cambridgeshire and Malvern in Worcestershire currently leading the race with over 1,000 votes each.
The BT Race To Infinity competition runs until December 31st 2010 and will help BT determine where its fibre optic broadband will be deployed in the coming years.
People can find out when BT Infinity will be available in their area by visiting the BT.com/infinity website.
BT plans to roll out its super-fast BT Infinity Broadband service to two thirds of the UK by 2015, with 4 million premises having access by the end of this year.
BT Infinity packages start from £7.49 a month for up to 40Mbps download speeds and include unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines.
3 Mobile Broadband Wi-Fi Free At Human Hotspots
Mobile operator 3 (three.co.uk/mifi) is giving Britons free access to mobile broadband Wi-Fi as part of a promotion that sees the deployment of ‘Human Hotspots’ across London, Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham and Newcastle.
The ‘Human Hotspots’ are using 3’s MiFi wireless router device which connects to the company’s 3G network to create a mobile broadband Wi-Fi hotspot.
Passers-by who spot a Human Hotspot can trial using their Wi-Fi gadgets, like netbooks, Apple iPads & Amazon Kindles to connect to the internet for free using the Human Hotpot’s MiFi.
The launch of the ‘Human Hotspot’ initiative follows recent research undertaken by 3 which found that more people are going online anywhere they can with their mobile gadgets and are thus are in need of a strong and reliable 3G connection.
A third of respondents also said they were planning to buy a Wi-Fi enabled mobile gadget like a tablet (e.g Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab), Sony Playstation PSP or an Amazon Kindle, as a Christmas gift this year.
Commenting on this, Matthew Halfin, a spokesperson for 3 said; “Three’s 3G network was designed for the mobile internet, so we can give people the very best online experience with their mobile gadgets. This will be particularly important over the Christmas period as a third of people head online with their new mobile toys.”
3’s Wi-Fi wireless router device, known as MiFi, can connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices at once and is available on a pay monthly or pay as you go basis.
Pay monthly plans start from £9.50 a month for 1GB of data over an 18 month contract.
Perfect as a Xmas gift, MiFi pay as you go plans are available for a one-off £69.99 and come pre-loaded with 3GB of data that is valid for up to 3 months. Users can then top up anytime they want with the amount of data they require.
Interested readers can find out more information on 3’s MiFi packages at the three.co.uk website.
BT Autumn Deals Offer Free Christmas Case Of Wine
BT (www.BT.com/autumndeals) is offering new customers a free Christmas case of wine when they sign up online to its BT Autumn deals containing free broadband and calls.
Perfectly timed for Christmas, this impressive offer is also available to new online orders for BT Total Broadband on its own or as part of one of BT’s great value packages containing broadband, phone calls and digital TV.
Online orders for a BT telephone line and BT Infinity Broadband also qualify for the 6 free bottles of wine.
BT’s Autumn deals offer broadband speeds up to 20Mbps plus evening and weekend phone calls free of charge for the first 3 months, followed by £13.99 a month thereafter.
A 10GB monthly download allowance applies to the broadband element of the package, which also includes unlimited Wi-Fi minutes at BT’s 2 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the UK.
Interested readers must order online at the www.BT.com website in order to receive a £50 voucher to purchase BT’s Christmas case of wine from BT’s partner, Naked Wines.
Further information on BT’s current packages can be found at our BT Autumn Deals review.
BT Broadband £25 John Lewis Gift Voucher Offer To End
BT (www.BT.com/broadband) is set to end its offer of a free £25 John Lewis gift voucher on Tuesday the 16th November.
The offer is available to new BT customers ordering a Broadband and Calls package, or a Broadband, Calls and TV package online at the www.BT.com website.
The BT Broadband and Calls packages start from £13.99 a month, with the first 3 months subscription currently free of charge when customers order the BT Autumn deal online.
This deal provides broadband download speeds up to 20Mbps, a 10GB monthly usage allowance, a free BT Home Hub worth £89.99 and unlimited Wi-Fi minutes at 2 million hotspots across the UK.
Unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines and 0845/0870 numbers are also included.
For an additional £4 a month at £17.99, new customers can order a BT Broadband, Calls and TV package.
With this package, customers can receive 4 times as much broadband usage allowance (up to 40GB), advanced security, a revolutionary TV set-top-box and access to the latest films, TV box sets, kids TV shows and live sport.
Interested readers can sign up online for a BT package and qualify for their £25 John Lewis gift voucher at the www.BT.com website.
Order must be place online by midnight tomorrow.
BT Infinity Broadband Roll Out Passes 3 Million Homes
BT (BT.com/infinity) has rolled out its super-fast BT Infinity Broadband network to over 3 million UK homes.
In its latest trading statement, the company also revealed that more than 4,000 people per week were now ordering BT Infinity Broadband, with 38,000 already connected to one of the two fibre optic packages on offer.
BT Infinity is BT’s next generation fibre optic broadband network providing download speeds up to 40Mbps, together with upload speeds up to 10Mbps.
4 million UK homes are expected to have access to BT Infinity enabled telephone exchanges by December 2010 as the company continues its roll out to cover two thirds of the country by 2015.
New and existing BT customers in a BT Infinity enabled area can choose from 2 fibre optic broadband packages which offer download speeds up to 40Mbps.
BT Infinity Broadband Option 1 has a 40GB download usage allowance and costs from £7.49 a month when taken with BT’s unlimited weekend calls package.
BT Infinity Option 2 has an unlimited download usage allowance (subject to a fair usage policy) and is priced from £19.99 per month when taken with BT’s unlimited anytime calls package. Upload speeds up to 10Mbps are also available.
Readers can find out when BT Infinity will be available in their area by visiting the BT.com/infinity website.
