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TalkTalk Broadband Help & Advice Centre Opens
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk) has launched a new broadband help and advice service as part of its new Customer Experience Centre that opened in Soho, London on Monday.
Located in Broadwick Street, the company’s first physical street presence offers a ground-floor drop in service for anyone who wishes to talk about their broadband service to one of TalkTalk’s ‘Broadband Experts’.
Non TalkTalk customers are welcome and can sign up to a TalkTalk package should they choose to, whilst also trying new online products.
A customer lounge exists on the first floor which offers TalkTalk customers free Wi-Fi access aswell as hot and cold refreshments.
Located in a building previously held by Tiscali UK, (the ISP TalkTalk purchased last year), the remaining floors provide office space for start-ups and entrepreneurs with TalkTalk looking to create an incubator space for innovative new technology businesses.
News of the customer centre opening follows a recent announcement from TalkTalk that it plans to extend its fibre optic broadband coverage to nearly 90% of the UK by the end of the year.
Talk Talk Broadband and phone packages start from £6.99 a month for up to 24Mbps broadband download speeds and offpeak phone calls.
Readers can find out more about TalkTalk packages by calling them on 0800 049 7865 or by visiting the talktalk.co.uk website.
Virgin Media Broadband Extend 3 Months Free Deal
Fibre optic broadband provider Virgin Media (virginmedia.com) has announced a date extension to its 3 months free fibre optic broadband size L deal.
Previously due to end on the 30th April, this popular offer, which generates new customers a saving of £40, is now expected to end on the 31st May.
Providing fibre optic broadband speeds up to 10Mbps, the Virgin Media Broadband Size L package includes an unlimited monthly download usage allowance, a free wireless router and modem, Virgin Media PC Security and 5GB’s of free online storage.
Unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines and Virgin Mobiles come as part of the package which requires a Virgin phone line to be taken at £11.99 a month.
There’s no need to pay BT separately for BT line rental as a BT landline is not required.
Usually £12.50 a month, new customers ordering online will receive 3 months free via a £40 credit that will be applied to their first bill.
Furthermore, new customers switching to Virgin Media Broadband from a supplier like BT or TalkTalk will not require a MAC code from them to switch.
Interesed readers can find out more information at the virginmedia.com/broadband website.
Vodafone Add CQ61 To Mobile Broadband Laptops
Vodafone (vodafone.co.uk/laptops) has added the Compaq Presario CQ61-400 laptop to its range of mobile broadband and laptop packages.
Worth £399, the CQ61-400 laptop has a 15.6″ high definition display, an Intel Celeron 2.2Ghz processor, 250GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM.
Its specification also includes an integrated webcam, Wi-Fi and the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
Perfect for professional and personal use, the Compaq Presario CQ61-400 also features a full size keyboard and numeric keypad for making typing a breeze.
The CQ61-400 laptop is available for a one-off £59 when taken with a Vodafone mobile broadband pay monthly package costing £30.
This package provides up to 7.2Mbps speeds, a 3GB download usage allowance per month and a free USB modem stick to connect the CQ61 laptop to Vodafone’s award winning mobile broadband network.
Readers can find out further information at the vodafone.co.uk/laptops website or our Vodafone Mobile Broadband And Laptop package review.
TalkTalk Broadband To Increase Coverage To 90%
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk/switch) has revealed plans to boost its UK broadband coverage to nearly 90% of the UK population by the end of the year.
The UK’s biggest broadband and phone provider currently covers around 80% of the UK population having unbundled 1,700 telephone exchanges.
The process of unbundling a telephone exchange is known as Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) and involves a provider like TalkTalk installing its own kit in a telephone exchange so that its customers can use its next generation broadband network as opposed to BT’s existing network.
TalkTalk plans to unbundle a further 300 exchanges over the coming year resulting in over 2,000 enabled exchanges and near on 90% coverage of the UK population.
Commenting on the news, TalkTalk’s Communications Director, Mark Schmid, said: “We’re also upgrading the capacity of our network in anticipation of ever-higher internet usage. The industry expectation is that consumption of data online will increase by a whopping 50% year on year over the next few years. We’re enhancing our network to cope with this explosive rise in demand”.
Schmid continued: “This upward trend is being boosted by the rise of online TV and video services like BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and, of course, YouTube. Soon these will be joined by Canvas, the online TV service we are a part of, which will provide an iPlayer-style catch-up service on your TV set, while also giving you additional content and features”.
TalkTalk currently offer one of the UK’s cheapest home phone and broadband packages on the market with its Essentials plan costing just £6.99 per month.
Providing broadband download speeds up to 24Mbps and unlimited evening & weekend phone calls to UK landlines, TalkTalk Essentials is a popular choice for new customers switching broadband supplier.
Free anytime calls to other TalkTalk customers are included while a free broadband connection offer currently saves new customers £29.99.
Readers can switch to TalkTalk by calling them on 0800 049 7865 or by visting their talktalk.co.uk/switch website.
Further information can also be found at our Talk Talk Broadband review.
O2 Mobile Broadband Dongle Gets 50% Price Cut
O2 (o2.co.uk) has cut the price of its pay as you go (PAYG) mobile broadband dongle by 50% for the remainder of April.
The new £9.99 offer applies to O2’s pay and go black and pink coloured E160 USB modem dongles that are Mac and PC compatible and come with a 30 day happiness guarantee.
New customers taking up this offer will simply need to pay o2 as and when they need mobile broadband usage.
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Options include a ‘Mobile Broadband Daily’ tariff which offers 500MB of data usage over 24 hours for £2. A ‘Mobile Broadband Weekly’ plan that costs £7.50 for 1GB of data usage over 7 days and a ‘Mobile Broadband Monthly’ package which provides 3GB of data over 30 days for £15.
Mobile broadband access will last for the specified tariff duration (daily, weekly or monthly) or until the specified data allowance is reached, whichever is the sooner.
All three tariffs also include unlimited access to 6,100 Wi-Fi hotspot locations in the UK.
Readers can order O2’s £9.99 pay as you go mobile broadband dongle online at the o2.co.uk website or compare O2 tariffs with other pay as you go mobile broadband providers here.
BE Broadband To End BE Value £7.50 Offer
BE Broadband (bethere.co.uk) has announced that it is to end its £7.50 per month offer for its BE Value Broadband package.
New customers considering switching to BE Broadband have until midnight on the 27th April to take advantage of the offer before the price returns to £13.79 a month.
At £7.50 a month, BE Value Broadband offers download speeds up to 8Mbps coupled with a 40GB monthly download usage allowance. Upload speeds up to 1.3Mbps are included together with a free wireless router.
The BE Value Broadband package is best suited for users who want a fast and reliable broadband service with plenty of download usage allowance, but who do not wish to pay a high monthly fee.
As well as the price returning to £13.79 a month on the 28th April, the 40GB usage cap will be removed making BE Value Broadband an unlimited download usage package which will be subject to a fair usage policy.
Readers can find out further information on BE Value Broadband at the bethere.co.uk website or our BE Broadband review.
