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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.
Tiscali Broadband In Lowest Ever Price At £6.49
Tiscali Broadband (www.tiscali.co.uk/broadband) has unveiled its lowest ever price for broadband at just £6.49 a month.
The broadband provider, now owned by the Carphone Warehouse group, is offering up to 8Mbps unlimited broadband speeds with free modem and set up for £6.49 a month for the first 3 months, followed by £14.99 per month after. An 18 month contract applies.
Tiscali has also reduced the price of its broadband and phone call packages. From just £9.99 a month, new customers can get up to 8Mbps broadband, free weekend calls to UK and international destinations, plus free telephone line rental.
According to Tiscali, this new deal represents a saving of up to £283 compared to a similar broadband and phone call package from BT.
Customers requiring digital TV can choose from two Tiscali broadband, phone and TV packages that start from £19.99 a month. These include free telephone line rental, 70 digital TV channels (Tiscali TV’s Value Pack) and access to 1,500 movies on demand.
Readers can find out more information on the Tiscali Broadband, phone & TV packages here.
Those readers purely interested in the £6.49 broadband offer are advised to visit the www.tiscali.co.uk website.
Virgin Media Launch 6 Months HALF PRICE Broadband Deal
Virgin Media has announced the launch of a 6 months HALF PRICE broadband deal for new customers ordering online at VirginMedia.com by the 22nd of January 2023. The deal applies to its M350 broadband only package which provides average download speeds of 362Mbps.
The 6 months HALF PRICE broadband deal means new customers switching to Virgin Media can enjoy superfast fibre speeds of 362Mbps for just £15 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £30 a month thereafter.
Virgin Media broadband is an unlimited next generation fibre optic broadband service covering around 55% of UK homes. Their fastest widely available average speeds are seven times faster than Sky and BT’s, while Intelligent Wi-Fi is on hand to automatically sort out any Wi-Fi issues.
No phone line rental is required with the Virgin M350 broadband only package, while a 24 month contract applies.
Those readers looking for a 6 month broadband contract are advised to look at Virgin Media’s no contract 30 day rolling plans which we’ve detailed on our Virgin Broadband review page.
Virgin Media’s 6 months HALF PRICE offer is a special online offer only that’s available for a limited time, so readers are advised to visit the VirginMedia.com website & order online.
UK Airport Coaches To Have Free Wi-Fi Broadband
Swedish based broadband provider Icomera has secured a contract with Excel Passenger Logistics (EPL) to provide free Wi-Fi broadband access on EPL’s airport coach services in the UK.
The free Wi-Fi broadband access will be available for passengers travelling on EPL coaches that run to and from Liverpool, Manchester and Stansted airports.
The coaches will have Icomera’s Moovbox M200 mobile broadband system installed providing passengers with broadband speeds up to a 2 megabits per second.
Graham Hayden, the Managing Director of Excel Passenger Logistics, said: “We want passengers to enjoy the very highest level of service and the installation of free Wi-Fi on our fleet is a major part of our offering”.
Hayden continues, “For international passengers, the presence of free Wi-Fi avoids expensive data roaming fees that make using 3G connections abroard so unattractive”.
The news follows an announcement from BT yesterday that it is to install Wi-Fi broadband access (via BT Openzone) into a number of UK holiday parks.
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.
