Tiscali Broadband, currently the UK’s 4th biggest ISP with over two million subscribers, have announced they fully expect to sell their UK Broadband operation within two years. Having just reported their first net profit in ten years, Tiscali Broadband is currently not for sale, though they are sitting nice and ripe for a takeover. This is partly due to their current market leading TV, internet and phone bundle which cost only £19.99 a month. The last few years has seen most medium sized ISP’s such as Bulldog and Plusnet absorbed by the big boys, and chief executive Tommaso Pompei is not intending to fight the trend.

“We do expect to be part of this process. We’ll be 100% focused on our own results this year, but are preparing to react should the consolidation take place”

This comes at a time when the market is being dominated by four aggressive main players, who all have the ability to offer not just internet access, but also satellite and cable TV, landlines and mobile phones, all for one package price. BT Total Broadband and Virgin Media share over 7 million customers between them, but hot on their heel are Sky and Carphone Warehouse, who have appeared from nowhere and share nearly 4 million users, having only offered internet access in the last two years.

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The FREE BT Home Hub offer with Option 1 has been extended into March! The offer is available on all BT Total Broadband packages for new users on both 12 and 18 month contracts and gives them a sleek black home hub worth £89.99. This offer is time limited and ends on the 19th March 2008 so hurry and sign up now!

To benefit from this fantastic offer you must do so before WEDNESDAY 19th March 2008.

>> Get BT Total Broadband with FREE Home Hub worth £89.99

The great BT Broadband Special Offer noted earlier in the month here on this very blog is coming to an end this Friday 29th February. The deal is a FREE home hub with every new customer who takes up BT Total Broadband Option 1 for just £8.95 for the first 6 months (£17.99 thereafter) and offers the speed and reliability you would expect from BT.

The Home Hub….

• Makes it easy to connect PCs, laptops and gaming consoles wirelessly
• Has a built in firewall and automatic security updates to keep you safe online
• Allows you to get BT Vision, BTs flexible digital TV service with no annual contract
• Also allows you to make calls over the internet either with the BT Hub Phone (£49.99) or through any touch tone phone

>> Sign up for BT Total Broadband Option 1 and get a FREE Home Hub!

BT Total Broadband have announced a fanastic short term offer which will last until the end of February - the BT Home Hub is being offered FREE on Option 1 which costs just £8.95 for the first 6 months (£17.99 thereafter) and offers the speed and reliability you would expect from BT. 

The Home Hub from BT :

• makes it easy to connect PCs, laptops and gaming consoles wirelessly
• has a built in firewall and automatic security updates to keep you safe online
• allows you to get BT Vision, BTs flexible digital TV service with no annual contract
• allows you to make calls over the internet either with the BT Hub Phone (£49.99) or through any touch tone phone

>> Remember this offer is for a limited time only so sign up today!

The award winning BT Total Broadband has announced that they will be offering BT Vision FREE with all new broadband packages - enabling you to watch both Freeview and On Demand digital TV whenever you want, without having to sign up to an annual contract. This follows in the footsteps of Tiscali and Virgin Media of offering complete Broadband, TV and Phone packages to their customers. When you sign up for BT Total Broadband as a new customer from £8.95 a month let them know you want BT Vision and you’ll get a V-Box (which is their digital TV recorder) sent to you with your BT Home Hub. Once set up (there is a connection fee of £30) you’ll be able to pause and rewind live TV and record up to 80 hours of your favourite programmes.

BT Vision enables you to :

• Watch films from BT’s vast library for as little as £1.99
• Enjoy 70 digital TV and radio channels with Freeview as standard
• See up to 242 Barclay Premier League games for as little as 99p per view, or get unlimited access to Setanta Sports from £9.99 a month
• Choose from a wide range of viewing packages, so you get to choose the kind of TV Films and Sport you want to watch, from just £6 a month
• Record up to 80 hours of programmes with a V-Box. Customers signing up to BT Total Broadband get a V Box at no extra cost, otherwise it’s £199

>> Sign up for BT Total Broadband from £8.95 a month and get BT Vision FREE!

>> Read more about BT Total Broadband

BT’s have updated the design of their Home Hub which is their wireless router (connecting your computer to the BT broadband enabled phone line) enabling you to provide broadband wirelessly throughout the home from a sexy looking box! The Home Hub will update itself automatically and is futureproofed as technical upgrades can be delivered more easily. The redesign also makes it even easier for you to set up so you can be online without too much fuss and surfing the net at speeds of up to 8MBps in no time. (more…)

BT have announced that Birmingham will be the next location for their live trials of their 21st Century Network (21CN) following on from successful trials completed in June 2007 in Central London, Woolwich and Cambridge. 21CN will make new voice and data services possible by using ADSL2+ technology through the copper wire infrastructure that already exists in BT exchanges. (more…)

If you’re anything like me then you’ve got a huge bundled knot of indeterminate wires hidden behind your TV, under your desk and behind the sofa – out of sight, out of mind and as soon as a new item of electrical equipment is purchased the connecting cables seem to breed with the rest of the wires in the house and are literally and metaphorically swept under the carpet.  Aside from numerous other benefits to going ‘wireless broadband’ this is one very good reason to either spring clean your internet connection and upgrade to a new broadband provider which includes a wireless router or simply treat yourself to one of the many wireless routers available as a standalone purchase. (more…)

BT have reported that every week hundreds of users are switching to their award winning BT Total Broadband package. BT offer great value broadband which is reliable and secure and independent testing company Epirito have judged BT Total Broadband the best broadband provider for the 5th successive quarter - a remarkable achievement considering the current amount of competition.

Switching broadband providers is easy and BT have great introductory offers of 8MB broadband from just £8.95 a month for the first 3 months and a FREE home hubs with Option 2 or 3. BT also include automatic online backups of your important data so you won’t suffer too much should you have a virus or hardware failure.

>> Click here to switch to BT Total Broadband

Ofcom are pressing for common sense to prevail by making it mandatory for VoIP providersto provide access to emergency numbers including 999 by the first half of 2008. Ofcom’s proposal published recently stated that any VoIP provider that allows their subscribers to make calls to landlines as part of their VoIP package must also offer access to the emergency services via 999.

It may come as a surprise to many non VoIP users that some providers such as Skype don’t allow 999 access and indeed it is worrying that any delay in making a 999 call whilst trying to locate a mobile phone of normal landline could in fact cause fatalities. The report suggested that enabling users to call 999 would cost just 90 pence per household per year - a very small cost when you consider the life threatening implications! (more…)