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!

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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…)

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…)