Broadband Finder has just has just uncorked another amazing deal with BT and Naked Wines. When you order any of the three BT packages featured below, you will receive 6 bottles of wine (worth £50) free.
Naked Wines is an online wine retailer which offers customers the choice from a huge range of quality wines made by independent wine makers.
There are three options to choose from:
- BT Total Broadband Option 1 (Broadband Only) - £7.99 for 3 months then £15.99 a month thereafter plus £11.54 monthly line rental (18 month contract)
- BT Calls & Broadband - £7.99 for 3 months then £15.99 a month thereafter plus £11.54 monthly line rental (18 month contract) – Discount ends 23rd March 2010
- BT calls, Broadband & Vision - £13.49 for 3 months then £28.99 a month thereafter plus £11.54 monthly line rental (18 month contract) FREE Vision+ box included - Discount ends 26rd March 2010
You will only be eligible free wine offer is only available if one of the above packages is ordered online, by following any of the above three links. You must first get the BT broadband package installed in your home; then send an email to promotion1[at]bt.com to claim your wine. Once you’re all set up and you’ve got broadband up and running in your house, you can relax with a nice bottle of wine.
This offer ends on 9th April 2010 so you need to get in quick if you want to take advantage of this great offer.
Posted by Laura on March 11th 2010 in BT Broadband, Broadband, Broadband Bundles
From the 1st of March onwards O2 mobile phone and mobile broadband customers can earn £50 if they sign up for O2 Home Broadband. Punters who opt for either the Premium or Pro packages, both of which provide top speeds of 20Mbps, will see £50 credit tacked onto their mobile bills.
This offer applies to mobile phone and mobile broadband subscribers on pay monthly and pay as you go. This could pay for five months of mobile broadband if you’re on the 18 month 1GB plan, or two months on the least expensive 24 month iPhone 3GS tariff.
If customers are not already with O2 mobile they can still take advantage of the offer and simply buy a mobile product within 30 days of purchasing O2 Premium or Pro Broadband. This also applies to the SIM-Onle (pay as you go) tariffs.
O2 mobile customers can sign up for O2 Premium costs £10 a month, or O2 Pro for £17.50. Premium and Pro both provide speeds of up to 20Mbps and unlimited downloads. The only difference is that the Pro package allows for faster upload speeds - up to 2.5 Mbps compared to the 1.3Mbps maximum upload of Premium.
Posted by Emily on March 1st 2010 in Broadband, Mobile Broadband, O2 Broadband
Whilst BT is surging ahead with its BT Infinity and Virgin Media is busy pooh-poohing its rivals efforts, Eclipse Internet has quietly unveiled a couple of cable services of its own which are due to go online in the 12th of April.
According to Think Broadband, the services make use of BT’s fibre networks so it looks as though some sort of wholesale agreement has been reached. Looks like the Tories won’t have to break up BT after all - even if they do win the election.
The two services, called Eclipse Fibre and Eclipse Fibre Pro, both offer top speeds of 40Mbps and interestingly both guarantee speeds of at least 12Mbps throughout.
Not next-gen speeds you’ll agree but it’s good to see an ISP being straight with its customers about what the speeds will be at their absolute slowest.
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Posted by Tom on February 19th 2010 in Broadband
The last thing we heard from TalkTalk regarding connection fees for online orders for broadband is that they were to be free indefinitely.
Noting that ‘indefinitely’ doesn’t always mean forever, we’ve been checking back at the TalkTalk website and we’re pleased to report that this is still the case.
Connection normally costs £29.99 but is still free for those who order either of the Essentials or Pro packages from TalkTalk online
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Posted by Laura on February 18th 2010 in Broadband, TalkTalk
It’s been a while since the launch of Virgin Media - just over 3 years in fact.
You’d be surprised to learn then that it’s taken this long for the business arm of NTL:Telewest to be rebranded as Virgin Media Business.
Richard Branson presided over the re-brand aiming to “shake up the UK business telecoms market” and build on the success of Virgin Media in the domestic market by consolidating the brand under “one common offering”.
The company is said to be ploughing money into its networks, provisioning functions and ad campaigns based around the rebrand.
However the option of paying for access to BT’s high speed tunnels has not yet been dismissed by the company.
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Posted by Laura on February 12th 2010 in BT Broadband, Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, Virgin Media
BT has allegedly been talking to telecoms regulator Ofcom about opening their cable ducts to rival competitors.
According to a piece in the Financial Times allowing rivals to use the company’s infrastructure to run their own high speed broadband networks.
This has come to light recently as the Conservatives suggested that if they won the election they would ‘legislate to force BT to open its ducts’.
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Posted by Laura on February 8th 2010 in BT Broadband, Broadband, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, UK Online
3 has just rolled out a number of new laptop broadband deals. Customers looking to get an all in one mobile broadband package with 3 can now sign up for one of three Windows 7-powered machines on a range of 18 and 24 month contracts.
First up is the Samsung R5630, available on a £35 a month 24 month contract. The Samsung R5630 features a 500GB hard drive, 4GB of memory and a 15.6-inch LED HD screen.
Next is the super-slim Toshiba T130 which boasts a 13.3-inch screen, 250GB drive and 3GB of memory as well as a powerful battery which provides 9.5 hours of juice. The Toshiba T130 is available for £$0 on a slightly more flexible 18 month tariff.
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Posted by Tom on January 18th 2010 in 3, Broadband
We might be seriously lagging behind other countries in terms of speed but us Great Brits are pretty fond of our gigabits if this Ofcom survey is anything to go by. Compared with the USA, France, Germany, Spain and Italy the UK can boast the lowest prices for single line (i.e. not bundled with voice calls) and mobile broadband services. Prices for fixed-line voice calls are also the second lowest, after Italy.
Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, said: “The report shows that UK consumers have benefited from competition in the form of lower prices. Innovation means that the UK is well placed in the take up and availability of digital services.”
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Posted by Tom on December 18th 2009 in Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, O2 Broadband, Virgin Media
When TalkTalk replaced its offer of M&S vouchers with free connection to its broadband services (normally charged at £29.99) it was understood that the offer would expire on the 15th of December.
We’ve just heard from TalkTalk that the offer is to be extended for an indefinite period - no date has been given but we’re told that this is a “limited time offer” so if you want to cash in, we’d suggest you get your skates on.
Free connection is currently available to customers ordering the Essentials or Pro packages. TalkTalk Essentials provides download speeds of up to 8Mbps a 40GB monthly download limit and evening and weekend calls for £6.99 a month.
TalkTalk Pro comes with top speeds of 24Mbps, unlimited downloads and anytime calls for £14.99 a month. Line rental is charged at £11.49 per month and is payable to TalkTalk instead of BT.
Posted by Tom on December 16th 2009 in BT Broadband, Broadband, TalkTalk
Come next-gen broadband and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for dial-up now. As well as Jimmy Carr, the Wernham Hogg Paper Company and that John Betjeman poem, Slough can now count high speed mobile broadband among Things It’s Famous For.
O2, whose UK headquarters are in the Berkshire town, has distributed next-gen LTE dongles to test out their new high speed mobile network. LTE, short for Long Term Evolution technology, is looking set to replace 3G as the next high speed mobile broadband technology.
A piece in today’s Telegraph states that the LTE dongles given out in the O2 trial are theoretically capable of providing top speeds of 150Mbps.
This could mean that super-fast speeds could be rolled out without the need for the expensive and time consuming installation of a nationwide fibre network.
Part of the Digital Britain report mentioned that future solutions for Broadband Britain (2Mbps speeds in every home by 2012) would involve a mixture of traditional physical connections (phone lines and cable) and wireless solutions.
LTE ought to allow for all sorts of mobile broadband goodness such as seamless streaming of HD videos, downloads of huge playlists, online mobile gaming… everything that a fast fixed-line connection ought to allow for.
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Posted by Tom on December 15th 2009 in Broadband, Mobile Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, O2 Broadband
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