Free Broadband

There are only 2 days left to take advantage of O2’s two months free broadband offer; that is a saving of up to £45!

The offer is available on all 12 month contract packages, Standard, Premium and Pro. O2 packages all come with free connection, wireless router, security software and unlimited downloads as standard.

The offer is open to everyone, not only O2 mobile customers, however mobile customers will benefit from a cheaper monthly costs. The packages vary in cost from £7.50 a month to £17.50 a month, with top download speeds ranging from 8Mbps to 20Mbps.

Unlimited usage is included with every O2 Broadband service.

Gordon Brown is due to announce a scheme which will see the government providing free laptops and broadband access to some 270,000 UK families. Some of the poorest households are expected to benefit from the incentive as part of the £300 million Home Access initiative which was announced and trialled in 2008 and throughout last year.

According to a piece today’s Telegraph, Brown is due to announce: “We want every family to become a broadband family, and we want every home linked to a school.”

“For those finding it difficult to afford this, today I can announce the nationwide rollout of our home access programme to get laptops and broadband at home for 270,000 families. It will mean all families can come together, learn together and reap rewards together.”

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Yep, you read that headline right. In one of the most audacious moves in the UK broadband sector yet, TalkTalk has just announced via the Carphone Warehouse website that it will be offering its Essentials broadband service for 24 month contracts, 12 months of which will be absolutely free.

TalkTalk Essentials provides top speeds of 8Mbps comes with a 40GB download cap and normally costs £6.99 a month plus £11.49 for line rental when taken as a 12 month contract. If you sign up for 24 months you’re essentially getting two for the price of one saving you over £200 (£6.99 = £11.49 x 12 months = £221.76). The only thing you’ll have to pay for for the first year of the contract is the £29.99 connection fee.

Currently it doesn’t look like there are plans to roll out 24 month contracts for TalkTalk’s premium TalkTalk Pro which provides unlimited downloads and top speeds of 24Mbps for £14.99 a month plus £11.49 a month for line rental.

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Today is the day when Orange customers can finally get their hands on an iPhone on contract. Whilst the much hoped-for price war between Orange and O2 hasn’t quite erupted (yet), last night’s announcement by O2 could be the spark which ignites the kindling.

If you’ve got an iPhone and you’re on O2, signing up for the 3GB Internet Tethering iPhone bolt-on will see you getting the O2 Standard Broadband package (up to 8Mbps, unlimited downloads) included for FREE.

This offer is open to new and existing customers so if you’ve already got O2 Broadband in the home then you won’t be left out of the deal. Customers on the Premium and Pro O2 Broadband packages (top speeds of 16Mbps and 20Mbps, unlimited downloads) can also enjoy monthly discounts of £7.34 with the Total Connectivity for iPhone plan. This brings the monthly prices of the services down to £2.45 and £9.79 a month respectively.

The offer is available from today, the 10th of November up until the 31st of December. Obviously you can only sign up for this if you can get O2 Broadband in your area and you’re not already been supplied broadband by someone else.

Orange has recently revamped it’s broadband products, rolling out top speeds of 20Mbps across the board, and has been offering its mobile phone customers discounted broadband for some now. It’ll be interesting to see how or even if Orange responds to this recent development.

BT is looking to celebrate bonfire night with a bang with an explosive triple-play broadband offer. From the 5th of November to the 11th of December, customers ordering BT Vision plus BT voice calls with their BT Broadband package will qualify for three months of free broadband.

This could save you up to £55.78 off of the cost of your BT Broadband contract (based on BT Broadband Option 3; 20Mbps top speeds unlimited downloads £18.58 a month for the first three months) - pretty sparkling savings we think you’ll agree.

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BT Broadband has just announced that it has completed upgrades of hundreds of its exchanges which will give customers access to speeds of up to 20Mbps. 549 exchanges, serving 10 million UK homes, have been upgraded, with more homes to be added throughout the rest of the year.

What’s more is that homes eligible for an upgrade will be able to speed up for virtually nothing. Although the theoretical maximum speed available on a fully pimped ADSL2+ line is 24Mbps, BT Broadband has taken a leaf out of O2 Broadband’s book and will be advertising the top speed as being 20Mbps. This is ostensibly to advertise a more realistic top speed, as the theoretical maximum is rarely if ever experienced by broadband customers.

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From today BT are offering three months free broadband to customers who return to the company for their phone calls.

Customers who sign up for BT’s ‘Broadband and Calls’ package or ‘Broadband, Calls and Vision’ will receive BT Total Broadband free for three months. Alternatively, customers who choose to opt for broadband only on BT’s Option 1 and Option 3 packages before 28th April will benefit from £10 and £30 credit respectively on their bill.

The free broadband offer which begins tomorrow applies to all customers who sign up to the above BT broadband bundles before 12th May. The deal is only available online.

BT Total Broadband includes the award-winning BT Home Hub, download speeds of up to 8Mbps, internet security from McAfee and 250 to unlimited inclusive Wi-Fi minutes a month depending on which package you choose. BT Total Broadband starts at £15.65 a month after the first three months of an 18 month contract.

The Carphone Warehouse are helping customers beat the credit crunch blues with their amazing new offer which sees customers who sign up for the TalkTalk Essentials plan for 18 months before February the 28th get the first 12 months of broadband with evening and weekend landline calls included for free.

Customers will only pay for the line rental at £10.50 per month, a one-off connection charge of £29.99, and will only be charged an extra £6.49 a month from the 13th month onwards.

Not including the cost of line rental, this brings the cost of the TalkTalk Essentials down to £68.93 over an 18 month period (three months at £6.49 plus the connection fee).

The TalkTalk Essentials package gives you top download speeds of 8Mbps, a 40GB download limit, free wireless router as well as unlimited evening and weekend calls to local and national UK landlines, as well as a selection of popular international numbers.

This TalkTalk Essentials offer is available up until the end of February, and is currently only available in either Carphone Warehouse stores, or by calling this number: 0800 049 7890

Broadband? Afford-band, more like. People in Britain are embracing digital technology faster than any other nation, according to a new report by communications regulator Ofcom.

Of the twelve industrialised nations studied for the report, Britain offers the cheapest broadband, mobile and pay-TV rates, and is also ahead of most when it comes to broadband take-up at 60%.

Social networking is also on the up, with half the UK using websites such as Facebook, Bebo and Myspace, and 43% of the population regularly uploading photos of friends and family to the internet. The keenest social networkers were Canadians, at 55% of the population. In the USA, the birthplace of Facebook, 40% of internet users were signed up to social networking site, whilst in France the figure was as low as 27%.

Eight percent of total music sales in Britain are now made online, the highest figure of any European country with the exception of Spain. Given the healthy state of the music industry in this country, this ought to come as no surprise, although Britain lags behind the US, where almost a quarter of music sales are made digitally. Nearly a fifth of advertising revenue in Britain is generated online.
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Orange have just announced some new price changes to their domestic broadband products which now sees Orange Pay Monthly mobile customers able to qualify for a discount of up to £10 off of the cost of any of the Orange broadband products, which means that their basic entry-level Home Starter package (up to 8Mbps speed, 10GB monthly download limit), usually worth £10, could be taken as a FREE addition to a any Orange mobile contract, provided that its at least 18 months long.

Obviously, this rules out the rolling monthly SIM-only plans, but customers on such a plan can easily upgrade to a Pay Monthly contract in order to take advantage of free or discounted broadband, and is only available to customers inside Orange’s LLU network; use our postcode checker to see if you can sign up.

In other news, the cost of BT line rental is now included in the price of the top tier Orange Broadband Home Max product (up to 8Mbps speed, unlimited downloads) which, with the Orange Pay Monthly mobile discount is now available for just £15 a month for 18 months.

The news comes right after word of yet another potential Tiscali buyout, which would see Orange become the fifth largest ISP in the UK by default.