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The weather might have got a little warmer, but PlusNet is keeping us cool by offering a price freeze to all subscribers who sign up before 29th March.
The broadband provider has announced that customers who register for a PlusNet broadband package before the 29th are guaranteed the price will stay the same for the next 12 months at least.
PlusNet Broadband offers both home and business broadband packages from only £5.99 a month with up to 20Mpbs broadband.
This offer comes to us after the recent news that PlusNet has been putting the final touches on the installation of its 622Mbps central pipe, meaning that there will be more bandwidth to share amongst subscribers.
Posted by Emily on March 19th 2010 in Broadband, PlusNet
A lot has happened in the UK broadband market in 2009. Here’s a quick round up of the some of the big changes in broadband that have taken place over the last 12 months.
Tiscali gets bought by TalkTalk
Poor old Tiscali spent 2008 looking for a buyer without success and its woes continued into 2009. Despite many ISPs sniffing around hoping to steal a quick march on BT, nobody was willing to dig deep in their wallets. With deals collapsing at the last minute and its parent company losing millions of Euros on the continent times looked bleak for Tiscali’s UK arm. Then TalkTalk came to the rescue at the eleventh hour and swept Tiscali of it’s feet.
Speeding Up
2009 has seen a lot of speeding. BT, Orange and PlusNet all revved up their top download speeds to 20Mbps and 24Mbps in the case of Eclipse Internet. BT also released the Broadband Accelerator speed booster pack allowing customers to benefit from a more reliable broadband experience.
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Posted by Tom on December 21st 2009 in BT Broadband, Be Broadband, Carphone Warehouse, Digital Britain, Eclipse Internet, Mobile Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, O2 Broadband, PlusNet, TalkTalk, Tiscali, Virgin Media
First it was PlusNet now it’s Be Broadband offering customers credit for spreading the word.
If you’re a Be Broadband customer and you’ve got the love, then you can earn a bit of extra cash by putting the word about. From now until December the 31st, you can earn £30 for every friend you get to sign up for Be Broadband.
You can invite up to 7 friends which means total earnings from now until the end of 2009 work our at £210, or enough to pay for Be Unlimited for a whole year.
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Posted by Tom on November 27th 2009 in Be Broadband, PlusNet
Allergy Warning: This article may contain traces of pun.
Over the next two weeks, Eclipse Internet is giving away up to £100 worth of high street gift vouchers as part of a cracking Christmas deal. New customers who place an order from today Monday the 23rd of November to the 14th of December will be able to qualify for free vouchers.
The vouchers are from giftvouchershop.co.uk can be redeemed in over 60 high street retailers including Argos, Burtons, Currys, Toys R Us and WH Smith.
Customers who sign up for Eclipse Home Select (£17.95 p/m, up to 24Mbps, 10GB download limit) will earn £30 worth of vouchers whilst those who take out Eclipse Home Pro (£29.95 p/m, up to 24Mbps, 50GB download limit) will get £50.
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Posted by Tom on November 23rd 2009 in BT Broadband, Eclipse Internet, PlusNet, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Virgin Media
PlusNet is currently offering customers new phone line installations for a real snip – £49.99. In a post on PlusNet’s Community blogs the broadband provider revealed that new customers who place an order for a new line before the 31st of January next year can get it for just £49.99, reportedly less than half of the wholesale cost.
As PlusNet’s Home Phone service has no contract (new BT lines are subject to an 18 month contract), this is ideal for students or people renting who want to get a new line installed but won’t necessarily be living at the same address for long.
The offer of a new line for less than £50 was originally due to end on the 30th of this month but PlusNet has decided to extend the offer right into the new year. PlusNet is also offering a referral scheme, which sees you earning a 25p discount on your monthly broadband bill for every new customer you recommend. This doubles to 50p per month if your referrals sign up for the PlusNet Premium.
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Posted by Tom on November 16th 2009 in Broadband, PlusNet
PlusNet has just announced that it will be shortening the length of its existing 18 month contracts to more flexible 12 month offerings. The terms of PlusNet’s cancellation policy has also been up dated to reflect this change.
Customers who choose to leave prematurely will now only have to pay set up fees if they leave within 12 months instead of 18.
Apart from the lifetime of the contract and the cancellation policy, PlusNet’s broadband packages remain unchanged.
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Posted by Tom on September 21st 2009 in PlusNet
An Ofcom report published yesterday suggests that the average download speed received by UK broadband customers is only just over half the speed of the average advertised rate. Data from the report shows that while the average broadband package is sold as “up to” 7.1Mbps, the actual average speed delivered is thought to be 4.1Mbps, little more than half the average theoretical maximum.
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Posted by Tom on July 29th 2009 in AOL, BT Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, O2 Broadband, Orange Broadband, PlusNet, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Tiscali, Virgin Media
BT Group has released its latest quarterly results up to the end of last year, which reveals that the broadband market leader has again managed to strengthen its position at the head of the pack by adding a total of 4.7 million customers to it’s combined base of BT Broadband and PlusNet subscribers. This represents over a third of the total UK broadband market – 34 per cent.
BT’s Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots have also taken off, with now more than 50,000 access points available worldwide. Part of the official statement reads thus:
“[BT] had 13.6m wholesale broadband connections (DSL and LLU) at 31 December 2008, including 5.5m LLU lines. There were 296,000 net additional broadband connections in the quarter. Our [BT Broadband] share of those net additions was 28%. [BT] broadband revenue grew by 9% with net additions of 83,000 in the quarter.
In the maturing broadband market, we remain the UK’s number one retail broadband provider with a customer base of 4.7m and a retail market share of the DSL and LLU installed base of 34 per cent at 31 December 2008.
Further UK hotspots have been added, and new agreements signed with international operators Swisscom Hospitality Services and SFR in France. BT Openzone is now also available at more than 50,000 worldwide locations through roaming partners.
BT FON membership continued to climb and members now total 163,000, up 9% on the 7 previous quarter. BT customers can now go online at over 120,000 locations in the UK and Ireland with extensive coverage across 12 major city centres.”
That said, BT’s pre-tax profits also signify a pretty big slump – an 81 per cent fall down from the Q4 2007 results published last year.
Posted by Tom on February 12th 2009 in BT Broadband, PlusNet
Broadband comparison site Broadband.co.uk have released the results of their anecdotal speed tests for January 2009, which sees Virgin Media sitting pretty atop the pile with an average download speed of 6.018Mbps – a speed and position no doubt bolstered by the recent launch of the premium Size: XXL 50Mbps service.
Sitting just behind Virgin in second place is O2, owners of Be Broadband’s ADSL2+ infrastructure, with a top average download speed of 5.319Mbps. Third place is Sky Broadband, with a top downstream average of 3.521Mbps.
The three ISPs offer theoretical maximum download speeds of 50Mbps, 20Mbps (or 24, if you’re with Be) and 16Mbps respectively.
Market leaders BT were nowhere to be seen in the upper echelons of the speed test, lurking second to last with a top average download speed of 2.331Mbps, just about AOL’s 2.011Mbps.
In the upload speed stakes, O2 performed considerably better than Virgin, with a top average of 0.734, well above the cable group’s 0.466Mbps.
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Posted by Tom on February 9th 2009 in BT Broadband, Be Broadband, Carphone Warehouse, Eclipse Internet, O2 Broadband, Orange Broadband, PlusNet, TalkTalk, Tiscali, Virgin Media
Attention Mac users – PC owners and fans of Linux please look the other way – MacAce, a specialist ISP providing hosting and broadband exclusively for Mac users, have recently launched a trip of ADSL2+ products delivering speeds of up to 24Mbps across 145 existing BT exchanges.
MacAce’s new AlwaysOn products, Lite, Pro and Elite, all provide top download speeds of 24Mbps, with increasing monthly usage limits of 10GB, 30GB, and 60GB respectively. Like PlusNet, MacAce customers also qualify for unlimited off-peak usage, which is listed as being from 12 Midnight to 7am.
Even though MacAce’s products are delivered over BT lines, you also have the option of paying for line rental and phone calls all through one package with MacAce’s OneVoice broadband and fixed-line bundles.
MacAce ADSL2+ products start from £19.49 per month on their own, or from £30.99 per month as an OneVoice phone and broadband bundle, which includes line rental, calls and broadband.
Posted by Tom on February 6th 2009 in PlusNet
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