Millions of households will pay more for their broadband this month with four major telecoms providers hiking prices. The average bill will increase £3.03 per month, the equivalent of £36.39 per year, according to Compare the Market, with the collective cost estimated to be nearly a billion pounds. The nation’s big four internet providers, Sky, … Read more
Zoom calls freeze, emails take forever to send and streaming a film on Netflix is nigh on impossible. You’d be forgiven for thinking these are the internet woes faced by families living in a remote rural village. But Ashok Chhana, 63, and his wife Tara, 62, live in Harrow, North London — just four miles … Read more
Broadband venture OneWeb could use lasers in space to provide crucial back-up if undersea communication cables were attacked by hostile nations By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 22:43 GMT, 27 March 2021 The Government-backed broadband venture OneWeb could use lasers in space to provide crucial back-up … Read more
Sky launches new business offering broadband to small firms as it steps up battle with BT By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:35 GMT, 23 March 2021 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 23 March 2021 Sky’s new subsidiary Sky Connect will offer broadband to small businesses Telecoms giant Sky has launched a business offering … Read more
Broadband customers face higher bills as Ofcom rules out price cap on BT’s new full-fibre network for a decade Company is also spending £12billion on rolling out full-fibre broadband in UK Openreach will see no regulation or price caps on its new fibre services Increase in costs will encourage customers to switch and get new … Read more
Three of Britain’s biggest internet providers tell regulator that broadband customers are suffering outages due to poor service from BT infrastructure arm By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 17:04 GMT, 7 March 2021 Three of Britain’s biggest internet providers have told the regulator that broadband customers … Read more
Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station to install a new British-built terminal that will allow them to connect to the internet at broadband speeds. NASA’s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will venture outside at 12:05 GMT to undertake a six hour mission to mount the suitcase-sized device to the European Space Agency (ESA) … Read more
Sky broadband CRASHES for thousands of users across the country Source of the outage remains unknown but it has affected people nationwide By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 17:12 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 17:20 GMT, 26 January 2021 Sky broadband appears to have crashed for thousands of users across the UK as part of what … Read more
Lack of competition in the broadband market means the majority of households use just four providers to connect their home, new research has revealed. Some 21million households are with the ‘Big Four’ providers which include Sky, Virgin, BT and TalkTalk, according to data from Compare the Market. It found that four in five households have not … Read more
Sky broadband CRASHES for thousands of Britons leaving children and adults working from home during lockdown without internet By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 11:18 GMT, 7 January 2021 | Updated: 11:22 GMT, 7 January 2021 Sky broadband appears to have crashed across the UK for thousands of users. The ill-timed outage comes as millions … Read more