New customers can get Plusnet Unlimited Broadband from £18.99 per month, including £50 cashback on a 12-month contract.

Plusnet Unlimited Broadband offers up to 17Mb of speed as well as unlimited downloads, meaning that you won’t have to worry about going over monthly data caps.

Plusnet Unlimited Fibre Broadband is also available from £24.99 a month, with no activation fee on an 18-month contract.

Unlimited Fibre Broadband gives users up to 38Mb, which is ideal if you’re an online gamer or regularly stream HD TV and films.

Customers can also get Unlimited Fibre Extra, giving you up to 76Mb from £29.99 per month, with no activation fee on an 18-month contract.

Plusnet Unlimited Fibre is up to 5 times faster than standard broadband and also features fully unlimited downloads, making it one of the most competitive fibre broadband deals on the market.

The monthly fee for all Plusnet packages includes line rental, meaning you won’t be hit with unexpected costs. 

Both packages feature Line Only Plusnet Phone, which includes calls to other Plusnet Phone customers and Plusnet support at all times. 

Plusnet features award-winning customer support that’s available 365 days a year, with customers being more satisfied than those of Sky Virgin Media and TalkTalk. 

These offers will run until March 13th 2018, so act now to take advantage of the discounts.

New customers can choose between a £50 prepaid MasterCard or a free Samsung Galaxy Tab E (worth £139.99) when they sign up to Sky Broadband Unlimited, Sky Fibre Unlimited and Sky Fibre Max.

As well as this, Sky is also offering savings on Sky Broadband Unlimited, allowing new customers to sign up for £18 per month, including line rental. 

Sky Broadband Unlimited offers speeds of up to 17Mbps as well as completely unlimited downloads.

This allows users to download anything they want without having to worry about monthly data caps. 

Customers can also get Sky Fibre Unlimited with Pay As You Talk for £32 per month for 18 months, with offers up to 38Mbps.

Sky Broadband Unlimited offers a number of extras such as a free Sky Hub, Sky Broadband Shield internet security and access to Sky WiFi at no extra cost. 

If you’re switching to Sky from another provider, the Sky Switch Squad makes this hassle-free and deals with the provider so you don’t have to. 

Sky is also number 1 for customer service compared to other providers, with help on hand online and by phone at any time.

Sky Broadband Unlimited requires an upfront cost of £9.95.

These offers are for a limited time only, so act now to take advantage. 

For more information on Sky Broadband Unlimited and other Sky packages, check out Broadband Finder.

Named Ultrafast Fibre 1 and Ultrafast Fibre 2, it’s confirmed they’ll cost £54.99 and £59.99 respectively and will each come with a slightly unusual service guarantee.

If, after purchasing one of these packages, BT customers happen to discover that their broadband speed has dropped below 100Mbps then they’ll be entitled to £20 in compensation. This offer can only be redeemed four times in a year however.

Only 250,000 homes are currently able to access the service in 46 locations across the UK which include Yorkshire, the Welsh county of South Glanmorgan and Donaldson in Edinburgh.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like BT are planning to expand the service anytime soon.

While similar services are offered by relatively new West London based broadband provider Hyperoptic and Virgin Media, ThinkBroadband co-founder Andrew Ferguson believes some consumers are looking to try something different, particularly those who have a very strong interest in online gaming.

"With the rise of online gaming leagues, having a stable connection for gaming at home is becoming more important. And in some areas Virgin Media has a legacy of being oversubscribed.”

“Therefore, there may be lots of people willing to try an alternate service to see if the latency during gaming is more stable.

The technology behind BT’s new service is what’s known as G.fast which has been designed to help significantly increase the upload and download speeds of fibre-to-the-premise broadband.

According to Ofcom, the average internet download speed for the UK is 44Mbps.

Source: BBC

The chamber’s policy director Nick Burfield believes that the government’s new Universal Service Obligation, which grants everybody in the UK the legal right to request broadband speeds of 10Mbps or more, is not enough.

Instead, he says they should be aiming to deliver speeds of 100Mbps to every household across the country.

“That is, maybe, not realistic but it is what we should be aiming for.”

“You won’t get economic benefits unless you have high speeds. The Government should be committed to that as more resources would close the gap.”

Mr Burfield also praised Suffolk Country Council and their Better Broadband for Suffolk Campaign which so far, has managed to bring superfast broadband to an impressive 85% of the county and is aiming for complete 100% coverage by the end of 2020.

His words come as the chamber issues its new manifesto, setting out exactly what it will be campaigning for over the next three years.

Some of these goals including reducing unnecessary regulations for business, improving access to markets and giving businesses the tools to do the job.

Source: East Anglian Daily Times

New customers can get Plusnet Unlimited Broadband from £18.99 per month for 18 months, including £50 cashback with a £5 activation fee.

Plusnet Unlimited Broadband offers up to 17Mb of speed as well as unlimited downloads, meaning that you won’t have to worry about going over monthly data caps.

Plusnet Unlimited Fibre Broadband is also available for £23.99 a month for 18 months, with no activation fee required.

Unlimited Fibre Broadband gives users up to 38Mb, which is ideal if you’re an online gamer or regularly stream HD TV and films.

Customers can also get Unlimited Fibre Extra, giving you up to 76Mb from £31.99 per month with a £15 activation fee.

Plusnet Unlimited Fibre is up to 5 times faster than standard broadband and also features fully unlimited downloads, making it one of the most competitive fibre broadband deals on the market.

The monthly fee for all Plusnet packages includes line rental, meaning you won’t be hit with unexpected costs.

Both packages feature a Line Only option on the Plusnet Home Phone, which includes free calls to other Plusnet Phone customers and Plusnet support at all times.

Plusnet features award-winning customer support that’s available 365 days a year, with customers being more satisfied than those of Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk.

These offers are for a limited time only, so act now to take advantage of the discounts.

For more information on Plusnet Unlimited Broadband and other Plusnet packages, check out Broadband Finder.

Over a two-week period, they worked to dig a 3km trench across his nearby 780-acre Ramsbury estate which would allow BT to run fibre cabling from the neighbouring village of Aldbourne.
 
Mr Persson and some of the other villagers had previously contacted the telecommunications giant about the frustratingly slow broadband speed they’d been experiencing but were told it would cost an eye-watering £170,000 for the relevant infrastructure to be installed.

This combined with the fact that the village was not to be included in BT’s planned rollout of superfast broadband in 2020 and 2021 across the area prompted Sweden’s richest man to take immediate action.

“We decided that it was not acceptable,” said Mr Persson’s estate manager Alistair Ewing. “So we thought OK, we will do all the digging and trenching and laying directly.”

Their joint efforts worked to knock an impressive £90,000 off the bill, reducing the price from £170,000 down to a considerably less £80,000.

“It was absolutely a very generous gesture,” said Axford resident Nick Swan. “Without the Ramsbury estate we would never be here. Without their help we would never have been able to have broadband in this village."

Last month, the government stated that high-speed broadband would become a legal right for everyone in the UK by 2020.

Source: The Telegraph

This new ruling comes as part of a brand-new Universal Service Obligation (or USO) which will legally require both small and large ISPs across the UK to supply broadband of at least 10Mbps to whoever requests it.

The government chose to reject an offer from BT in order to implement this USO which would’ve seen the telecommunication company voluntarily start to improve the state of broadband up and down the UK via its Openreach infrastructure.

A recently published report from regulatory board Ofcom revealed that around 1.1 million of UK properties are still unable to receive the broadband speeds required to adequately meet their needs.

It’s particularly a concern in the more rural, isolated areas of the UK where 17% of homes and businesses receive cripplingly slow broadband compared to just 2% of urban areas.

“This decision is welcome news, as consumers around the country simply want to know they will be able to access a broadband service,” said Alex Neil, managing director of home products and services at consumer body Which?

 “The Government must now move quickly to ensure consumers get these promised speeds by 2020 and closely monitor the programme to ensure it can keep pace with changing technology.”

Source: iNews

New customers can get Sky Broadband Unlimited for £20 per month for 12 months.

This price includes the line rental fee, meaning you won’t be hit with hidden charges. 

Sky Broadband Unlimited offers speeds of up to 17Mbps as well as completely unlimited downloads. 

This allows users to download anything they want without having to worry about monthly data caps.

Customers will also receive a prepaid MasterCard worth £50 when they sign up to any Sky Broadband package, including Sky Fibre Broadband and Sky Fibre Unlimited.

Sky Fibre Unlimited offers up to 38Mbps while Sky Fibre Max gets you up to 76Mbps, ideal for multiple users, streaming and online gaming.

Sky Broadband Unlimited offers a number of extras such as a free Sky-Q Hub, Sky Broadband Shield internet security and access to Sky WiFi at no extra cost. 

If you’re switching to Sky from another provider, the Sky Switch Squad makes this hassle-free and deals with the provider so you don’t have to. 

Sky is also number 1 for customer service compared to other providers, with help on hand online and by phone at any time.

Sky Broadband Unlimited and Fibre require a one off setup fee of £9.95 until December 28th.

For more information on Sky Broadband Unlimited and other Sky packages, check out Broadband Finder.

Located in the scenic Ceiriog Valley in Northern Wales, the small village of Pontfadog previously struggled to get speeds of any more than a few megabits.

The terrain surrounding the village is extremely rugged which made erecting any green street cabinets or digging trenches in order to lay fibre optic cables an impossibility.

Instead, engineers at Openreach formulated a plan to improve the state of Pontfadog’s broadband using the latest in drone technology.

As the device wasn’t big enough to lift the incredibly heavy fibre optic cables up between the telegraph poles, it was first used to string a length of 100m (or 328ft) fishing wire across them.

This fishing line was then attached to a draw rope, which in turn was secured to the fibre optic cables, and then pulled along the route the drone had already forged.

“It's a bit different to connecting an apartment block in London, that's for sure," said Openreach’s chief engineer Andy Whale.

The whole process only took the Openreach team a little over an hour and now means that the village’s twenty homes are now able to access broadband speeds of up to an impressive 1Gbps.

Source: BBC 

Residents of Benford Avenue in the small village of Newarthill experienced average broadband speeds of 177Mbps over the last 12 months.

That's quick enough to download a two-hour HD film in less than 5 minutes and a 45-minute episode of a HD TV show in a little over a minute and a half.

The nearby Airbles Crescent, which is located in the larger town of Motherwell only four miles away, was judged to have the 9th quickest broadband speeds with an average of 141Mbps.

Scotland did pretty well overall with five Scottish streets appearing in the top 30 and none appearing in the bottom 30.

This is thought to because they're able to access Virgin Media's superfast network which is technically capable of bringing residents speeds of up to a staggering 300Mbps.

On the other end of the scale, the street with the slowest broadband speeds in the UK is Thorpe Lane in Suffolk which manages to average just a “dire” 0.68Mbps.

Here it would take over 21 hours to download a two-hour HD film on Netflix and nearly eight hours to download a single episode of a 45-minute HD TV show.

“It is astonishing to think that you could fly to Sydney in Australia in the time it takes to download a film on the UK’s slowest street,” said Ewan Taylor-Gibson, broadband expert at uSwitch.

Source: Herald Scotland