O2 have today announced the launch of a new tech support resource for mobile broadband customers called ‘Techies’.
The Techies service will enable small business customers access to technical experts should they encounter any issues or problems with their mobile broadband or other O2 services.
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Popular digital music streaming service Spotify has partnered with 3 UK to offer the Spotify application on upcoming 3 mobile phones.
The partnership aims to help Spotify “significantly improve its portability”.
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
New TalkTalk customers who sign up to the TalkTalk Essentials broadband and phone package before October 31st will receive free connection – a saving of £29.99.
The Talk Talk Essentials package includes fast broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps with a 40GB monthly download allowance and unlimited evening and weekend calls to UK landlines.
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Sky UK and Universal Music have today announced plans to launch Sky Songs, a new legal music download service.
Sky Songs will launch in the UK on October 19th and will offer users access to new music releases alongside back catalogues from every major music label, independent label and distributors.
Sun, Oct 11, 2009
BT have this week announced that they are to more than double the planned roll-out of their fast fibre-optic broadband service to some 2.5 million homes by 2012.
BT’s fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) roll-out will offer customers download speeds of up to 100Mb with the capacity for 1GB a future possibility.
Sat, Oct 10, 2009
O2 have today reduced the cost of their pay as you go mobile broadband dongle to have price. O2’s PAYG mobile broadband service is now priced at just £14.67.
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
Earlier this week O2 announced plans to begin throttling Peer 2 Peer and Newsgroup connections on their O2 Home Access (BT based) broadband package.
Today, O2 have spoken out on the restrictions by promising that actual connection speeds for file-sharers won’t be reduced during their new peak time restrictions that begin on Saturday.
Wed, Oct 7, 2009
As you’ve probably already heard, England’s World Cup qualifying match against Ukraine on Saturday will not be broadcast on TV, but instead streamed live over the internet.
Available on a pay-to-view basis, the Ukraine v England game will be the first ever England international match to be streamed exclusively live across the internet.
The match will be broadcast live at 5.15pm on Saturday 10th October from www.ukrainevengland.com, with subscriptions prices starting at £4.99 and increasing to £11.99 if you order on the day of the game.
Wed, Oct 7, 2009
UK provider Eclipse Internet are offering broadband optimisation to customers wanting to watch the Ukraine v England match online this Saturday.
The 2010 World Cup qualifier is only viewable online, where it will be streamed live from www.ukrainevengland.com
Eclipse Internet allows their customers to prioritise their broadband connection, giving them greater control in optimising video streaming for the match.
Tue, Oct 6, 2009
Like other fixed-line broadband providers, O2 broadband has now begun limiting the amount of bandwidth available to Peer 2 Peer services like BitTorrent, Gnutella, and KaZaa.
O2 are also restricting popular newsgroup services like Giganews and NetNews.
Mobile broadband is a type of high speed wireless broadband internet access. Mobile broadband allows internet users to connect to the internet from any point within their WiFi network area, eliminating the need to run cables from room to room.
A mobile broadband service is often useful for customers who move home frequently or for those who live in rural areas and struggle with their current connection speeds from their local telephone exchange.
Mobile broadband users access the wireless network through the use of a USB modem or data card that is supplied along with a SIM card allowing access to the internet at broadband speeds.
Cable broadband services use the same coaxial cables that are used to provide cable TV and phone services into homes. In order to access the broadband data signals sent via the cable network, customers use a cable modem.
A typical cable modem is capable of providing data transfer rates of up to 50 Mbps for downloads and around 20Mbps for upload speeds.
Transfer speeds ofcourse are dependent upon the broadband service provider you select and ofcourse the individual broadband package you choose.
Tue, Oct 27, 2009
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