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.
Monday, October 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”.
Monday, October 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.
Sunday, October 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.
Thursday, October 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.
Wednesday, October 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.
Tuesday, October 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.
Monday, October 5, 2009
The upcoming Ukraine V England match on Saturday October 10th will only be shown exclusively on the internet instead of the standard television broadcast.
The England World Cup qualifying match against Ukraine was due to be shown by Setanta Sports, but due to the Irish broadcaster going bust earlier this year, the match was left on the shelf.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Virgin Media have announced that they will be launching two new mobile broadband packages to customers.
The two new tariffs include flexible contracts where subscribers only agree to a rolling 2-month contract, with strings attached.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Mobile broadband provider O2 will begin trials of a new mobile broadband technology that will reach speeds of up to 340Mbps.
Known as Long Term Evolution (LTE), the new mobile broadband technology will be trialled in the UK before Summer of next year.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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