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
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: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2021 Three of Britain’s biggest internet providers have told the regulator that broadband customers … Read more
People in rural parts of the UK who are testing SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband network have responded positively, with one user calling the service ‘amazing’. UK users have reported huge jumps in speed after switching to Starlink, which is operated by SpaceX – the firm owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk – and powered by … Read more
Astronauts are outside the International Space Station installing a British-built terminal that will allow them to connect to the internet at broadband speeds. NASA’s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins started the 6.5 hour mission at 11:28 GMT, just over half an hour earlier than the originally projected 12:05 GMT start time. Over the course of … 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 By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 17:12 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 17:13 GMT, 26 January 2021 Sky broadband appears to have crashed for thousands of users across the UK as part of what seems to be a mass outage. More to follow… Share … 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
Gavin Williamson ‘turned down an offer from BT to provide children from disadvantaged backgrounds with cheaper broadband as pupils across the country switched to remote learning’ Gavin Williamson ‘refused offer to supply free or cheap broadband to children’ CEO of BT’s consumer brands, Marc Allera, said they offered Wi-Fi vouchers The Department of Education ‘declined’ … Read more