After recent OFCOM research highlighted the growth of broadband access across rural Britain, a new piece of research has come out which states that rural broadband users experience much slower download speeds than their city counterparts. UK analyst thinkbroadband.com has revealed the results of a large nationwide broadband te...

Government watchdog OfCom has devised a voluntary scheme for the benefit of Broadband consumers. The scheme, which over 30 companies have signed up for, will mean that providers have to be up front about Broadband speeds and allow their customers to drop down to lower speeds if they are not happy with the package they have signed up for. The code has been devised following a rise in co...

According to a recent Guardian article, broadband prices in the UK are set to rise. The main problem at the moment concerns BT’s Openreach unit, which was set up in 2005 to allow other providers to use their lines. The system allows other companies to rent out the lines in order to take control of the lines of their own customers.

According to a recent article in The Independent, Carphone Warehouse is going one step further in the attempt to increase its customer base for its broadband services, by introducing a new offer of a free laptop when certain broadband packages from 3, T-Mobile, Orange and its own product, Talk Talk, are purchased. The move is s...

If you are the type of person who can’t bear to be without online access at all times, then you may be interested in the newly launched BT Total Broadband Anywhere package. Why waste time waiting for a bus or for the kids to emerge from school when you could be checking your emails, researching your holiday or booking theatre tickets? For only £23.99 a month you could subscribe to the...