Who holds the broadband trumps?
July 17, 2006 at 10:20 am
Sky is gambling that consumers will want to sign up to a complete package of telecoms and entertainment services. But, writes Andrew Murray-Watson, no one is quite sure that such demand really exists
On Tuesday, British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite broadcaster, will park its tanks on the lawns of Britain’s largest telecoms companies with the launch of a new high-speed internet service.
Sky Broadband is likely to be free to customers who take out a hefty Sky subscription TV service and the roll-out of the service will be backed by the full weight of the broadcaster’s formidable marketing machine.
The Sunday Telegraph also understands that Sky will offer broadband speeds above the 8Mb offered by all its main rivals, including BT, in localities where it has already installed its own technology in BT’s exchanges – a process known as local loop unbundling.
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THUS jumps to 8mbps with ADSL
July 11, 2006 at 10:22 am
THUS has launched a new range of Demon broadband packages with faster download speeds of up to 8Mbps, aimed at small to medium-sized businesses and home workers.
Demon up to 8Mbps ADSL broadband will be available nationwide, delivering high-performance Internet connectivity with key business features and superior quality of service at competitive prices.
Demon up to 8Mbps broadband services perfectly complement THUS’ already comprehensive business portfolio, particularly Demon Voice Over Broadband where faster speeds can support simultaneous voice over broadband connections.
For a fixed monthly fee, Demon customers can capitalise on the benefits of business broadband while experiencing downstream line speeds of up to 8Mbps and upstream speeds of up to 832kbps.
This is ideal for businesses with a requirement to send and receive large files and rich media content in seconds.
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Tiscali cleared over broadband speed claims
July 5, 2006 at 10:27 am
has successfully fought off complaints that it was not able to supply the broadband speeds advertised in a national magazine campaign.
The complaints were levelled at the internet service provider by members of the public from Middlesex and West Lothian who had subscribed to its broadband services.
Tiscali’s ad offered ‘up to 1Mbps’ and ‘up to 2Mbps’ packages and the complainants challenged whether this was misleading, because they believed that Tiscali could not provide the full rates of those services.
The ISP maintained that its residential broadband is a contended service where customers share the 1Mbps and 2Mbps bandwidths.
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