Millions of broadband customers across the UK have to pay extra for the service because they live in the 'wrong' area, according to uSwitch.com. The independent price comparison website last week identified AOL as the latest in a growing line of internet service providers (ISPs) that have adopted a pricing strategy which includes an ...

BT has been re-crowned as the nation's favourite broadband retailer, after new figures reveal that it now provides for 3.66 million customers, 26 per cent of the overall broadband market. Posting its profits for the first quarter, BT indicated that it had received 245,000 new broadband customers on top of the 195,000 gained through the acquisition of PlusNet. Snaring 29 per cent of all...

BT will permanently retire its Business Highway, Home Highway, ISDN2 and ISDN30 products on 31st July 2007, highlighting the diminishing importance of ISDN in today's world. Now regarded as an "older technology", ISDN is losing out to broadband as costs continue to fall and connection speeds increase. A BT spokesman explained that consumer ISDN was being withdrawn because "the demand for it h...

The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), an industry-government strategy group for broadband issues, has warned that the UK is falling behind on Next Generation Access (NGA) networks. The warnings are stark - if the UK cannot keep pace with industry innovations, the British economy could slow as a result. Existing infrastructure, and the network products currently being rolled out, will soon be ...

Why were new rules announced? Over 11 million people in Britain are currently using Broadband internet and this figure is growing rapidly. There are many competitive services which provide Broadband to all these users and so it is necessary that users can easily switch over from one company to another to suit their needs. The cost comparison website USwitch has estimated th...