With over 13 million UK households now switched onto broadband, and more than four million new internet subscriptions in the last two years alone, it will come as no surprise that Britons are becoming addicted to the net. According to a new study by independent switching service uSwitch.com, the average UK internet user spends 15 hou...

The latest carrot to be dangled by those reliable old Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is not the usual free connection offer, nor is it free hardware, not even free internet, but free laptops. AOL UK has teamed up with The Carphone Warehouse and is offering brand new Dell laptops worth up to £500 absolutely free to new customers. All you have to do is sign up for a two year contract ...

A recent poll by the website BroadbandChoices has suggested that internet users in the United Kingdom are largely ignorant of the advantages associated with wireless broadband. Wireless broadband – otherwise known as WiFi, provides internet users with a number of benefits. Wireless internet connections preclude the need for...

It was only a matter of time before Tesco joined the world of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Tesco began in the 1920s as a mere market-stall in London’s East End and has gone on to control over a third of the UK’s grocery market, notching extraordinary profits of over £2.5 billion in 2007 alone. Tesco plans to conquer the US has secured 100 sites ready for the end of 2007 for the US ve...

In a worrying development, a survey by Moneymarket.com has revealed that almost 20% of broadband customers are not receiving the high-speed internet services that they paid for when subscribing. Internet speeds were found to be markedly below the levels advertised by providers, leaving many consumers cheated. Rural subscribers, wh...