Despite promises of "unlimited" broadband, internet service providers (ISPs) will disconnect customers who are considered to be using their broadband "excessively", a study by independent price comparison service uSwitch.com has revealed. The research revealed that 250,000 people switch broadband providers every month, but that 71 per cent o...

The Post Office has announced that it will be launching a new broadband service later this year, after agreeing a deal with BT Wholesale. Under the £750 million four year deal, BT Wholesale will provide the Post Office with an integrated range of telephony and broadband services. It is expected that the Post Office will be able to provide customers with high speed internet connections ...

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 A BT spokesman explained that consumer ISDN was being withdrawn because "the demand for it h...