The highly anticipated launch of the UK’s biggest mobile network O2 into the treacherous world of the ISP market has been delayed further, but for no official reason. It is now likely to be launched for customers to sign up in October 2007, which is ten months later than planned. There are numerous possible reasons for the delay, one of the principle ones being the very poor second ...

In a recent development, BT head, Sir Christopher Bland, has indicated that his company hopes to be able to provide customers with broadband speeds of between 40 and 50MB per second in the not-too-distant future. His assertion came in a recent interview with the Financial Times. Whilst the telecoms giant has not taken a firm decision on the matt...

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 f...