UK telecommunication News

O2 Broadband Launch

After a long delay O2 have finally launched their Broadband access packages. If you sign up before the 21^st January 2008, you have a 100 day money back guarantee.

The service will be powered by Be Unlimited using their ADSL2+ technology.

Packages range from £17.50 (£7.50 for existing mobile contracts) for 8Mb to £25 (£15 for O2 mobile contracted clients) for 20Mbs. There is an “unlimited” Fair Usage policy in force but this is somewhat vague and needs further reading. What is clear though that once you are outside the 100 day money back period you are in a12 month contract with a £50 early cancellation fee.

BT and ADSL2+

BT plan to have ADSL2+ available to 5% of the UK customer base by April 2008 covering as much as 50% by 2009.

Three trials will commence, starting Oct 1^st in the Midlands, to get the best out of the 21 Century Network and to introduce next generation broadband services, offering high speed broadband at up to 24Mbps, to the UK.

The good news is that you may not have to wait until your telephone service is switched over to the 21^st Century Network, due to complete in 2010, you may still be able to get ADSL2+ products before then.

.Skype and Santa Claus

How big is your Christmas stocking? Mobile operator 3 is hoping that it is big enough to hold their new SKYPE handset.

Is this move a radical step to mobilise internet calls for a mass market?

3 already offers access to free Skype calling through its x-series phones, launched in 2006 it failed to jumpstart mass market mobile Internet. It uses the voice channel to connect to the phone mast before the network converts the call to true VoIP.

The new handset will close the gap between Internet Communications and Mobile Calling.

Brussels wants level broadband

Growing increasingly concerned over the widening gap between the best Broadband countries and the Worst, for example a report shows Denmark with 37.2% of households with Broadband access whereas Bulgaria only has 5.7%, the European Commission are drawing up plans to level out the performance across the European Union.

More Businesses take line rental away from BT

More and more businesses are taking the advantage of taking the management of their lines away from BT to a plethora of alternative providers.

If you have a business with a BT line think about it, BT still service and repair the line while the alternative provider charges you less for your line rental. The same line, the same services for less money, in today’s competitive market and the squeeze on profits every business in the country should be following this course of action.

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