Most of the bigger broadband providers are gaining customers, but Orange broadband has been having a sticky period for a while now, with customer numbers down from 1.142 million customers in September 2007, to 1.063 million at the end of June 2008. In the last quarter the total number of subscribers was 2.5% down, what [...]

Virgin Media says it will make fibre optic broadband available for resale via the dealer channel later this year

Virgin Media is planning a major roll out of its fibre optic broadband offering to the dealer channel this year.
Virgin Media sales director Rob Shardlow (pictured left) said consumer offers will be attractive for customers and sales [...]

Thirty percent of broadband users in Britain would rather give up their magazine subscriptions, cigarettes and alcohol than their broadband connection, a recent survey by Plusnet reveals. 92% of those questioned said they wanted to keep their broadband connection despite the current economic slowdown, with more than half (58%) keen to stick with their current [...]

The first quarter results for Carphone Warehouse have also been released today, and they are announcing a cautious outlook, with expectations lower than originally anticipated. This quarter saw the TalkTalk brand gain a net 86,000 customers, but this fell to 41,000 when combined with AOL, leading to an expected growth of only 200,000 to 250,000 [...]

BT’s first quarter results for 2008/9 have been released today and show continued growth within the broadband and other markets. BT Retail added 103,000 broadband customers in the last quarter bringing their total end users up to 4.5 million at the end of June 2008, accounting for 35% of the market. The 103,000 account for [...]

People often complain about never having a chance to make their voice heard, and that the massive corporations will be the only ones with a say. Following on from last weeks news of a Memorandum of Understanding that will see broadband providers sending out letters to people who are thought to be sharing material in [...]

Sky is launching a new music retail company in partnership with the world’s biggest record company, Universal.
BSkyB and Vivendi will create a joint venture to operate the scheme; Universal will acquire equity in the company while Sky holds the majority stake. The pair said today that they hope to attract partners.
The music will be DRM-free [...]

Time for people looking for mobile broadband solutions to get the calculators out to decide whether the next round of free laptop deals that are on the way from 3 are worth taking.
MobileToday.co.uk reveals that in addition to 3 offering a free laptop in an offer starting in August 2008, Vodafone and Orange are not [...]

The partnership between Sony and Sky to bring films and TV content to the Sony PSP games console has come to fruition. The site where people can register and subscribe to the package of their choice is www.goview.tv.
The service relies on the use of a Windows XP or Vista computer to download the material to, [...]

BT is to invest £1.5bn in fibre optic cables, giving up to 10 million UK households access to faster broadband.
The plans would bring 40% of homes in reach of an ultra-fast service by 2012.
BT is also planning to put fibre-optic cable into about 1 million homes, making the service even faster for those customers.
However, the [...]