09:18 pm - October 8th, 2008 by Sean
Be, the O2-owned ISP, has begun allowing its users to customised their broadband connections to prioritise the line towards their favoured activities.
There are four settings on offer. Standard, for everyday broadband use; speed, for watching videos and iPlayer; reliability, recommended for surfing the web for information and VoIP and gaming, which ensures the quickest possible
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07:46 pm - August 6th, 2004 by Sam
LTT have today announced a new service called ChoiceNet that allows users to customise their downstream, upstream, contention ratio and additional extras both before buying and during live service. The wireless operator currently provides service to areas in Kent, Sussex and Surrey, and is in the process of expanding to other areas.
The product builder on
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06:05 pm - July 10th, 2004 by Sam
UK-Bug are continuing their monthly competitions with the opportunity to win a years free subscription to Eclipse’s new FLEX ADSL service. The prize, worth over £380 in total, also includes free activation and hardware. All you have to do to win is decipher the accronym ‘ADSL’ (Hint: Google for it!).
If you want a shot at
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08:02 pm - July 2nd, 2004 by Sam
BT Wholesale have today announced the next 150 exchanges to be enabled for their SDSL products.
SDSL is targetted at small businesses who need to be able to send data just as fast as they can receive it. This can be very useful for sending very large emails, voice over IP, and video conferencing.
This news has
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12:30 pm - June 11th, 2004 by Sam
Following the migration price cuts that came into effect on the 1st May, BT have now reduced the pricing for regrades between IPStream products. the wholesale charge has been reduced from £35 to £11. The original pricing notification to Ofcom can be found here.
This, coupled with last months announcement, means that a DataStream user with
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12:39 pm - June 1st, 2004 by Sam
Eclipse Internet have today launched a new range of ADSL services that offer flexible bandwidth to end users. Customers are charged a flat monthly rate and can temporarily increase their speed by “FLEX”ing - for a small hourly charge. There is no monthly data usage cap on any of the products.
The following table depicts the
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07:38 pm - April 27th, 2004 by Sam
Since the pre-registration scheme was introduced back in June 2002, 909,087 unique pre-registrations have been entered into BT’s systems. As a result of this, 2734 exchanges will have been enabled (includes those with RFS dates). Since the November 17th announcement of 2300 new trigger levels, BT have seen an unprecedented number of exchanges triggering. Six
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