UK Broadband Reviews

High-speed broadband ISP, BE has setup a Twitter profile to enable its customers to get information and updates about their service in short messages. The new communication tool will help the UK broadband service provider to alert its members of any outages or network problems as they crop up. Recently, the customers of O2 broadband and Orange mobile broadband were left without broadband access due to the outage on their networks. Fast communication tools like Twitter are useful when such outages happen and the users get frequent updates through their accounts. Here is the address of BE's Twitter profile which the customers can follow to get updates: http://twitter.com/BEStatus Oli White, Head of Marketing at BE Broadband, said: “We’re constantly looking for innovative new ways of communicating with our members using tools that are currently available. Twitter is perfect for sending out short messages to people that want to subscribe to them, so it was a natural fit for us to ...

Many UK broadband internet providers and other digital freedom activitists joined together to attack the government's new proposals to disconnect the broadband services of suspected illegal internet downloaders. In a open letter to The Times, the heads of leading UK ISP s including Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse, Ian Livingston of BT, Tom Alexander of Orange have criticised the the new anti-piracy policy of the government, drawn by the Business secretary, Lord Mendelson. The letter warned that disconnection is against freedom of internet users and this harsh measure failed in other countries due to protests from broadband users. The broadband ISP s have given a few suggestions on how to stop illegal file sharing over internet: "We must avoid an extra-judicial ‘kangaroo court’ process where evidence is not properly tested and accused broadband users are denied the right to defend themselves against false accusations. Without these protections innocent customers will s...

Virgin Media, the cable ISP has just reduced the price of its XXL package. This superfast broadband package offers up to 50 Mbps download speed and 1.5Mbps upload speed. New customers can get Virgin Media XXL broadband package on two options: as a standalone broadband or a bundled offer with Virgin Phone M package. If you take Virgin Media XXL broadband only package, the new price will be £33 per month for the first 3 months and £38 thereafter. However the same broadband package will cost just £18 per month for the first 3 months and £28 thereafter, when you take it with Phone M plan. Virgin Media broadband packages (Virgin Media L and Virgin Media XL and XXL) offer unlimited downloads, free wireless router, online storage etc. With XXL package, you also get free installation, Unlimited weekend calls to UK landline numbers (with Phone M package) and maximum speeds not managed by any policy even during peak hours.

UK broadband provider , Orange has released a broadband survey that predicts greater population changes in UK cities and regions by 2015 due to increased broadband services and universal broadband access in UK, making the employees to move to their preferred locations. Digital Britain aims to provide minimum 2Mbps broadband service to everyone in UK by 2012. If UK successfully completes this project, there could be change in UK population map as people would move to lesser populated areas with broadband access, the study reports According to the findings, some major cities and regions will see their population become less dense. For instance, cities in East and West Midlands and parts of North like Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester which have high-speed internet access facilities will be less populated as 80 percent of residents could move to other regions like mountains or coasts. These regions would provide broadband access in five years from now. Broadband infrastructure will contin...