AOL price reduction

Great news if you live outside the AOL network area but you want to get AOL broadband!

The price of AOL Broadband Silver has been reduced from £24.99 to £19.99 a month! (It's still only £14.99 per month if you live in within their network).

Reasons to sign up with AOL Broadband:

• one month free broadband if you sign up online
• FREE wireless router worth over £55
  
• 2MB broadband from £14.99 (£19.99 in non-LLU regions)
• FREE evening and weekend calls for 18 months (usually £3.99 per month)

Visit my broadband comparison website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com to see which AOL broadband packages you can get in your area. Or go straight to the AOL broadband website.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Comparing broadband gets easier

Do you find that the thought of trawling through loads of broadband packages puts you off finding or switching to a great broadband deal?

Visit www.ukbroadbandfinder.com, where you can compare broadband in your area.

You could already search on home or business broadband, and opt to view summary or full package information.

Well, now you can also search just broadband bundles, or just broadband-only packages, so you can narrow down your broadband search from your first click of the Find button.

Don't worry, if you just want to see eveything broadband available in your area you can select All and view bundles and standalone broadband packages.

And to make it even easier, you can also filter broadband packages on your results page - there's a dropdown at the top of the page that lets you filter on speed, price, broadband type, and alphabetical provider.

So visit www.ukbroadbandfinder.com now and find the best broadband deal for you.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Eclipse Internet goes carbon neutral

Home and business broadband provider Eclipse Internet has announced that it is is now fully carbon neutral!

This is just the first step in Eclipse’s campaign to reduce carbon emissions as the broadband provider works to reduce the environmental impact of its broadband business.

Eclipse Internet residential broadband starts at only £14.99 per month. Choose from Eclipse Home broadband, with the freedom to download as much as you like (you simply pay £1.75 per GB over your download limit - If you don’t want to exceed a certain limit you can set your own usage budget online) or Eclipse Evolution broadband, and pay a fixed amount each month.

Eclipse business broadband starts at only £19.99 per month (plus VAT) for a small office broadband package. Or go for a really robust SDSL data line, starting at £125 per month (plus VAT).

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Free Talk with AOL broadband

AOL broadband has a great new offer (on top of the free wireless router and one month free when you sign up online...)

AOL broadband sign up to AOL Broadband now and get AOL Evening and Weekend Talk FREE OF CHARGE (usually £3.99 a month) for the next 12 months!

AOL Broadband Silver - only £14.99 per month
AOL Broadband Platinum - only £24.99 per month

Not for you? Then visit my UK broadband website and compare broadband in your area.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Broadband under 10 pounds a month

Looking for a cheap broadband deal? There are now several low cost broadband packages available.

Some are basic broadband packages, suitable for web surfing, email and some downloading.

Others are cheap introductory offers for the first few months, or first year, to give you a start with broadband.

And some are bundles where you get really cheap - or even free - broadband if you take another pay-for service.

• Tiscali up to 1 meg broadband with Free Weekend Calls: £7.99 per month (plus non included call charges)
• BT Total Broadband Option 1: £8.95 per month for six months, then £17.99 per month
• Virgin Media Size M: £10 per month for first year (then standard price, currently £18 per month)
• TalkTalk Talk 3 phone plan with up to 8Mb broadband FREE: call package £8.99 per month
• TalkTalk Talk3 International phone plan with up to 8 Meg broadband FREE: call package £8.99 per month
• PlusNet Broadband Your Way Option 1: £9.99 per month for up to 8 meg broadband
• UK Online Up to 1mb unlimited broadband: from £9.99 per month
• PipexMini up to 8 meg broadband: FREE with Anytime call plan (£12.50 per month - includes free local and national calls)
• PipexMini up to 8 Mb broadband: broadband on its own, only £9.99 per month
  

Not for you? Then visit my UK broadband website and compare broadband in your area.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Tiscali broadband from £7. 99

Broadband and phone specialist Tiscali have reduced the price of Tiscali 1MB broadband from £9.99 to just £7.99, for the first 3 months!

After three months, it costs £12.99 per month.

The 1MB broadband package includes:

• Unlimited time online (fair use policy applies)
• up to 1 meg download speed
• Free modem and connection
• Free email anti-spam and anti-virus
• Free UK weekend calls

Find out more or buy up to 1 meg Tiscali broadband now.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Broadband for Macs

Got an Apple Mac? Looking for a broadband package that works with Macs? Most UK broadband packages are Mac-compatible - but if you sign up and you have a Mac you may not always get the same level of support that pc users would get on the same package.

There's a new article on my broadband availability website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com which loosk at some of the most popular UK broadband providers and ISPs, and how well their services work with Macs.

Read the article Broadband for Macs now.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Free install on some leased lines from Telecomplete

Looking for reliable business broadband? Check out Telecomplete and their innovative, flexible business solutions.

And until 13 August 2007, there's FREE installation on 0207 2Mb Fully Managed Leased Lines from Telecomplete!

A 1 year term costs £5,400. There's:

• FREE fully managed and pre-configured Cisco 1700 series router with ISDN back-up
• Multiple fixed IP addressing
• Domain, email and web
• 24x7x365 pro-active monitoring of all circuits
• 24x7x365 technical support
• 99.95% service level agreement

They also have competitive Leased Lines across the whole of the UK - including LES circuits and free installs on selected P2P.

To find out more or to buy, please call Telecomplete on 0845 456 1116 or email them on sales@telecomplete.co.uk Please quote dealer number 2354 when you contact them so they know you have come from UK Broadband Finder.

If you're after a cheaper, ADSL business broadband service, Telecomplete has a range of packages available - starting at only £19.99 per month for up to 8 meg ADSL broadband with 2 Gig download allowance - with renewal only £16.99 per month.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

More superfast broadband packages

More broadband providers are starting to offer superfast broadband deals (10 meg and above). Check some of them out below.

Virgin broadband via Cable Size: XL, up to 10 meg, now only £29 per month for 12 months. Offer ends 30/06/07.

Up to 16 meg. Sign up for a Sky bundle and if you select the MAX broadband option you can get up to 16 meg. Package prices vary.

Unlimited Broadband from UK Online for only £24.99 per month. With 22Mb there's no limit to what you can do online.

With Be Broadband you could get up to 24Mb download speed for only £14 to £24 a month! Be Unlimited, Be Lite, and Be Pro.

Make sure you check broadband availability in your area as these superfast packages may not be available to everyone. To do this, visit my broadband comparison website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com - you can search on your BT phone number, or postcode (best if you're looking for cable broadband). Then filter your results by speed to find which are the fastest packages.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Getting started with broadband

New to broadband and not sure which broadband package to sign up to?

Visit my broadband comparison website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com and check out my new article for people just starting out with broadband.

With so many broadband packages and ISPs out there it can be confusing to know where to start - and then how to narrow down your search, particularly if you live in an urban area and have access to loads of different broadband providers and types of broadband (ADSL, cable...)

New to broadband helps you work out what you want from your broadband package - so you don't end up paying for facilities or extras that you don't need.

Then compare broadband in your area with our broadband avialability checker.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Help for broadband switchers

Are you looking to switch broadband providers? Find out how you can make it as painless as possible - read my new article on Switching broadband providers.

It looks at the different switching methods, whether you're switching from cable to ADSL, ADSL to ADSL, or ADSL to cable - and recent Ofcom regulation which aims to make it easier for you to switch to another broadband package.

So if you're with BT but you want to be with AOL, or you're with Orange and you want to sign up to Virgin Media, check out my new article on how to switch broadbabnd providers.

Visit www.ukbroadbandfinder.com for broadband in your area, articles, a broadband speedtest, and more.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

free sky installation ends 30 June

Want Sky TV? Then order before 30 June 2007 and get free standard installation.

Here's how - order SKY TV, OR order one of their SKY bundles (TV, Broadband and Talk, known as See, Speak, Surf), select the MAX broadband option, check the final price, and if you're happy with your bundle, order online - and you'll get free standard installation.

Hurry now, free standard installation ends 30th June

Visit the Sky website now.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

BT 1000 pound draw extended

You could still win £1000 in one of their daily prize draws if you sign up to BT Total Broadband. That's because they have extended the deadline to 26 June 2007.

BT broadband packages start at only £8.95 a month for the first six months with BT Total Broadband Option 1 (then £17.99 per month, 18 month contract).

To go into the draw you have to order a residential BT Total Broadband package ONLINE by 26 June 2007.

Looking for a different broadband package? Compare broadband in your area at www.ukbroadbandfinder.com

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Sky bundles from 15 pounds a month

Want broadband, phone and TV for only £15 per month? Then check out Sky bundles.

All these packages come with:

• FREE wireless router
• 10 sky.com email addresses
• 12 months' free McAfee security

Sky See, Surf, Speak for £15 per month
Includes 2 entertainment mixes. Up to 2Mb download speed. 2GB monthly download allowance.

Sky See, Surf, Speak for £26 per month
Includes 6 entertainment mixes. Up to 8Mb download speed. 40GB monthly download allowance.

Sky See, Speak, Surf for £34 a month
Includes 2 entertainment mixes plus Sports. Up to 2Mb download speed. 2GB monthly download allowance.

Sky See, Surf, Speak for £48.50 per month
includes 6 entertainment mixes plus Sports and Movies. Up to 8Mb download speed. 40GB monthly download allowance.

Availability is subject to your location, compatible line and equipment, and survey.

Packages can be bought with the FREE standard Sky box, or the life changing Sky Plus or the revolutionary Sky HD.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

BT Business Total Broadband is here

BT business broadband has come back bigger and better, starting at only £19.99 per month - with a fantastic package of extras.

Now known as BT Business Total Broadband, there are four packages aimed at small to medium sized businesses - all with up to 8 meg download speed. Check out the different options:

Option 1 - £19.99 per month for 3 months, then £21.99 per month. Ideal for individuals or smaller businesses.
Option 2 - £26.99 per month. With business Hub, free wifi minutes and unlimited downloads.
Option 3 - £40.50. With enhanced security and enhanced support.
Network - £58.50 per month. Seamlessly connect 5-20 users to broadband - backed with service level guarantees.

(All price are ex-VAT. Option 1 price is for 12 months, and Options 2 and 3 are for 24 month contracts though 12 month contracts are available for those options too.)

Plus you'll also get:

• Free business grade VoIP line worth £60 per year
• Free anti-virus and anti-spam protection
• Includes email and webspace worth £35 per year
• Free extranet to store and share information worth
• £45 per year
• No connection charge

Looking for BT Total Broadband for the home? Click here.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Telecomplete is ISP of the year

Telecomplete, the business broadband and services provider, has won the prestigious ISP of the Year for the second year in a row at the recent Comms Business Awards.

Telecomplete offers business broadband from only £19.99 per month for 2Gb download allowance. All of their packages offer up to 8 meg download speed.

And if you are migrating to Telecomplete from an existing ADSL provider you pay even less each month than a new ADSL connection!

View Telecomplete business broadband packages now.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Free router with Sky See Speak Surf

Sign up for See, Speak and Surf - that's Sky broadband, TV and phone and get a FREE wireless router. This bundle is only £26 per month plus £11 line rental, and a one-off activation fee of only £20.

Sky TV

• All six Entertainment Mixes bringing you digital channels dedicated to the best in variety, knowledge, style and culture, news and events, music and kid’s programmes.

Sky Broadband

• superfast download speeds of up to 8Mb (Top speeds may vary significantly depending on distance from local exchange and line quality)
• monthly usage allowance of 40GB – ideal for everyday browsing, and downloading music and movies
• FREE Wireless Sky Router

Sky Talk Freetime

• FREE evening and weekend calls to UK landlines†.
• You simply pay BT for your line rental and Sky for any other calls you make.

Click here for SKY See, Surf and Speak

Want a different Sky mix?

• 3 for £15 - 2 mixes, free talktime and up to 2mb broadband
• 3 for £26 - 6 mixes, free talktime and up to 8mb broadband
• 3 for £34 - 2 mixes plus Sky Sports, free talktime and up to 2mb broadband
• 3 for £48.50 - 6 mixes plus Sky Sports and Sky movies, free talktime and up to 8mb broadband

Check out the different Sky bundles here

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Virgin Media broadband and bundles

Virgin Media are sponsoring this year's Big Brother.

They're famous for Quadplay (broadband, TV, phone and mobile). But they also offer a wide range of standalone broadband (cable and non-cable), digital TV, and double and triple play bundles. They are also offering some great deals:

£8 a month off Virgin Media cable broadband:
Size M for £10 per month for 12 months (then usual price of £18 per month). Size L for £17 per month for 12 months (then usual price of £25 per month). Size XL for £29 per month for 12 months (then usual price of £37 per month). (Ends 30/06/07)

Free TV without a monthly subscription if you are outside their cable area and sign up for Unlimited Broadband & Talk Bundle One.

Visit Virgin Media now.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Dial up packages

Looking to get online every now and again don't want broadband? Or maybe you still can't receive broadband where you live? A dial up (or narrowband) service may be the answer.

Some dial up internet access is charged by the amount of time you spend online (a pay as you go, or PAYG, package) while others have a fixed monthly fee.

1. AOL Anytime: £19.99 per month

• One month FREE trial
  
• No minimum contract
• Unlimited time online with no internet call charges
• Download speed up to 56kb
• Faster and more reliable surfing with AOL TopSpeed™ and Auto-Reconnect
• Enhanced email with up to seven email addresses
• Inclusive Safety & Security Centre with anti-virus scanning on emails, spam filters, pop-up blockers and Parental Controls
• Online support at no extra cost

Find out more or sign up for AOL Anytime

2. Orange Dial Up Anytime - go online as often as you like

• £14.99 per month
• no connection charge
• no 12 month contract
• security, email and webspace
• technical support is 50p a minute from a BT line
• won't work with cable phone
• Payment by Direct Debit; £1 monthly charge for payment by Visa, MasterCard, Delta or American Express
  

Find out more or sign up for Orange Dial up Anytime

3. Orange Dial up Pay As You Go - only pay for what you use

• costs 1p a minute all weekend, 2p a minute weekday evenings (6pm-6am), and 4p a minute weekday daytime (6am-6pm)
• no 12 month contract
• security, email and webspace
• technical support is 50p a minute from a BT line
• works with cable!
• charges appear on your phone bill

Find out more or sign up for Orange Dial up Pay As You Go

Speed up your dialup
If you can't get broadband where you live, you may still be able to speed up your web browsing. An internet accelerator such as Onspeed can help you surf the web more speedily whether you are on dial up, up to 2 meg broadband, or mobile internet.

Onspeed doesn't actually speed up your internet service - it compresses each webpage or email so it downloads to your computer more quickly. Onspeed costs only £24.99 per year (you will still have to pay for any dial up, broadband or mobile service you use).
Find out more about Onspeed.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Compare broadband packages today

Orange released a report this week that found that 61% of UK households couldn't live without their broadband connection.

You can read more about this study on my UK Broadband News blog.

Are you one of the remaining 39%? If you haven't yet got broadband, or you are with a broadband provider but you want to switch to a faster or cheaper package, visit my broadband comparison website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com. Use the free broadband checker to find broadband availability in your area by searching on your BT phone number or postcode.

Broadband-only packages start at only £8.95 a month, for BT Option 1. Or if you're after speed rather than the cheapest package, check out Be (up to 24 meg), UK Online (up to 22 meg), or Virgin Media (up to 20 meg, rolling out in some areas this summer).

I started this post with Orange - and they now offer broadband as well as mobile phones:

• Broadband Starter is only £14.99 per month for up to 2 meg, and comes with a 30 day money-back guarantee, useful if you're new to broadband.
• Orange Broadband Unlimited is £19.99 a month for up to 8 meg, and includes unlimited downloads (subject to a fair use policy). Plus unlimited UK and international landline calls.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

UK Online free set up offer extended

The UK Online free set up offer has been extended - you can now get FREE SET UP on their two fastest home broadband packages.

Sign up to UK Online Superfast 22 Meg Broadband or UK Online up to 8 meg broadband and you won't have to pay for connection - a saving of £25. This offer now ends on 30 June 2007.

The 22 meg package costs £24.99 per month, and the 8 meg package only £19.99 per month.

Find out more about UK Online packages now.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Free line rental from Tiscali

Tiscali Max with Anytime Talk now includes FREE line rental!

The package includes up to 8 meg broadband and free UK calls (to 01 and 02 numbers).

Sign up for:

Broadband benefits

• Download speeds up to 8Mb
• Only £19.99 per month
• Unlimited monthly usage (subject to fair usage policy)
• FREE modem and connection
• FREE email anti-spam and anti-virus
• Use for: superfast surfing; superfast, unlimited downloads; download music videos in seconds; live streaming; watch high quality movie clips; responsive online gaming
  

Talk benefits

• All local and national UK calls included (Applies when calling UK numbers beginning with 01 and 02 only.)
• Low cost rates on all other calls
• FREE line rental!
  
• Keep your existing number
• FREE itemised billing
• Calls charged per second
  
• A 3p minimum call charge applies to all chargeable calls.
  

Find out more about Tiscali Max and Anytime Talk or check out my broadband availability website for more broadband packages.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Win 1000 pounds in BT Broadband prize draw

The BT Total Broadband £1000 daily prize draw is back, now running until 12 June.

Sign up to BT Total Broadband online before 12 June 2007 and you'll go into a daily draw to win £1000. They have got £1000 to give away every day between 2 May and 12 June.

BT broadband packages start at only £8.95 a month for the first six months with BT Total Broadband Option 1 (then £17.99 per month, 18 month contract).

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

BT broadband extras

Join BT Total Broadband and you'll receive a range of really useful extras.

Heard of the BT Home Hub? It supports BT’s full range of services and connects wirelessly to PCs and other broadband devices. The RRP for the BT Home Hub is £89.99, but sign up for BT Option 2 or Option 3 and the BT Home Hub is FREE.

With Option 3 you'll also receive a FREE hub handset worth £79.99, perfect with the Wireless Home Hub and makes calling while you’re online even simpler and smarter.

And with Option 1, Option 2, and Option 3 you'll also receive:

• FREE evening and weekend UK BT Broadband Talk calls (free local or national calls up to an hour between 1800 and 0600 evenings and weekends. Excludes calls to the internet, non-geographic numbers eg 0845, or 0870), premium rate, mobiles and Channel Islands)
• 250 free BT Openzone WiFi minutes a month for duration of minimum term – use them in Hotspots in cafés, hotels, train stations, pubs and airports in the UK and abroad.

Compare all three broadband packages, find out more and sign up here.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

UK Online offers business broadband

Looking for fast, low cost, straightforward broadband for your business?

UK Online are now offering business broadband with up to 8 meg download speeds, and unlimited downloads.

UK Online has its own network and can also provide business broadband outside of its network, via a BT phone line. UK Online Business Broadband is only £19.99 + VAT a month if you are within their network, or £29.99 + VAT if you are outside their network. Either way, they are good prices for up to 8 meg business broadband. Cllick here to find out if your business is based within their network area.

Also included:

• 20:1 contention (on their network)
  
• Static IP/Ports 80/20 Free
  
• UK based 24x7 0800 Support
  
• 12 months McAfee Internet Security Suite / protection / anti-virus, firewall
  
• Service level agreement
  
• Optimal netgear router
  
• Domain name included or migrate yours in for free
  
• Officemail with 20 email addresses linked to your domain with webmail
  
• Online business centre
  
• Service status page
  
• VAT receipts on request
  
• Wireless router only £49.99

Click here to visit the UK Online website and find out more about their new business broadband packages.

Or check out my broadband availability website including the business broadband section.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder