AOL extends broadband wireless offer

AOL has extended the end date for its AOL Broadband Wireless offer until 13/01/08.

Just to recap - this wireless broadband offer comes with:

• up to 8Mb download speeds
• 10GB monthly download allowance
• free wireless router
• Talk Evenings and Weekends at no extra cost
• free connection
• first month free, then five months at £9.99 per month, then back to the standard price of £14.99 per month

Go wireless and sign up for this cheap broadband offer from AOL.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Save £30 set-up fee on Sky Multiroom

Take advantage of this great new offer on Sky Multiroom - and put an end to family arguments over what to watch!

With Sky Multiroom, you pay an extra subscription of £10 per month for each additional standard Sky box. So you can watch different Sky TV programmes, films, or Sky Sports events in different rooms, at the same time.

Usually there is a £30 set-up cost for any combination of Sky products. But if you sign up to Sky Multiroom before 17/12/07, you won't pay the set-up fee - saving you £30!

Find out more about Sky products here:

• More about Sky Multiroom - you can upgrade online if you are already a Sky TV customer
• More about Sky TV

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Free TV with Virgin Media phone line

Sign up for any Virgin Media phone package (starting at £11 per month for size M) and get FREE Virgin Media Medium TV.

Virgin Media Medium TV comes with over 35 digital TV channels including Virgin 1, Virgin Central, ITV2, E4, Film4, UKTV History and Cbeebies.

You can also access Virgin TV on demand:

• Over 500 films to choose from (£1.50 to £3.75)
• 1000 music videos, including concerts (from 20p each)
• Popular drama series, kids programmes, comedies and documentaries. (£5 a month)
• Virgin Media's pick of last week's TV, for free

And you can add on V+ for £5 a month, and a one-off installation cost of £150. With V+ you can pause and rewind live TV, and record two programmes while watching a third.

Why not get started - browse and sign up for Virgin Media Medium TV and Virgin Media phone packages.

To find out if you can get Virgin Media's cable services, go to www.ukbroadbandfinder.com and put your postcode into the free broadband checker.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Virgin Media TV, phone, Sky Sports and free Setanta

Join Virgin Media and enjoy Sky Sports and a phone with unlimited UK weekend calls and line rental included, plus FREE Setanta Sports, for only £47 a month. That's £148.88 per year cheaper than Sky.

The phone package is Virgin Media Medium. The TV package is XL - you'll be able to watch every Barclays Premier League game that's live on TV, and includes Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, and Xtra.

Don't forget the £10 credit for every cable product you sign up to online. (There's also a one-off installation fee of £25).

Find out more or sign up for this Virgin Media sports TV and phone offer now.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

BT Vision free with BT broadband

Sign up for a BT Total Broadband package and you can enjoy BT Vision - free. BT Vision is on-demand digital TV.

The BT Vision Digital TV recorder lets you pause, record and rewind TV:

• Watch films from the BT vision library from £1.99

• Watch 70 digital TV and radio channels with Freeview as standard

• See up to 242 Barclay Premier League games from 99p per view, OR go for unlimited access to Setanta Sports from £9.99 a month

• Choose from a range of viewing packages, so you choose the kind of TV films and sport you want to watch, from £6/month

• Record up to 80 hours of programmes with a V-Box. Customers signing up to BT Total Broadband get a V Box at no extra cost (otherwise £199)

You'll need a BT HomeHub to power BT Vision - this is FREE with BT Total Broadband Option 2 or Option 3, or £30 with BT Total Broadband Option 1. There is also a £30 BT Vision connection charge.

Once your BT Total Broadband has been activated, you can then sign up online for BT Vision.

Sign up to BT Total Broadband now.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

New - 02 Broadband packages

02, the mobile operator, has announced its new broadband packages - they've got superfast speeds, and super prices if you're an existing 02 pay-monthly mobile customer.

Plus there's free connection until 31/01/08, and unlimited downloads (subject to fair use policy).

02 Broadband packages:

• 02 Standard: up to 8 meg - from £7.50 for O2 pay monthly customers, or standard price of £17.50 per month.
• 02 Premium: up to 16 meg - from £10.00 for O2 pay monthly customers, or standard price of £20.00 per month.
  
• 02 Ultimate: up to 20 meg - from £15.00 for O2 pay monthly customers, or standard price of £25.00 per month.

Extras include:

• up to 10 email addresses - so you can give some to your friends or family!
• if you're an O2 mobile customer you can get up to 1000 emails directly on your handset each month, free - and they'll appear on your screen like a text message
• 1GB of storage for the main account and 200MB for all the others

Visit the 02 Broadband website now and view package details.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Virgin Media £10 cable credit

Sign up online for a Virgin Media cable broadband and get a £10 credit on your first month's bill. You can get this credit for cable broadband, cable phone, and cable TV packages - so if you buy a Virgin Media 3 for £30 bundle with these products in it you can save £30!

Check out:

• Virgin Media cable broadband
• Virgin Media phone packages
• Virgin Media cable TV

Remember - sign up online for a single Virgin Media cable product or a bundle, and receive a £10 credit for each cable product (up to a total of £30 credit).

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Slow broadband - new article

Yesterday I added a new blog article to my broadband comparison website about broadband speeds.

People are becoming increasingly frustrated by actual broadband speeds not matching the advertised broadband speeds for their package.

My article looks at what can cause slow broadband, how this issue has been tackled in the news recently, and what we at UK Broadband Finder are doing on our site to make it clearer to users what speeds they might get, and why speeds might be lower than they expect.

Read About Broadband Speeds now, or take our free speed test and find out how fast your broadband really is.


By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

UK Online new broadband packages

UK Online has revamped and relaunched its broadband packages. There are now three broadband deals - Lite, Pro and Premier. All are suitable for home or business usage.

UK Online Lite: up to 2Mb downloads, up to 256kb upload speed, free McAfee Internet Security Suite for 12 months (worth £49.99) - FROM £14.99 PER MONTH

UK Online Pro: up to 8Mb download speeds, up to 768K upload speed, Free McAfee Internet Security Suite for 12 months (worth £49.99) - FROM £19.99 PER MONTH

UK Online Premier: up to 16Mb download speed, up to 1Mb upload speed, free McAfee Internet Security Suite for 12 months (worth £49.99), up to 20 free UK Online email addresses with 200MB of storage each - FROM £24.99 PER MONTH

Check out these broadband packages now at UK Online.

All prices include VAT. All packages have unlimited downloads (fair use policy applies). Lite has a £25 connection fee, Pro has no connection fee until 31/10/07 (then £25), Premier has no connection fee at any time.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Green broadband

Both Eclipse Internet and BSkyB have announced they are carbon neutral - Eclipse this year, and BSkyB in 2006.

If it's important to you that your broadband provider is taking climate change and carbon emissions seriously, then check out my blog post on www.ukbroadbandfinder.com which goes into more detail about what BSkyB and Eclipse have done to reduce emissions and offset emissions that they can't eliminate entirely.

View Eclipse Internet's residential and business broadband deals, and Sky's packages (or create your own Sky bundle).

Telecoms provider BT is also committing itself to carbon emissions reductions. And it is working on influencing and engaging with customers, suppliers and employees to produce lower-carbon solutions and reduce personal and business carbon emissions.

View BT's home broadband and business broadband packages.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Vote in our broadband speeds poll

I've added a new poll to www.ukbroadbandfinder.com. Take our free speed test and then let us know how fast your broadband download speed is - compared to what the advertised download speed on your broadband package is.

Actual broadband speeds can be reduced by several factors, particularly distance from the exchange. They can also vary according to time of day which means it is useful to take several speed tests, over time. So start checking your broadband speed now and then vote in our poll.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Be Broadband superfast broadband price cuts

Looking for superfast broadband? Be Broadband, the broadband provider offering broadband download speeds of up to 24Mb, has cut the prices of its fastest broadband deals!

Be Unlimited - now only £18 a month (was £24 a month). Download speed up to 24 meg, upload speed up to 1.3 meg. Order Be Unlimited broadband

Be Pro, for offices - £22 per month (was £40 a month). Download speed up to 24 meg, upload speed of up to 2.5 meg with Upload Plus. Order Be Pro Broadband now

If you're looking for other superfast broadband packages, then visit my superfast broadband page on www.ukbroadbandfinder.com.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Demon Business Broadband 8000 price cut

Demon has cut the price of its Business Broadband 8000 package by nearly one-third - from £59/month (+VAT) to only £40/month (+VAT).

The package includes up to 8 meg downloads speeds, unlimited downloads, prioritised business traffic, a free wireless router, webspace, up to 832kb upload speed, and more.

Demon Business Broadband 8000 is suitable for up to 20 users so it's idea for a growing business or SME.

If you have a smaller business, or you work at home, check out Demon's other broadband deals as they recently cut the prices of HomeOffice 8000 and Home 8000. You can find out more about all Demon's broadband packages on its new microsite.

Or check out business broadband packages available in your area on my broadband comparison website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

BT Tradespace new features

Join BT Tradespace for free, trade online, and enjoy some fab new benefits!

What is BT Tradespace?
An online community that brings small businesses and sellers together with consumers or businesses.

On the free version (BT Tradespace Basic) you can blog, promote particular products and services, upload podcasts, and more.

There is also a pay-for version (BT Tradespace Contact) which costs £15/month +VAT (less if you take out a 6-month or annual subscription) and in addition to the benefits of the fee Tradeapace, you can also allow customers in the UK and aborad call you for free, send your business cards via SMS or email, join and promote your business to BT communities.

NEW benefits

• BT e-Signature free trial - sign contracts and documents quickly and easily with legally binding electronic signatures - helping you to BEAT THE POSTAL STRIKE!!
• BT Workspace Lite - secure online storage space for documents and files, share with customers and colleagues.
• 10 free business email addresses
• BT Business Builder Lite - this is FREE software to help with payroll and bookkeeping, plus regularly updated business info on legal, health and safety, HR and admin

Visit BT Tradespace now and start making the most of your business online - trading and networking.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Virgin Media extends cheap broadband offer

Great news if you're looking for an amazingly cheap cable broadband deal - Virgin Media have extended their £4.50 broadband offer until 31 October.

Sign up for the Virgin Media Size M phone plan and you can get up to 2 meg cable broadband for only £4.50 a month, for 12 months.

Virgin Media Size M phone plan costs £11 a month and includes free weekend UK landline calls (other terms apply).

Find out more now about Virgin Media £4.50/month cable broadband.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Cheap broadband and phone from Tiscali

Tiscali have just launched an amazing broadband and phone bundle deal - for only £6.49 a month for the first three months!

Sign up for up to 2Mb broadband and FREE weekend calls and pay only £6.49 a month (rising to £12.99 a month after three months).

You'll also get:

• unlimited downloads (subject to fair use policy)
• free weekend calls to UK landline numbers starting 01 or 02
• free weekend calls to Tiscali's top 10 international call destinations - USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands.
• 12 month contract
• ... and more

Find out more on the Tiscali website, or view all Tiscali packages on my broadband website.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

TalkTalk free Setanta Sports offer

Want to try Setanta Sports? Then sign up for Talk2 International or Talk3 International and you can try Setanta Sports free for two months - and you'll get a free Freeview box.

(There is no annual contract for Setanta Sports - so monthly payments in advance of £9.99 will start from the date two months after your date of subscription. Other Terms and Conditions apply.)

Both bundles have free broadband up to 8Mb and 40GB monthly download allowance.

Other TalkTalk benefits:

• Earn 2 Nectar points per £1 spent on your TalkTalk bill
• £1000 challenge - if they can't prove that your bill with TalkTalk is cheaper than it would have been with BT, they'll give you £1,000
• TalkTalk Calling Circle gives you additional discounts on up to 16 numbers, including international numbers and mobiles. And for even more savings you can nominate one of these as your Prime Number - you'll then enjoy a further 10% discount
• Free unlimited number of calls to other TalkTalk customers

Or visit www.ukbroadbandfinder.com for broadband deals in your area.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder

Sky 10 pound credit for online ordering

Sky Digital has upped its online credit - now if you sign up for one of their broadband, Sky TV and phone packages online you will get a £10 credit.

Check out Sky Digital's most popular packages, starting at only £16 per month:

• Sky See, Surf, Speak for £16 per month - includes Variety entertainment mix
  
• Sky See, Surf, Speak for £26 per month - includes 6 entertainment mixes
  
• Sky See, Speak, Surf for £35 a month - includes 2 mixes plus Sky Sports
• Sky See, Speak, Surf for £50 a month - includes 6 mixes plus Sky Sports and Sky Movies

Go for the FREE standard Sky box, or Sky Plus (which incurs higher initial one-off cost) or Sky HD (which incurs higher one-off cost and higher monthly cost).

Or you can create your own Sky bundle combination

Or find more broadband packages in your area at www.ukbroadbandfinder.com.

By Sarah at UK Broadband Finder