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posted on 28 March 2013US IT firm Cisco has just released a global study which shows the UK lagging its Asian and European neighbours in terms of the quality of our broadband infrastructure. According to the report, the UK was found to "meet the needs for today", but is not among the 25 countries who are "comfortable ... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013At Simplifydigital we receive thousands of calls per week from customers looking to find the best value digital TV, broadband and home phone deals.; Our impartial experts hear first-hand what motivates customers when buying broadband services and indeed what motivates them to leave existing bro... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Lord Carter's much publicized "Digital Britain" Report made a "universal broadband access" commitment, such that all UK homes should be able to receive a basic broadband service with a speed of 2 Mbs by 2012.; The Report also set relatively ambitious goals for the roll-out of fibre optic broadba... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Sky Player, as the name suggests, is Sky's version of the iPlayer, accessible online via sky.com.; It shows free and paid for digital TV content. Sky has announced that Sky Player will be available on Xbox in October. Xbox Live Gold members ;will be able to download the application, but only Sky... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Project Kangaroo was the much publicized project to create a standard platform for catch-up TV and on-demand content online.; It was initiated by the BBC and was a joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide.; If successful, it would have provided content from all those channels in a... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Ofcom's decision to allow BT to sell discounted "bundle" deals, will further stimulate an already very attractive market for consumers. Ofcom has taken the decision to allow BT for the first time, to sell its digital TV, broadband and home phone packages as a combined "bundle deal". Until now BT... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Well over half of Sky homes now have a Sky+ or Sky+HD box which really revolutionises how families watch TV. Both are PVRs (personal video recorders) which allow users to record single programmes (or entire series) at the touch of a button. PVR households can therefore effectively create their... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Here at Simplifydigital we like to do our part to bring awesome exclusive broadband deals to our customers. So we thought we would go one better than free broadband and offer, (for a limited period only!) free broadband plus a £15 cashback with our friends at Orange Home Broadband. We are offe... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013BT Vision is taking a leaf out of the book of "Open Interactive" which launched in 2001 with the aim of bringing internet shopping to you TV screens, without the need for a laptop.; Open provided a "walled garden" of interactive TV content, for Sky customers, accessible by the standard Sky TV re... [read more]
posted on 28 March 201320Mb/s at no extra cost to subscribers BT has pushed the big red "upgrade" button on all its subscribers accounts, pumping up pipes to 20Mb/s in "enabled areas". Those areas cover, according to the company, 40% of the UK's homes and businesses. Up till now, customers were stuck on 8Mb/s speeds,... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013The Carphone Warehouse which owns both TalkTalk and AOL Broadband announced today impressive subscriber growth for TalkTalk in the last quarter, but a shrinking customer base for its AOL Broadband subsidiary.The net addition of 74,000 broadband customers increased the total broadband customer ba... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013According to figures announced at the Broadband World Forum in Paris this week, fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband has grown by 18% in Europe over the last 12 months, but the UK has failed to make the list of top 10 adopters of this new technology. FTTH broadband is the "Rolls Royce" of broadban... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013The TV manufacturers, the electrical retailers and Sky are aligning to make 3DTV the next big thing in television, but consumers struggle to keep up. Consumers are still getting their heads around PVRs and high definition TV, but they should brace themselves for the next big thing in TV - three-... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013A Romsley (Bromsgrove) resident has hit out after his ISP, Orange UK, issued a letter informing him that what he pays for broadband would soon increase by an extra £8.81 per month because of charges from BT for use of the village's exchange. The issue appears to have surfaced because the local e... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Barclays has unveiled its student package for the new academic year introducing an Orange mobile broadband deal into the mix.For the 2009 academic year, everyone who signs up for a student account with the bank will be able to save 25 per cent on the monthly cost of mobile broadband from the int... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013T-Mobile has come out on top in the latest YouGov's Dongle Tracker report, which reviews mobile broadband providers on a number of customer-centric criteria. They took top honours in six of the thirteen categories.The mobile broadband survey was carried out last month among 2,083 mobile broadban... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Tiscali has come very late to the high definition TV (HDTV) party.; Even though their digital set top box is HD ready and is able to receive HD content over IPTV, they have suffered from the fact that broadband speeds are so variable, that some homes do not have a fast enough connection to recei... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Carphone Warehouse has today announced that they have successfully acquired the TV, broadband and home phone provider Tiscali.The deal, worth £236m, will propel Carphone's TalkTalk brand into becoming Britain's largest consumer broadband provider with 4.25 million customers, covering over 25% of... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013Transparency and impartiality are sacred to us here at Simplifydigital, so we're happy to share BT's response to our broadband price versus speed article: "BT customers get the maximum speed their line can support, which differs from customer to customer, so the average cost per Mb is a meaningl... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2013UK broadband consumers currently spend over £2.6 billion per year on broadband subscriptions, but new research shows that 40% are unhappy with the service that they receive.The research shows that prices continue to fall as competition intensifies, with broadband costs about 5% cheaper than 12 m... [read more]