June 2012 news

There are 19 articles written in June 2012

Sky’s frozen prices melt and increase

posted on 29 June 2012

Sky customers should be advised that the provider is going through changes. Some of you might recall that Sky froze its prices last year while other providers announced increases. In order to keep providing the best it can, Sky said that the time has come it rethought its pricing. Sky said in its pricing update: "Last year we ... [read more]

Goodbye Openzone, hello BT Wi-Fi

posted on 28 June 2012

BT has announced that it decided to rename its wireless broadband side of the business from BTOpenzone to a slightly easier to remember title - BT Wi-Fi. In addition, those who use the BT Fon service will notice that the product has merged with Openzone and will also be marketed under the aforementioned new name. BT Fon, or shall w... [read more]

ASA bans Virgin Media online speed doubling ad

posted on 27 June 2012

Sky Broadband complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) saying that Virgin Media was misleading consumers with its online ads with sport star Usain Bolt. The campaign promised that all of Virgin Media customers' broadband speeds would be boosted. ASA has upheld the complaint because not "all" customers saw their speeds d... [read more]

Blocked pages may show a new error code 451

posted on 26 June 2012

An interesting proposal is under consideration at the moment. As pages such as Newzbin and The Pirate Bay have been blocked by all major UK providers, the time has come for the industry to consider what the websites are going to display when a user lands on the homepage of these blocked URLs. A message, also known as HTTP Error Code 45... [read more]

Google launches IPTV service in the UK

posted on 25 June 2012

Google has announced the launch of its latest product in the UK - Google TV, an IPTV service. As a quick reminder, the company wanted to launch the service in early 2012, however there was rain on Google's parade in the form of complaints from the US market due to the insufficient video content available and what some thought was not... [read more]

Further delays for YouView

posted on 25 June 2012

According to recent reports, the much anticipated YouView service (broadband-based television) is going to suffer further delays and is now likely to surface only in the third quarter of this year - late July or early August. The good news is that the product is going to be available on its own and as a part of a bundle. It was Mark... [read more]

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