Broadband News & Mobile Broadband News

Virgin Media (virginmedia.com) has launched a free installation offer worth £40 across many of its broadband only and broadband and phone deals.

New customers switching to Virgin Media Broadband can qualify for the free installation offer by ordering any of Virgin Media’s 10Mb, 20Mb or 50Mb broadband packages which come with a Virgin phone line and unlimited weekend calls to UK landlines.

Prices start from £5 a month for Virgin Media’s 10Mb broadband service and weekend calls, while the 50Mb package, costing from £15 a month, also includes free activation, worth an extra £20. Virgin Media telephone line rental is £11.99 a month.

New customers not wanting a Virgin phone line can opt for a broadband only package and pay from £15 a month for up to 10Mb speeds, £25 a month for up to 20Mb speeds and £33 a month for up to 50Mb speeds.

All Virgin Media broadband plans have an unlimited download usage allowance (a fair use policy applies), free PC Guard security and a free ‘N’ wireless router.

Virgin Media’s fibre optic broadband network covers 55% of UK homes. Its download speeds were found to be twice as fast as its competitors in a recent OFCOM broadband speed test study.

Interested readers can find out more at the virginmedia.com website.

T-Mobile UK (t-mobile.co.uk/broadband) has reduced the price of its pay as you go mobile broadband dongle to just a one-off £8.99.

New customers ordering the T-Mobile PAYG dongle online with a £10 top up can also get 30 days free mobile broadband access when they buy their first day’s usage for £2.

A fair usage policy of 2GB applies for the 30 days, with no additional charges or run on rates applying for going over the 2GB cap, although T-Mobile may restrict a customer’s use.

When the 30 days end, customers can simply top up again and pay for the days they need – either £2 per day for 0.5GB of data usage, £7 per week for 1GB or £15 for a month for 2GB.

T-Mobile Broadband provides download speeds up to 4.5Mbps and was recently voted ‘Best Mobile Broadband’ by What Mobile.

Interested readers can find out more at the t-mobile.co.uk website.

BT (www.BT.com/summerdeals) has confirmed that one of its popular BT Summer Deals, offering 3 months free broadband and phone calls, is set to continue until the end of September.

The offer which generates savings of up to £89.97 on the standard bundle price, provides up to 20Mbps BT Total Broadband speeds together with unlimited anytime phone calls to UK landlines free for 3 months, followed by just £15.99 per month thereafter.

The BT Total Broadband Option 1 package provided features a 10GB monthly download allowance, unlimited W-Fi minutes at over a million hotspots across the country and a free BT Home Hub wireless router worth £89.99.

Around the clock Freephone broadband help from a UK landline is also included.

BT’s Unlimited Anytime Calling Plan also offers anytime phone calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers and free customer support.

There’s also no connection fee charged for new customers requiring a new BT phone line to be installed or re-connected in order to take advantage of this offer – which means a further saving of £127.99.

BT Summer Deals are available to order online only, so interested readers are advised to visit the www.BT.com/summerdeals website for further information and to order online.

BT (BT.com/infinity) has reduced the price of its BT Infinity Broadband and phone calls package to just £7.49 a month.

Previously £19.49 a month, new customers can now get the BT Infinity Broadband and calls package for £7.49 a month for the first 3 months, followed by £17.99 a month thereafter.

The package includes broadband speeds up to 40Mbps, a 40GB download allowance, free BT Infinity Home Hub, free engineer installation and unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines.

BT Infinity is BT’s next generation fibre optic broadband network which provides super-fast download speeds up to 40Mbps, together with upload speeds up to 10Mbps.

BT is rolling out its new fibre optic broadband network across the UK, with four million UK homes expected to have access to BT Infinity enabled telephone exchanges by December 2010.

Interested readers can check when BT Infinity Broadband will be available in their area by visiting the BT.com/infinity website and choosing the region where they live.

BT (BT.com) has launched a free connection charge offer for new customers switching to BT who need a new BT phone line installed or re-connected.

The new offer means new customers can save themselves the one-off BT line connection charge of £127.99.

In order to qualify, new customers must order online a BT Broadband and Phone calls package, the cheapest of which is currently £6.99 a month for the first 3 months, followed by £13.99 per month after.

This package provides up to 20Mbps broadband download speeds plus unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines and 0845/0870 numbers.

A free BT wireless router (known as the BT Home Hub), worth £89.99, is also included in this package.

New customers requiring a new BT phone line and a phone calls package, but with no broadband, will need to pay a one-off £29.99 connection charge, which will be added to their first bill.

Readers can find out more at the BT.com website.