Broadband Internet UK Blog

You can now get a free Elenox Webbook (a mini laptop) worth £250 when you order Orange Mobile Broadband online at the Carphone Warehouse.

The Elenox Webbook is the perfect mini laptop for those who lead a busy life and with Orange Mobile Broadband it enables you to surf the Internet and access your email when you’re on the move.



The free Elenox Webbook has an 80Gb hard drive and 512MB of RAM. It comes pre-installed with Windows XP & Windows Media Player and has a 10.2 wide screen.

The Orange mobile broadband package provides speeds up to 1.8Mb with a 3Gb monthly download usage allowance.

This exclusive Orange mobile broadband and free laptop package costs just £25 a month and can only be ordered online at the Carphone Warehouse.

Please read our Mobile Broadband With Free Laptop guide to compare this deal with the other mobile broadband deals currently available.

It’s here! The new BT Home Hub 2.0 wireless router from BT Broadband is now available when you order any BT Total Broadband package.

The stylish black BT Home Hub offers up to twice the wireless range of any other UK broadband provider, giving you a better wireless broadband connection time and time again.



The new BT Home Hub is a next generation wireless router with ‘N’ technology. It’s easy to connect to multiple devices such as PCs, laptops and gaming consoles without the need for wires.

The built-in firewall helps keep you safe from viruses and unwanted intruders and the BT Home Hub even updates itself automatically with new features, including those all-important security updates.

Phone calls over the Internet can be made by plugging in your existing touchtone home phone, while the Home Hub also allows you to get BT Vision.

Please visit our BT Broadband review for information on the range of BT Broadband packages available with the new BT Home Hub. Prices start from £7.95 a month for up to 8Mb broadband download speeds.

You can now get free Setanta Sports when you order BT Broadband together with the BT Vision Value Pack.

BT Vision is BT’s exciting new digital TV service and its Value Pack includes a free digital TV Freeview recorder worth £199, unlimited viewing of all programmes in BT Vision’s TV, TV Replay, Music and Kids’ packs, plus free Setanta Sports 1.



With free Setanta Sports 1 you’ll be able to watch 46 live Barclays Premier League football matches this season plus 60 Clydesdale Bank Premier League games. There’s live coverage of every round of the FA Cup, crucial home nations World Cup qualifiers and the Community Shield.

There’s also a great range of other sports to watch like boxing and the US golf tour.

Please visit our BT Broadband review for more information.

TalkTalk have unveiled a competition with the fabulous new film WALL.E where 1 lucky person can win a trip for a family of 4 to visit Pixar Animation studios where the new movie “WALL.E” was produced.



The trip includes return flights from London to San Francisco, transfers, hotel accommodation for 5 days, excursions to Pixar Animation Studios (the home of WALL.E), the Metrreon exhibition and the Exploratorium. There’s also travel insurance and $100 spending money!

There’s also 50 WALL.E gift packs up for grabs that contain a poster, Pixar DVD boxset, a dancing WALL.E and a WALL.E PS3 computer game.

To enter the competition, simply sign up to a TalkTalk Broadband package by the 31st July.

Please read our Talk Talk Broadband review for more information.

T-Mobile has unveiled a range of improvements to its mobile broadband network that offers customers a faster mobile broadband experience with improved upload network performance and cheaper price plans from £10 per month.



Faster Mobile Broadband Experience
T-Mobile is in the process of upgrading its 3G network to offer mobile broadband speeds of up to 7.2Mbps, initially within the M25 but rolling out to other major cities during the second half of 2008.

Improved Upload Network Performance
T-Mobile has switched on the UK’s first nationwide fast upload network, ‘HSUPA’ - the mobile broadband upload service that lets users upload and share photos and videos to websites like Facebook at speeds of up to 1.4Mbps.

Cheaper Price Plans With Mobile Broadband Now £10 p/m
New customers signing up online for the T-Mobile Broadband Plus 24-month tariff can take advantage of a £5 discount for the first three months, reducing the monthly charge to just £10.

Access to more than 1,000 WiFi HotSpots in key social and business locations such as Starbucks, airports and selected train services is also included in the £10 per month tariff.

Please read our T-Mobile Broadband review for further information.

It’s the Mother Of All Broadband, fast, future proof & fibre optic and it’s only available now from Virgin Media for just £4.50 a month.

Virgin Media fibre optic broadband was designed for the Internet whilst the other type of broadband available in the market was designed for phone calls only and uses copper wire that was invented back in the 1870s.



With copper wire broadband struggling to cope with the growth and demand of the web, it makes sense to switch now to Virgin fibre optic broadband.

There’s a range of fibre optic broadband packages on offer from Virgin Media with prices starting from £4.50 a month when taken with a Virgin phone service or £9 a month where no Virgin phone line rental is required.

If you order online you’ll also get up to £30 cash back that will be added as a credit to your first bill.

Visit our Virgin Media Mother Of All Broadband review for further information.

Mobile operator 3 has launched a range of new 3 Mobile Broadband & USB dongle packages.

There’s three core mobile broadband packages to choose from which are named 3 Mobile Broadband Lite, 3 Mobile Broadband Plus and 3 Mobile Broadband Max.



Each core package can be brought on a 12, 18 or 24 month contract with prices starting from £10 a month for up to 2.8Mb download speeds.

If you order a 3 mobile broadband package online you’ll also get the 3 USB stick dongle for free. You’ll need the 3 dongle to plug into your laptop to connect to the 3 mobile broadband network.

Read our 3 Mobile Broadband review for further information on all the packages available.

You can now get a £15 credit added to your Sky digital account if you order Sky TV or any Sky Broadband, TV and phone combination online by the 31st July 2008.



The £15 credit will be made to your Sky digital account within 60 days of your Sky TV viewing card being enabled.

You’ll receive the credit for any Sky combination you order online at Sky.com including broadband, phone and TV. Existing Sky customers can also receive the £15 credit if they upgrade their existing Sky box online by the 31st July 2008.

Visit our Sky Broadband review page for detailed information on the range of Sky packages currently on offer.

With the credit crunch making many of us worry about our money, it makes sense to consider switching your broadband to one of TalkTalk’s free broadband packages.

In particular, TalkTalk’s half price Talk Global Call Plan costs from just £3.25 a month and includes unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to local and national UK landlines, calls to 36 international destinations worldwide AND free broadband.



This half price offer ends on the 30th June 2008 so if you want to stay ahead of the credit crunch, you’d better act quickly!

Simply phone TalkTalk on 0800 049 7865 or read our Talk Talk Broadband review for more information.

AOL have four new AOL Broadband and phone bundles now available for summer 2008.

With one of the bundles you can get up to 8Mb wireless AOL Broadband plus evening and weekend landline phone calls for just £4.99 per month for the first 3 months, followed by £9.99 a month thereafter. You’ll also receive a free wireless router worth £50.



You can choose an AOL broadband and phone bundle with a Talk Evening & Weekends phone call plan or a Talk Unlimited plan either on an 18 month contract or with no minimum term contract - The choice is yours.

Please read our AOL Broadband And Phone review for more information on these new bundles and also the full range of AOL Broadband packages.