Broadband News & Mobile Broadband News

BE Broadband (bethere.co.uk) has announced that it is to end its £7.50 per month offer for its BE Value Broadband package.

New customers considering switching to BE Broadband have until midnight on the 27th April to take advantage of the offer before the price returns to £13.79 a month.

At £7.50 a month, BE Value Broadband offers download speeds up to 8Mbps coupled with a 40GB monthly download usage allowance. Upload speeds up to 1.3Mbps are included together with a free wireless router.

The BE Value Broadband package is best suited for users who want a fast and reliable broadband service with plenty of download usage allowance, but who do not wish to pay a high monthly fee.

As well as the price returning to £13.79 a month on the 28th April, the 40GB usage cap will be removed making BE Value Broadband an unlimited download usage package which will be subject to a fair usage policy.

Readers can find out further information on BE Value Broadband at the bethere.co.uk website or our BE Broadband review.

BE Broadband (bethere.co.uk) has announced that it is to supply a free Wi-Fi broadband service to 46 UK communities in conjunction with Freerunner.

Freerunner is a free public W-Fi broadband service for remote or underserved communities in the UK that urgently need access to the Internet.

The 46 communities, selected following a Freerunner competition in September, will be given 3 years free Wi-Fi broadband access.

Commenting on the announcement, the Head of Operations at BE Broadband, Tom Williams, said, “We’re proud to be part of the Freerunner mission and agree that WiFi should be more widely available. Freerunner’s attitude reminds me of what BE did for broadband when we created the first UK ADSL 2+ network”.

Williams continued, “Our members are more likely to hang out in independent shops and cafes, so we’re proud to hook up Freerunner communities with fast and unlimited broadband”.

The CEO of Freerunner, Owen Geddes, said, “We are very excited to have BE on board as our first corporate partner. BE will be providing a broadband connection to those that don’t have any connection at all, completely free of charge as part of this project.”

Geddes added, “It is incredible to think that a small piece of relatively low cost technology is going to fundamentally change nearly 50 communities across the UK”.

BE Broadband was the first UK broadband supplier to deliver download speeds up to 24Mbps and upload speeds up to 2.5Mbps.

Their Value package, providing broadband speeds up to 8Mbps with an unlimited download allowance is currently half price at £6.75 a month until the 28th December.

Further information on BE’s packages can be found at the the bethere.co.uk website.

Popular broadband supplier BE (bethere.co.uk) has launched a half price broadband voucher code for its BE Value package.

Previously £13.50 a month, customers switching to BE can now get BE Value Broadband for just £6.75 a month for the duration of the 12 month contract.

BE Value provides broadband speeds up to 8Mbps with an unlimited download usage allowance.

To qualify for the half price offer, switching customers must remember to enter the voucher code ‘halfprice’ when they order BE Value online at the bethere.co.uk website.

BE’s range of broadband packages can also be compared at our BE Broadband review.

BE (bethere.co.uk) has added a free £25 Amazon.co.uk gift voucher to its student broadband packages.

To receive the voucher, students must order online (by the 18th October) either BE Unlimited Broadband or BE Pro Broadband, both of which are available on student friendly 9 month contracts.

Student must also remember to enter the voucher code ‘AMAZON’ on the BE website to ensure they qualify.

Both BE Pro and BE Unlimited offer broadband speeds up to 24Mbps using ADSL 2+ technology. Prices start from £17.50 a month with a free wireless router included.

Readers can find out more at the bethere.co.uk website or our BE Broadband review.

UK broadband supplier BE (bethere.co.uk) has set up a Twitter profile to help keep its customers informed of any problems or outages with the BE Broadband network.

The feed will be used to update BE broadband users daily on upcoming planned network outages at their exchange, so that they won’t be surprised at any changes to their service.

The Twitter profile (available at http://twitter.com/BEStatus) will also be able to alert members to any short notice or unplanned outages. A sample message from the profile could read “Planned outages on BROMSGROVE, DROITWICH on 17th between 3am-6am.”

Commenting on the new service, the Head of Marketing at BE Broadband, Oli White, said, “We’re constantly looking for innovative new ways of communicating with our members using tools that are currently available. Twitter is perfect for sending out short messages to people that want to subscribe to them, so it was a natural fit for us to offer this service to customers”.

White continued, “Hopefully it should add to the numerous other channels we use to communicate with our members and should help to prevent any surprise from outages”.

BE Broadband has recently received a ‘Recommended’ accolade in the PC Advisor Awards for broadband customer service. The ISP was also nominated for ‘Best Consumer Customer Service’ at the 2009 ISPA Awards.

Readers interested in switching their broadband to BE can find out more at the bethere.co.uk website or our Be Broadband review.