Broadband News & Mobile Broadband News

BT (www.BT.com/deals) has unveiled a 12 months free unlimited UK calls offer for new customers who order BT Broadband for £13 a month.

New customers ordering this Broadband and Anytime Calls package online will also qualify for a free £25 Sainsbury’s gift card voucher that will be sent out by BT once the customer’s broadband has been activated (full details on claiming the voucher can be found on www.BT.com/claimvoucher).

The 12 months free unlimited UK calls applies to anytime phone calls to UK landlines and 0845/0870 numbers. Calls can be made for up to an hour after which charges apply – however, customers can hang up and redial before the end of the hour to avoid charges.



The broadband part of the package provides download speeds up to 16Mbps together with a 10GB monthly usage limit, which is plenty for most broadband users.

The BT Home Hub wireless router is included together with basic PC security and online storage. There’s also free unlimited Wi-Fi minutes available at over 3.5 million BT Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK.

BT line rental is required with this package and costs from an equivalent of £10.75 a month when paid upfront, or £14.60 a month when paid monthly by direct debit.

New customers needing a new phone line to be installed or re-connected in order to take the 12 months free calls offer can currently take advantage of BT’s free connection incentive which provides savings of around £128.

In a seperate move, BT has also launched a 6 months free Broadband plus unlimited evening & weekend phone calls deal, that normally costs £13 a month.

Interested readers can find out more on this and BT’s 12 months free unlimited UK calls offer at the www.BT.com/deals website.

BT (www.BT.com/infinityupgrade) has doubled its BT Infinity speed for its BT Infinity 2 package from 38Mbps to up to 76Mbps for no extra cost.

From April 12th, new or existing BT Infinity customers ordering BT Infinity 2 Broadband will automatically benefit from broadband speeds eight times faster than the UK average, together with the UK’s fastest upload speeds of up to 19Mbps.

Prices for BT Infinity 2 Broadband start from £20 a month for the first 3 months (£26 per month thereafter) and include an unlimited download usage allowance, a free BT Infinity Home Hub, plus unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines.

BT Infinity 1 Broadband, which costs from £9 a month for up to 38Mbps download speeds, has also been revamped with upload speeds increasing fivefold to up to 9.5Mbps.

Commenting on the speed increase, BT Consumer’s Managing Director, John Petter, said: “Super-fast broadband is helping people enjoy the internet far more than ever before. However, many providers have forgotten about the importance of fast upload speeds. BT believes that fast upstream speeds are vital given how people now use the internet and so we are distancing ourselves from the competition by providing the UK’s fastest upload speed”.

BT Infinity is currently available to 7 million homes and businesses across the UK. This is set to rise to 10 million in 2012 and then to around two thirds of all UK premises by the end of 2014.

Readers can check whether their home or business can get BT Infinity Broadband by visiting the www.BT.com/infinity website and entering their phone number or postcode. Orders placed online for BT Infinity also qualify for a free £25 Sainsbury’s voucher.

BT (www.BT.com/freecalls) has launched a free calls for a year incentive, together with a £25 Sainsbury’s gift card, to new customers who buy BT Broadband for £13 a month.

Available to order online only at the www.BT.com website, the incentive also features a shorter 12 month contract period as opposed to the standard 18 month contract for BT Broadband and Call packages.

The free calls for a year apply to anytime calls to UK landlines and 0845/0870 numbers, while the broadband package delivers broadband speeds up to 16Mbps, together with a 10GB monthly usage allowance.

The BT Home Hub and Wi-Fi minutes are also included for free, as are a raft of other features like online storage, PC security and a 24 hour helpline.

BT Vision, BT’s digital TV service, can also be added to a customer’s online order for an additional £4 a month, while BT phone line rental, costing from £10.75 a month, is required.

New customers ordering the broadband and free calls for a year offer online can claim their £25 Sainsbury’s gift card by entering their details on the www.BT.com/claimvoucher website once their broadband has been installed. The Gift Card will be sent once their broadband has been activated.

Readers can find out more at the www.BT.com/freecalls website.

BT (www.bt.com) has launched an exclusive broadband and calls offer for £3.50 a month that includes a £50 Sainsbury’s voucher.

New customers taking up the offer can enjoy BT Total Broadband speeds up to 20Mbps together with unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines for just £3.50 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £13 per month thereafter.

BT phone line rental is required and costs from just £10 a month using BT’s Landline Saver deal.

The £3.50 package includes a free BT Home Hub wireless router, a 10GB monthly download usage allowance, free around the clock technical support, plus unlimited Wifi access at over 3.5 million Wifi hotspots across the UK.

Customers can claim their £50 Sainsbury’s voucher once their BT Broadband has been installed. The voucher will then be posted out to the customer once their claim has been validated.

Readers interested in BT’s £3.50 broadband and calls deal must place their order online at BT’s specific www.bt.com/£3.50 offer page in order to qualify as the deal is not available or published anywhere else on the BT website. The £50 Sainsbury’s voucher offer ends on the 15th March 2012, while the £3.50 broadband and calls offer ends on the 29th March 2012.

BT (www.BT.com/freewifi) has revealed that the number of free BT Wifi hotspots in the UK and Ireland has passed the 3.5 million mark.

The WiFi hotspots, available to use free of charge by all 6 million BT Broadband home and business customers, include around 380,000 in London and 25,000 in Leeds and Birmingham.

There’s also around 20,000 BT Wifi hotspots in Manchester, Sheffield and Edinburgh, while Liverpool, Brighton, Bristol and Cardiff have more than 11,000 each.

BT’s Wifi hotspots can be found in numerous locations across the UK, including well known brands like Thistle hotels and Starbucks, together with airport lounges, network rail stations, independent businesses and homes.

Commenting on the announcement, BT’s John Petter, Consumer Managing Director, said: “Millions of BT broadband customers are enjoying free access to the one of the biggest Wi-Fi networks in the world. Our free apps for the Apple, Android and now Blackberry devices make getting online even easier and have already proved a huge hit with over 900,000 downloads.”

BT is currently the only UK broadband supplier to include free, unlimited Wi-Fi minutes, within all their broadband packages.

Readers can find out further information on BT’s free Wifi access and their nearest hotspots at the www.BT.com/freewifi website.