Broadband News & Mobile Broadband News

Virgin Media (www.virginmedia.com/amazon) is giving away a £50 Amazon gift voucher plus a 3 months free offer to new customers who order a Virgin Media bundle online by the 31st March.

The new incentive together with the company’s existing free installation and free TiVo box activation offers mean new customers can generate savings of at least £209 when they switch to a broadband, TV and phone bundle from Virgin Media.

Virgin Media’s broadband, TV and phone bundles start from £20 a month (after the first 3 months free) and for this customers receive unlimited broadband speeds up to 10Mbps, access to 75 digital TV channels including Sky1, SkyLIVING and Discovery via the supplied VHD or TiVo box, plus unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landline and Virgin Mobile numbers.

Catch Up TV is included which enables customers to catch up on the last 7 days’ TV with the BBC iPlayer, 4 On Demand and ITV Net Player.

There’s also a vast choice of films, shows and music videos that are available to watch on demand, while 6 HD channels including the likes of BBC One HD and FilmFour HD can be enjoyed.

New customers opting for Virgin Media’s clever new 500GB TiVo box (at an additional cost of £5 a month) will be able to pause, rewind and record TV, record three programmes & watch a fourth, plus have storage for 250 hours of TV. There’s also other great functionality likes Wishlists and Search & Browse.

Virgin Media is currently rolling out a double broadband speed upgrade programme in phases across the country, which means new customers taking the £20 bundle outlined above should, over the next 12 months, see their broadband speeds double to 20Mbps for free.

Interested readers will need to order a Virgin Media bundle online at the www.virginmedia.com/amazon website by the 31st March in order to qualify for the first 3 months free and a £50 Amazon gift voucher.

Virgin Media’s (www.virginmedia.com/bundles) New Collections are now half price for 6 months for new customers who join online and there’s a further £60 off if orders are placed online by the 24th May.

New customers switching to a Virgin Media Collection can also qualify for free engineer installation worth £49.95, plus free activation on Virgin’s 500GB TiVo set top box – also worth £49.95.

These incentives generate a substantial first year saving of £234.90 on Virgin Media’s Essential Collection of Broadband, Phone and Digital TV which usually costs £25 a month (now £12.50 a month).

The Essential Collection provides unlimited fibre optic broadband speeds up to 30Mbps (typical speed is 30.62Mbps), unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines and Virgin mobiles, the 500GB TiVo box, plus access to 75 digital TV channels and 6 HD channels.

TV on demand, providing instant access to a vast library of entertainment is also included, as is Catch Up TV which provides access to Sky Anytime, the ITV Net Player, BBC iPlayer, 4oD and Demand 5.

Virgin Media’s broadband and phone bundles (without TV) are also available with the first 6 months at half price, which means new customers can enjoy download speeds of up to 100Mbps (typical speed is 92.84Mbps) for just £12.75 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £25.50 per month thereafter.

New customers joining now will also benefit from Virgin Media’s recent double broadband speed upgrade which has seen its entry level broadband speeds rise to 30Mbps – with the price remaining the same at £7.25 a month for the first 6 months.

Interested readers can find out more and order a new Virgin Media Collection online at the www.virginmedia.com/bundles website.

Sky (www.sky.com/sale) has extended its 9 months half price Sky Broadband Unlimited offer to midnight on the 19th April.

Available to order online only, the 9 months half price incentive means existing Sky TV customers can enjoy Sky Broadband Unlimited for just £3.75 a month, while new customers need only pay £5 a month.

Sky telephone line rental is required and costs £12.25 a month, while telephone calls to UK landlines during the evenings and at weekend are included at no additional cost.

Sky Broadband Unlimited is Sky’s premium broadband package which offers no monthly download usage caps or limits.

The package also includes a free Sky wireless router, 24/7 technical support and a free 3 month trial of McAfee Internet Security Suite.

In a recent customer service satisfaction report commissioned by Ofcom, Sky was found to offer its broadband customers unbeatable customer satisfaction compared with BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk.

Readers interesed in Sky’s 9 month half price broadband sale can find out more and order online at the sky.com/sale 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.