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BT has teamed up with Cashbox, a leading supplier of ATM cash machines in the UK, to offer BT Wi-Fi Broadband hotspots at Cashbox’s 2,500 UK cash machines.

The 5 year deal will help boost Wi-Fi broadband connections across the country, with homes and businesses near the cash machines set to benefit once BT has integrated the Wi-Fi technology into the machines.

To start with, there will only be 10 ATM’s that are upgraded by BT, however, when the upgrade is finished there will be 2,500 ATM’s installed with the new Wi-Fi broadband capabilities.

The CEO of Cashbox, Ciaran Morton, said, “As a customer focused business, we are continually looking for ways to extend our service offering, and with exciting initiatives such as this we are providing our customers with additional opportunities to utilise the ATM machines. May was an all time record month for transaction levels as people are finding cash preferable to credit in the current economic climate.”

The General Manager of BT Openzone, Chris Bruce, said, “We are seeing huge demand for Wi-Fi in the leisure and hospitality sector. BT customers can also connect at over 190,000 residential and commercial hotspots in the UK and Ireland including BAA airports, BA lounges, Caffe Nero, Hilton, Thistle and Ramada Jarvis hotels and, from July 2009, Starbucks coffee stores.”

There are currently 4.8 million BT Broadband customers who have inclusive Wi-Fi minutes in their contracts that can be used at BT Openzone Hotspots.

It has yet to be announced which 10 Cashbox ATM’s will initially benefit from the Wi-Fi upgrade.

As BT pushes ahead with its plans for 60Mbps fibre optic broadband speeds by 2010, Virgin Media has now announced that its current network is capable of up to 200Mbps broadband.

The Chief Executive of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, said, “We have an opportunity with our network to provide significantly higher speeds.”

Virgin Media’s current network offers broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps, but BT has since announced that its new fibre optic network will offer speeds of up to 60Mbps.

BT plan to have their new speeds ready for parts of the UK by 2010 and to 40% of UK homes & businesses by 2012, but Neil Berkett claims the transition to faster speeds will be a “function of timing”.

In his statement he said: “When we look at the market I don’t see us getting returns right now for 100 or 150Mbps broadband. As we work with application providers and content providers, there will be a natural point where we upgrade from 10, 20 and 50Mbps to something more.”

He continued, “If BT were to meet the time frame they have suggested – of finishing by 2012 – I would see us as having much faster upstream speeds together with running at a minimum of 100Mbps downstream and possibly more. You can see a real opportunity there.”

Only time will tell if BT can offer its new super-fast broadband speeds in the time stated. If not, then it seems there will be an even faster alternative available from its rival.

From today, BT’s new 2.0 black home hub wireless router is available for free when you order BT Broadband Option 1 online.



The new wireless home hub from BT provides up to twice the wireless range of any other UK broadband supplier and is proving to be a popular device for wireless broadband users.

BT Broadband Option 1 costs from £7.95 a month and includes free evening and weekend UK calls. You can also get a free digital TV Freeview recorder when you add BT Vision (BT’s digital TV service) to your online broadband order.

For more information go to our BT Broadband review.

You can now get a free BT Home Hub wireless router when you order BT Total Broadband Option 1. This is an exclusive online offer only so you must order BT Broadband online to receive this.



The free BT Home Hub is version 1.5 and comes in white. For an additional one off cost of £25 you can upgrade to the new black BT Home Hub 2.0 wireless router.

BT Home Hub 2.0 uses ‘N’ technology which provides up to twice the wireless range of any other UK broadband provider. This consistently gives you a better wireless broadband connection.

Please visit our BT Broadband review for more information on BT’s great new exclusive online offer.

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.