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Time Limited offer: BT TV customers can rent Rogue One: A Star Wars Story for just 99p
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The film is a standalone prequel to the 1977 original Star Wars and tells the story of a group of unlikely heroes who band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction.
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BT’s new free WiFi and phone kiosks go live in London
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Supported by advertising, the “sleek, ultramodern kiosks” – dubbed ‘InLinks’ – will be able to offer free ultrafast Wi-Fi, with speeds of up to 1Gbps, to “hundreds” of simultaneous users.
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BT Vision+ to lose all subscription content next week
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The remaining users of BT’s legacy TV platform, Vision+, have been warned the service will complete its shutdown next week. As revealed by SEENIT in January, the firm is migrating customers away from the Vision platform to its new YouView set top boxes. The switch-off got underway at the end of April when customers lost…
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BT Sports app to be included in SME broadband packages for the first time
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Today’s announcement means SME customers will also be able to watch all four BT Sport channels plus Boxnation via their BT Business Hub within the office or via a BT Wi-Fi hot spot to avoid using their mobile data allowance.
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BT Sport signs two year UK and Irish international hockey deal
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Today’s deal with the International Hockey Federation will see the channel broadcast more than 700 hours of live coverage over the next two years, including the women’s World Cup in London and the men’s World Cup in India.
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BT Sport to show Sir Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup bid to all Freeview HD homes
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The broadcaster will show the first 12 days of racing from the Qualifiers and the Challenger Play-off semi-finals, plus highlights from the Challenger Final and the America’s Cup Match, on its subscription-free channel.