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  • BT Sport goes free for ‘Open October’ – all UK homes get live Aviva Premiership rugby

    BT Sport goes free for ‘Open October’ – all UK homes get live Aviva Premiership rugby

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    BT Sport has announced two weeks of free evening access to its magazine and live sport programming. From 7pm Monday to Friday for the weeks of 7th and 14th October, the channels will be available at no cost to anyone with Freeview, BT TV, Sky or Virgin TV. Freeview and YouView households will be able…

  • BT adds Curzon Home Cinema to YouView and Vision+ boxes

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    BT’s TV customers will be able to rent major international films on the same day as their cinema release thanks to a new deal with Curzon cinemas. The films will be available on a Pay Per View basis on both Vision+ and YouView from BT boxes via a branded Curzon Home Cinema section in BT’s…

  • BT extends fibre network to Irvine, Bo’ness and Ayr

    BT extends fibre network to Irvine, Bo’ness and Ayr

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    Almost 35,000 Scottish homes will gain access to super-fast broadband in the coming weeks after BT announced its fibre network has reached Irvine, Bo’ness and Ayr. BT says its fibre footprint now passes more than 16 million UK homes and businesses and is expected to pass around 19 million – two-thirds of UK premises by…

  • BT Sport app heads towards 1m downloads

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    Almost 1m smartphone and tablet users have downloaded the BT Sport app, the channel’s boss announced today. Marc Watson, CEO of BT TV, said the app’s popularity matched the growing trend of watching TV online and predicted the firm’s fibre broadband services would become an increasingly be an important platform for television.   Watson used…

  • Rugby: BT Sport announces free-to-air Harlequins v Northampton Saints clash

    Rugby: BT Sport announces free-to-air Harlequins v Northampton Saints clash

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    All UK homes will be able to watch this Friday’s Aviva Premiership Rugby clash between Harlequins and Northampton Saints after Bt Sport bosses announced the game would be broadcast free to air. The match will air on BT TV (507/510/58), Sky (413/426), Virgin (547/549) and Freeview (57) from 7pm.  Existing TV subscribers will be able…

  • TP-Link Archer C7 and BT Sport – an update

    TP-Link Archer C7 and BT Sport – an update

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    We first played with the TP-Link Archer C7 last month when we flagged it up as a router which seemed to work just peachy with BT’s new internet delivered (IPTV) sports channels. Since then we’ve been using the device on a rotating basis alongside BT’s HomeHub 3 and the Apple Airport Express, assessing and comparing…