Telecoms

  • Sky and BT Sports announce Premier League fixtures

    Sky and BT Sports announce Premier League fixtures

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    Sport channel rivals BT and Sky have announced their respective line-ups for the coming Premier League season. The two companies will collectively pay £3bn for the rights to show live Premier League games. BT emerged as a surprised bidder in last year’s auctions, snapping up the rights to 38 games, including almost half the “first…

  • TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone

    TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone

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    ISP and TV provider TalkTalk is offering new and existing customers the chance to bag three months of free TV, calls and broadband. Customers signing up to The Big Free will get three months access to TalkTalk’s TV Starter Boost which includes Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts plus free phone and broadband and…

  • YouView celebrates first birthday

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    Today marks exactly one year since YouView unveiled itself to the UK’s tech media at a launch event held in London’s former County Hall. Unlike many of my colleagues, I left the event impressed with what we’d seen and expecting great things from the new service. I took to my keyboard and predicted that YouView…

  • Ofcom consults on lower fibre broadband wholesale switching fees and shorter contracts

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    Ofcom says it hopes to “promote competition among superfast broadband providers,” by lowering costs imposed by BT’s Openreach division and reducing wholesale contract lengths. The proposals, which are now being consulted on, are part of a package of measures published on Wednesday by the telecoms regulator. Openreach is responsible for installing and connecting services on…

  • TP-Link announces new 802.11ac dual band wireless router

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    TP-Link has announced the launch of a new 802.11ac dual band wireless router, the Archer C7, which is says will provide ultrafast speeds for enhanced connected homes and offices. The device supports simultaneous wireless speeds up to 1300Mbps at 5GHz and 450Mbps at 2.4GHz and allows the sharing of files over WiFi as well as…

  • BT Sport channels appear on YouView EPG

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    BT’s sports channels have appeared on YouView’s EPG, the first internet delivered channels to appear in the platform’s guide. BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 , BT Sport 1 HD and BT Sport 2 HD have appeared on the guide at channel numbers 507, 508, 510 and 511 respectively for users whose boxes are connected…