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Sky Broadband are offering a £100 M&S gift voucher with all TV bundles for the next week only!
View all TV, broadband and phone bundles available from Sky - packages from £21.50 a month!
Offer only available to new customers. Voucher only available when signing up online. Offer ends Thursday 1st November 2012.
Posted on in ExpiredOffersVirgin Media
Virgin Media's TV, phone and broadband collections now come with £75 credit and free installation. This is an offer that stacks with the 6 months half price deal that is also currently in place on collections.
Virgin Media Essential Collection
Virgin Media Premiere Collection
Virgin Media VIP Collection
Line rental required at £13.90 a month. £75 credit available for online orders only. Classic Collection excluded from offer.
TalkTalk's new Plus TV, broadband and phone service has now been launched for £14.50 a month. YouView offers customers 74 Freeview channels, 4000+ films and shows, 7 day catchup and the option of Sky Sports and Movies. Customers will recieve a free YouView box (worth £299) and 12 months of LOVEFiLM Instant.
TalkTalk Plus TV, Broadband and Phone
Line rental required at £14.50 a month, or pay for a year upfront at £114, saving you £60 a year.
Posted on in ExpiredOffersVirgin Media
Virgin Media are now offering account credits on all of their broadband with phone and television packages. Receive £30 credit on broadband and phone products, and £70 credit on broadband, phone and TV collections.
Line rental required at £13.90 a month. Excludes Classic Collection. Offer is stackable with other current Virgin Media offers. Account credit will be applied to your first bill.
BT are offering £50 Sainsbury's gift cards with all their fibre optic Infinity packages. Get up to 38Mb download speeds with standard Infinity, and up to 76Mb download speeds with Infinity 2.
BT Infinity More Broadband and Weekend Calls
BT Infinity More Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls
BT Infinity Unlimited Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls
BT TV Essentials with Infinity Unlimited Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls
BT TV Unlimited with Infinity Unlimited Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls
BT Infinity 2 Unlimited Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls
Line rental required at £14.60 a month.
Posted on in News
August 2012 saw average download speeds recorded by users of our Broadband Speed Test drop slighty in comparison to the results from July's result, coming in at 17.72Mb. Average upload speed remained stable at 2Mb.
Virgin Media's average download and upload speeds have increased over last month to 33.4Mb (a 2Mb increase) and 2.81Mb respectively, ahead of everyone else. Fibre to the Cabinet provider Eclipse maintained second place with speeds dropping to 15.75Mb for average download speeds, and 2.65Mb for average upload speeds. BT Broadband held third place and also had a drop in speeds, with download speeds averaging at 14.17Mb and upload speeds at 2.79Mb. Plusnet came in at 4th place with 9.37Mb download, remaining stable since last month.
The best performing non-fibre-based provider was again BE and O2 (who share a common infrastructure) in at 5th place with 6.06Mb average download speed over their Local Loop Unbundled ADSL2+ service.
Due to a significant drop in overall tests by AOL users, AOL has been dropped from the list to ensure that overall results remain statistically useful.
Posted on in OffersVirgin Media
Virgin Media have introduced a new Classic Collection, offering customers broadband speeds of up to 30Mb, inclusive Talk Weekends call package, and 58 TV channels. On top of this, Virgin are launching with a 6 months half price offer, as well as a free 500GB TiVo box.
Virgin Media Classic Collection
Line rental required at £13.90 a month. Offer ends 30th November.
Posted on in ExpiredOffersPlusnet
Plusnet are offering twelve months half price on both Value and Extra broadband when taken with a phone package.
Plusnet Value with Home Phone Anytime
Plusnet Extra with Home Phone Anytime
Plusnet Value with Home Phone Evenings & Weekends
Plusnet Extra with Home Phone Evenings & Weekends
Evening & Weekends package inclusive, Anytime call package £3.50. Line rental required at £12.99 a month.
Posted on in Offers
TalkTalk have reintroduced their free £25 Love2shop voucher offer on Essentials and Plus packages. The offer is an online exclusive and applies to all new customers who don't need a new phone line installed. You'll need to hurry, as the offer ends on 6th September.
Browse TalkTalk Broadband and Fibre packages
Line rental required at £14.50 per month, or pay for a year upfront at £114, saving you £60 a year!
Posted on in OffersExpiredPost Office
The Post Office are offering 6 months free Home Phone Anytime calls with both their Standard and Extra broadband packages for all new customers.
Post Office Home Phone Anytime with Broadband Standard
Post Office Home Phone Anytime with Broadband Extra
Line rental at £13.25 required. Offer ends October 14th.