BT’s fibre reaches 20m and connects 3m, but TV stalls in spring
BT’s fibre network upgrade now reaches 20 million premises and connects 3m, but its TV option isn’t keeping up with rivals Sky and TalkTalk. Network…
BT’s fibre network upgrade now reaches 20 million premises and connects 3m, but its TV option isn’t keeping up with rivals Sky and TalkTalk. Network…
Would you sign up to a £2,892-a-year contract over three years for just 330Mbps? Recombu reader Andrew Goff says BT’s Fibre on Demand is ‘the…
Lightning and floods have hit BT’s networks from Manchester to Southampton, placing engineers on emergency alert across the country. BT Openreach, which manages the ‘last…
Freesat has added just 6,000 new homes to its user base since March but Freetime smart TV boxes are now selling three times as much…
Signing up to the Telephone Preference Service will only cut spam calls by around a third but reduces other kinds of nuisance calls too. Communications…
TalkTalk’s TV customers can get a taste of streaming TV with four channels at no extra cost. CBS Action, CBS Drama, CBS Reality +1 and…
Blinkbox has joined rivals Netflix and Google Play Movies on the Chromecast TV streaming dongle. The Tesco-owned pay-per-view film service has upgraded its iPad and…
Four pioneering British TV tech companies have been picked to pitch their inventions to the world’s broadcasting industry. Chirp, CrowdEmotion, StreamHub and Grabyo won the…
Sky has doubled the number of broadband-connected Sky+HD boxes but could face a limit from users who haven’t upgraded older hardware. The On Demand-friendly new…
TalkTalk has overhauled BT as the UK fourth-largest TV service as it hires engineers for its BT-busting gigabit fibre broadband trial in York. The YouView-based…
Tech that measures viewers’ emotional reactions, chirps messages from your TV, and creates a personalised TV guide for everyone in the room is competing to…
EE and the BBC are teaming up to trial TV broadcasts using 4G mobile technology from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The trial will run…
Honeywell Evohome may not be a household smart energy brand like British Gas Hive and Google-backed Nest, but it’s been doing very well from the…
We love a leftfield idea here in Recombu’s smart home playpen – so combining an LED bulb with a speaker and giving both Bluetooth control…
Yo, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Digg, Foursquare, RSS feeds, Evernote, Fitbit, Gmail, smartphones, smart home kit – how many connected products and services do you have?…
Satellite TV platform Freesat is suing Amazon for using the trademarked brand ‘Freetime’ on a streaming video service with the Kindle Fire tablet. The British…
Whatever your views on Facebook’s massive experiment to manipulate our feelings via the manipulation of our news feeds, now you can run the experiment on…
Philips is starting to look like the Apple of smart lighting as GE joins Samsung and LG offering low-cost smartphone-controlled LED bulbs, with the GE…
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