Broadband, TV and smart home technology
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 Sport has won the rights to show all of Germany’s international friendly matches, as of September 3 and the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB) Cup, Germany’s equivalent…
Illegal downloaders face a new hurdle: pop-up ads warning they’re about to be involved in content piracy. City of London Police will be implementing the…
EE’s latest 4G network expansion brings superfast mobile broadband 21 locations including the Cornish town of Saltash. Saltash is the first town in Cornwall to…
Students have reported BT demanding early termination fees after their nine-month broadband deals were wrongly billed as 12-month contracts. The shorter deals were advertised by…
The Mayor of London’s 2050 London Infrastructure Plan is calling for London to be the first capital city to deploy a 5G broadband network. The…
Budget ISP Primus Saver has revealed three new unlimited broadband plans to replace its limited 20GB tariff. Primus Saver has announced three new broadband plans…
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…
The BBC Sport app is now supported on Chromecast, letting sports fans cast live streams to their TV sets. Chromecast support for the iOS and…
Now TV, Sky’s subscription streaming service, has finally arrived on Xbox One. The on-demand platform, available on the last-gen Xbox 360 since August 2013, was…
BT’s network division Openreach has launched a page on its site where it shows how quickly it’s fixing lines and getting new customers connected. The…
Vodafone has announced it will be selling Google’s Chromecast TV streaming device for £25 to 4G Pay Monthly customers. The deal goes hand-in-hand with Vodafone’s…
A City of London policy chairman has hit out at BT over the capitals’ superfast famine. Mark Boleat, chairman of the policy and resources committee…
Syfy Sync and Philips Hue are working together to give you a more immersive movie experience while watching the sure-to-be-masterpiece Sharknado 2: The Second One. …
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…
Hotel WiFi Test, a site that lets you compare the speeds of WiFi in hotels, claims that it’s now got a better idea of how…
Primus Saver is scrapping download caps on all of its broadband packages and will be introducing new services in August. Previously, Primus Saver offered a…
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