Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Sky and TalkTalk have announced a deal that sees customers able to get their Premier League football fix either with the TalkTalk TV Sky Sports…
TalkTalk TV, the YouView-based catch-up centric service from TalkTalk, has added 175,000 customers over the last three months. The latest results for TalkTalk see its…
Cable thieves have stolen almost a kilometer of copper from Virgin Media’s network in West London over the last month. Criminals took 360 metres, 100 metres…
TalkTalk customers making do with last-gen sub-2Mbps speeds are more likely to go for superfast fibre, according to the company’s latest quarterly results. In the…
CityFibre has launched a ‘Gig Up’ canvassing campaign in Peterborough, inviting businesses to sign up for its ultrafast broadband roll out. The company will start…
Blinkbox is bringing back its Try TV on Us offer with free episodes of hit shows such as Sherlock and Breaking Bad. The Tesco-backed film and…
Wiltshire Council’s decision to roll out fibre-based broadband in rural areas has prompted Gigaclear, a provider of faster gigabit fibre broadband, to pull out. Gigaclear…
Freesat has opened entries for its annual awards this year. The satellite platform is looking for broadcasters, channels and producers to make entries for a…
YouView has added S4C to its expanding catch-up library. The on-demand service for the Welsh language channel lets viewers watch programmes for up to 35…
Video streaming service Wuaki.tv has launched a new app for iOS devices that brings the service to the iPhone and iPad. The Wuaki.tv Player, available…
Freetime, Freesat’s smart TV package that lets viewers catch up on missed shows, has proved a hit with two in five customers now buying a…
The government is reported to have started on building a whitelist of websites to tackle the problem of wrongly-blocked sites by web filters. The list…
BT engineers have reconnected customers in Southampton and the West and Central Downs knocked offline by floods and storms. The extreme weather which blasted several…
iPad and Android tablet owners can now stream the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and 20 other channels legally with a TVPlayer app for larger…
BT Sport has successfully managed to score 2.5 million customers since its launch in August last year. The latest quarterly figures from BT don’t reveal…
Direct Save Telecom has expanded its broadband footprint in the UK and is now offering customers an “out of area” package for £14.95 per month….
BT’s latest figures show that BT Broadband remains the UK’s biggest ISP. The company announced that it added 150,000 new customers in the last three…
Freesat viewers will now be able to access BBC News and BBC Sport through apps launched on the platform’s Freetime service. The apps will give…
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