Posted by Telecoms on Mar 17, 2009 in
broadband There are literally hundreds of broadband comparison sites available now, but only a handful that stand out amongst the crowd.
Here is a list of 5 broadband comparison sites that you should visit before switching your broadband;
Top 10 Broadband http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/
A user friendly and well designed website, showing you simply and quickly how you can save money or get a better deal from dozens of different broadband providers. Prices are up to date and displayed clearly.
Broadband http://www.broadband.co.uk
Comprehensive broadband comparison site, although it’s worth being very careful with the pricing as many that appear like good deals are actually promotions which only last the first couple of months.
Money Supermarket http://www.moneysupermarket.com/broadband
Very comprehensive and detailed site, showing much more information than most others, shows prices clearly and is one of the few sites to actually mention the disadvantages of signing up with each provider.
Broadband Choices http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk
Great site for comparing the differences between each of the providers, also shows total annual cost to give you a better idea of the real cost of your new connection.
Prices are displayed clearly and include promotional timeframes.
Broadband Genie http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
Very simple to use and easy to navigate site, with prices displayed clearly. Not as many broadband providers as most of the other choices.
Tags: broadband comparison sites
Posted by Telecoms on Mar 9, 2009 in
Telephony BT Exchanges is the new directory service from BT, allowing you to lookup business and personal contact details.
There are many other things you can do with BT Exchanges including creating a ‘Plan’ which is a new feature, much like a personal organiser where you can organise all of your contacts into plans. For example, if you are going on holiday, you could create a plan called ‘holiday’ and add into it the travel agent, hotel, airline etc etc.
Another great feature of BT Exchanges is the ability to rate and review business contacts, your review and rating will then be shown under that contact for everyone else to see, which in turn builds up an average overall rating for each and every business.
All contacts you view via BT Exchanges can be saved and added to your ‘Contacts List’ for future reference and you can even click on multiple contacts and build up a short list of contacts for you to call through.
Tags: BT Exchanges, Directory Services
Posted by Telecoms on Mar 4, 2009 in
broadband The Office for National Statistics released their final report for Internet Connectivity at the end of last month, bringing these useful statistics to an end after 9 years of publishing.
The ONS concluded that 95.1% of all internet connections are now via broadband with a decrease of 57.1% of dial-up connections to December 2008.
Also interesting to learn was the speed of peoples internet connections, with 59.6% of broadband users subscribing to a services faster than 2Mbs, whilst the remaining 40.4% subscribed to a services of 2Mbs or slower.
10.7% of subscribers of these high speed subscribers were lucky enough to get speeds of greater than 8Mbs, a 10% increase over the number of 8Mbs+ connections since September of 2008.
The United Kingdom is now ranked 11th in the world for broadband penetration, with 27.6 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, pushing it well infront of Australia, Japan, the United States, Italy and Spain.
Leaders in the Broadband penetration statistics were Denmark with 36.7 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, followed closely by the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway & Iceland.
Tags: broadband, statistics