Broadband news archive

B4B News archive from October 2004
BT to respond to AOL?

BT is getting its retaliation ready after AOL UK dropped its starter broadband package to £17.99.
29 October 2004


AOL cut prices

Besieged AOL UK has finally cracked in the face of the broadband price war and lopped their prices too.
29 October 2004


Broadband thumbs up

Broadband is good for business. And that’s official.
25 October 2004


V21 woo customers

With competition becoming ever fiercer, Internet Service Provider, V Two One is offering new home broadband users their first two months for £9.99.
25 October 2004


Skype notches up almost 13 million users

Voice calls over broadband is evidently the latest in-thing to be doing with your broadband connection.
25 October 2004


Connected communities get connected

The first phase of the wireless broadband project in the Western Isles is likely to be rolled out before the end of next month.
25 October 2004


Off road broadband

A new report which promotes broadband as a means to cut traffic congestion in the UK is likely to help the growth of teleworking opportunities in the Highlands and Islands.
18 October 2004


Powering up with Broadband

Making the most of the opportunities broadband technology can really offer will be the theme of a major conference in the Highlands next month.
18 October 2004


Going down

The inexorable downward move of broadband access prices - as previously predicted here - continues with the news that BT has bent to pressure from rivals and lopped £2 off their BT Broadband Basic product.
07 October 2004