Broadband News: Sky

The number of Sky Broadband customers is set to grow due to the advantageous position the provider finds itself in, according to one expert. Continue reading…

Sky made serious inroads into the broadband market in the last quarter, adding a significant amount of new broadband customers. Continue reading…

An ISP has announced its plans to offer broadband subscribers a music download service. Continue reading…

Sky has played down rumours that it will be implementing a new fibre-optic broadband network through green kerbside telephone boxes. Continue reading…

The dominance of the broadband market by BT and Virgin Media could be tested after BskyB carried out testing on "super-fast" broadband, a recent media report has indicated. Continue reading…

Sky was responsible for connecting more than a third of all new broadband customers in the UK in the first quarter of 2008. Continue reading…

Consumers are increasingly looking to get their broadband, telecoms and other such services from the same company, it has been claimed. Continue reading…

Many Sky broadband customers were left without email service yesterday after the company switched off its message systems. Continue reading…

Sky broadband saw a 28 per cent growth in sales in the second half of last year, the company has announced. Continue reading…

Non-Sky broadband subscribers are now able to download the broadcaster’s shows following the launch of a brand new service. Continue reading…

Satellite broadcasting giant and broadband provider Sky has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) over an advertisement that was deemed to be "misleading" to the public. Continue reading…

The head of Sky has slammed the standards of service and value for money offered by the firm’s rival broadband providers. Continue reading…

Sky’s broadband service has built up a customer base of over 1 million in just under 14 months, making it the UK’s fastest growing broadband provider. Continue reading…

BSkyB has revealed details of its new Picnic broadband bundles, which offer telephony, digital terrestrial TV and broadband access. Continue reading…

Satellite TV giant and broadband provider BSkyB is set to launch a standalone broadband service, it has been reported. Continue reading…

UK pay-TV company Sky posted their latest figures today which revealed a 10 per cent increase in full year revenues, partly due to their phenomenal success of their broadband package.
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Broadcaster BSkyB have added 259,000 new customers to their broadband service in the last quarter of the fiscal year, far exceeding their own expectations.
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Tiscali has agreed a monumental deal with BSkyB to make Sky’s basic channels such as Sky One and Sky News available through their new Tiscali TV platform.
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Cable TV, broadband and phone provider Virgin Media yesterday claimed that they have seen a reduction in the number of customers who are migrating from their service to Sky, following the removal of Sky’s basic channels.
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Following the very public spat with BSkyB, Virgin Media have announced a loss of 46,900 customers within the first three months of the year.
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By the end of April, Sky’s broadband customer base has gone from zero to 553,000 in just nine months. The number has also doubled within the last three months. With gross bookings standing at 669,000 Sky are on course to reach their target of 700,000 by the end of June. The Sky broadband network now reaches 60% of UK homes. Combined with Easynet they aim to achieve network coverage of 70% by the 30th of June. Continue reading…

A new report published by the Centre for Telecoms Research believes that consumers will pay on average around £10 per month for high-speed broadband access as intense competition between ISPs lowers the price. Continue reading…

Weeks ago Top 10 Broadband news informed you of the initial Virgin Media and BskyB squabble at the start of Virgin Media’s launch. For several weeks since, it has been quiet on that front, with Virgin seemingly worse off with a TV service missing key big names. However after mutually attacking advertising from both sides, Virgin Media are attempting to bring the feud to a climax by taking BSkyB to the High Court. Continue reading…

When rumours of the Pipex takeover started, four major companies were said to be interested: BT, Carphone Warehouse, BSkyB and Virgin Media. All were reportedly very interested in procuring the sixth largest UK internet provider, however matters may have taken a turn for the worst for Pipex if they expected a bidding war. Continue reading…

It is now exactly one year on since Carphone Warehouse introduced its TalkTalk ‘free broadband’ offer. Despite major delivery issues the service was an unexpectedly huge success, and caused a massive price war within the industry. So one year later, how is free broadband doing? Continue reading…

BT’s struggling Pay-TV service, BT Vision, is in the process of brokering a deal with betting firm Ladbrokes, which will enable subscribers to be able to bet during actual sporting events.

BT aim to give BT Vision a spark of life as since it’s launch in December 2006, only 5,000 subscribers have been obtained, of which is believed that 40% of this total is BT employees. Continue reading…

In the world of broadband there never seems to be a dull moment, and March 2007 proved no different. Here at Top 10 we like to keep an eye on all the news and report back to you all the important and interesting stories.

February’s main story was the Virgin/BSkyB battle, which continued Continue reading…

We often talk about the big players in the broadband market, but do we actually know who the biggest are, and how much of the market they actually hold?

Well we at Top 10 Broadband would like to illuminate the figures so that you can see who is the biggest and who possesses the weight to throw around. Continue reading…

Fresh news over the weekend has speculated that Virgin Media (currently the largest broadband provider in the country) is going to buy out Pipex for about £470m, possibly this week.

If the move goes ahead, Virgin Media will add Pipex’s 570,000 customers to its current 3.3m customers, however this may place Virgin Media in hot water with the competition commission body over its market share. Continue reading…

Orange gets bitten by Watchdog

At 8pm Wednesday 21st March the eagerly expected results from the BBC Watchdog report were televised. Watchdog specifies that this is not a statistical summary of the whole population’s views but a snapshot from the 50,000 people who voted. It is important to know Continue reading…

Following pressure from customers, the media and particularly uSwitch, Toucan on Wednesday agreed to stop advertising ‘unlimited broadband’.

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Virgin have announced that in May this year (2007), they are expanding their XL package from 10Mb/s to 20Mb/s. Rumours had been circulating for quite a while, however it is now confirmed that this will happen in May. This is a drive to attract new customers, particularly after the ongoing fiasco between them and Sky. Although Continue reading…

Pipex has been quick to respond to media speculation over the continuing rumour that the ISP is to be taken over.

Pipex have stated that they have appointed an asset management company and the investment bank UBS to show Pipex the options they have in the future. However Pipex have confirmed Continue reading…

According to data taken from almost 5,000 people, the smaller ISPs are performing better, with the likes of Be Broadband, Eclipse and Namesco averaging 9 out of 10 for customer satisfaction. These scores are based on reliability, speed, billing, technical service and customer satisfaction. Continue reading…

Well what a month it’s been in the world of broadband. There’s been new legislation, new technology and big arguments to settle. There was Ofcom’s new regulations on MAC codes, the launch of IPTV and Virgin Media’s and BSkyB’s now notorious disagreement. Continue reading…

This morning it was confirmed that Virgin Media has removed some of the BSkyB channels from its service after a bitter feud over TV rights. Virgin Media have accused BSkyB of raising their prices too high, with BSkyB claiming that the rises are justified. Continue reading…

Competition is set to increase within the triple play services (Broadband, Phone and Television), as Tiscali announced this week that on the 1st March 40,000 Homechoice subscribers will automatically Switch to Tiscali TV. Currently this service is only available in London and Stevenage, but there are plans to reach the Midlands and the North West by mid-2007. By the close of 2007 Tiscali aims to make Tiscali TV accessible to over 10 million homes. Continue reading…