Madasafish and PlusNet merge networks

Posted 14th November 2007 by Alex Buttle

Madasafish and PlusNet are to combine their networks and infrastructure in December, it has been announced.

BT acquire Madasafish with Brightview buy-out

Posted 6th July 2007 by Alex Buttle

BT has announced today that they have agreed to acquire Madasafish with the purchase of the Brightview Group Limited which runs the ISP, Brightview plc have preliminarily accepted an offer from BT of £15.8 million.

Madasafish without the strings

Posted 12th June 2007 by Alex Buttle

Award-winning ISP Madasafish have announced an exciting new deal aimed at shaking up the broadband world. From today they are ditching the wires and providing a free wireless networking kit for all new customers. The kit includes a wireless router and a USB dongle allowing the wireless connection of a desktop PC or Mac in addition to any existing Wi-Fi ready laptops and games consoles.

Virgin Media to cap speed for heavy downloaders

Posted 8th May 2007 by Alex Buttle

Virgin has announced a range of capping measures for heavy internet downloaders during peak hours. Virgin Media views peak hours as between 4pm and midnight, and they claim that this speed cap will only affect 5% of users from each tier of their service.

Top 10 Broadband March review.

Posted 30th March 2007 by Alex Buttle

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

Watchdog fails to look on the Brightview

Posted 23rd March 2007 by Alex Buttle

After the BBC Watchdog report on Wednesday 21st March was published, three of Brightview’s ISPs (Global, Waitrose and Madasafish) appeared in the top 4 of the proportional satisfaction survey.

Global appeared at the top with 95% satisfaction, with Waitrose and Madasafish placed second and forth respectively both with satisfaction levels over 90%.

Orange gets bitten by Watchdog

Posted 23rd March 2007 by Alex Buttle

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