Tag: BT
Music industry's BPI pushing BT to block The Pirate Bay
Internet service providers and UK telecoms giant BT are being put under pressure by the BPI (a coalition of music industry officials, publishers and Hollywood studios) to pull access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. The request comes following a…
BT Wi-Fi hotspots coming to 300 UK pubs
Fancy a pint and a YouTube meme trawling session at the same time? Now you can thanks to a new partnership between BT and Heineken. They're bringing free BT Wi-Fi hotspots to over 100 London pubs and 200 more across…
BT and Everything Everywhere to test UK 4G LTE in Cornwall
BT and Everything Everywhere are to begin the UK's first 4G LTE trials. The partnership will see BT Wholesale and the Orange/T-Mobile umbrella group bring the superfast mobile broadband network to the area of Cornwall by September. 100 mobile and…
INTERVIEW: Radio's Colin Murray on digital music, football streaming with BT Infinity and his love of Super Mario
Colin Murray, radio DJ, sports pundit on the airwaves and TV and generally-all-round-nice-bloke has partnered up with BT to help them promote their growing BT Infinity super-fast broadband network. He's created an online guide on how to get the…
The truth about broadband: Still more turtle than hare, study finds
In the ads on TV, broadband comes in like rays of light from the sky. Songs are downloaded in seconds, and videos are streamed without the slightest hiccup. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones whose real life…
OnLive games streaming console goes on sale tomorrow
The OnLive MicroConsole, the video game streaming service that promises to revolutionise the way we play computer games, goes on sale in the US tomorrow. Though the PC version of OnLive has been available for a little while now, tomorrow…
Want fibre broadband in your area? Then get voting!
Hoping to see your broadband exchange get upgraded to a fibre-optic service? Well you may be able to fast-track the process thanks to Eclipse Internet. They've been given the opportunity by BT to nominate 5 exchanges to get a super-fast…
Surf's up in Cornwall as BT announce fibre-optic broadband plans
The county of Cornwall are set to get a broadband infrastructure boost, as BT outline plans to roll out their fibre-optic network to the area. 90% of Cornish homes will be able to get high-speed connections by the end…
App of the Day – BT FON Wi-Fi hotspot finder
Connecting to BT's Openzone wi-fi hotspots just got a lot easier for iPhone-owning BT Total Broadband customers. The new BT FON app makes tracking down one of BT's 1.6 million wireless zones easy, with maps guiding you to the nearest…
BT to raise call and line rental charges
BT have today announced plans to raise both landline call charges and line rental prices. BT will charge 10% more on each landline call made from October, and will raise line rental prices by 50 pence. It means that daytime…