The PC Pro Awards 2009 were awarded last night in London. We were awarded joint third place overall for Best ISP with 5 out of the available 6 stars. Plusnet did particularly well in the ‘Customer Support’ and ‘Would you recommend?’ categories. More…
This year’s Top 10 Broadband Awards were held in London yesterday.
Plusnet impressed the judges with our Value Broadband package at just £5.99 a month.
The Top10 judges examined the monthly costs associated with each of the nominated broadband providers and paid close attention to the extras included in the packages.
On awarding the prize for Best Value Home Broadband, the Top10 judges said: “At just £5.99 a month, Plusnet Value offers the best value home broadband on the market”. More…
Plusnet has been recommended in this year’s PC Advisor Broadband Survey.
The survey, now in its fifth year, asked people to provide feedback on the reliability of their connections, the download speeds they achieve and the customer service they receive. More…
Top 10 Broadband, one of the UK’s most popular independent broadband price comparison sites has announced the nominees for its 2nd annual Top 10 Broadband Awards.
After reading Matt’s Twitter blog that he published a couple of weeks ago, I thought I’d take the opportunity to write a follow-up piece about my own experiences with the increasingly popular micro-blogging cum social networking service of the moment.
What I found particularly interesting about Matt’s blog were some of the comments that readers had left. Whilst there aren’t many, what is evident from these comments is something that I’ve noticed on a much larger scale when chatting to friends, family and work associates about the new social networking phenomena – You either love it, or you hate it! More…
I’ve been using Google Chrome as my primary browser for several months now and the one feature that has really impressed me is the omnibox. It’s essentially the browser address bar and default search box combined but it’s more powerful than either on its own.
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Breaking news: A partnership comprising the BBC, BT and ITV has just announced a plan to bring a new common industry approach to deliver on-demand TV over broadband, dubbed ‘Project Canvas’.
The full press release is available on the ITV website, but here’s a taster.
“The BBC, ITV and BT today are joining together to work as partners to promote a common industry approach and consumer offer to deliver on demand TV over broadband. The initiative is open for all public service broadcasters, device developers and other ISPs.”
It sounds like this might be an initiative big enough to truly bring TV over broadband from the PC onto the TV. We’re big fans of the BBC iPlayer and like the sound of something that could build on that success. The service will work alongside Freeview and Freesat. Here’s a quote from Ian Livingston, BT’s CEO:
“Television and broadband are a compelling combination. Together they can offer live TV along with an unrivalled choice of on demand content and interactive services. It will mean that you can watch what you want whenever you want on your television. We are looking forward to working with The BBC, ITV and other internet service providers to support an open standard for the free to air market in the UK.”
As we find out more we’ll let you know…
Neil Armstrong
Products Director, Plusnet
We all want to go faster. And one of the most anticipated changes in the UK broadband market has started. As part of BT’s 21st Century Network project a programme to upgrade the UK’s exchanges to support ADSL2+ is well under way. We want to be able to offer our customers the fastest speed possible as soon as possible. But we also want to make sure customers will get a reliable service. So I wanted to see for myself just how good ADSL2+ is.
Well you’re here reading this, so it’s a fair bet you’re aware of our Community site – a repository for blogs by staff members on all sorts of issues from the internets, on our own service, on new technologies and also the home to our community forums.
It’s certainly one of the most used and definitely one of the most useful resources that we have. We are, we think, justifiably proud of the way it’s grown and still growing. More…
The never-ending debate about whether Facebook is good or evil grinds slowly on. Various news sites, including the Beeb, have swung the pendulum back towards social networking being ‘a good thing’ for businesses. Graham Jones gets it right again though – this isn’t anything new!
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