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BT vision from BT TV offers a unique alternative
As hard as it may be to believe, not everyone adores television. For some it is a mere convenience or diversion and plays a simple and small role as part of their communications network. Indeed many people prefer to interact more directly with the world by means of their computer and broadband. [...]
Digital TV now reaches 90% of British Homes
Almost 23,000,000 households in the United Kingdom are now equipped with a DTV receiver. This figure being in sharp contrast to just 10 years before, when more than half of UK viewers received their television by means of analog signal.
Obviously the ongoing and almost complete changeover from analog to Digital TV has played [...]
BT TV and a program for people who don’t watch much television
For whatever reason there are some people who simply don’t watch a great deal of television. For these people BT TV offers a very unique service which we will refer to as pay as you go TV.
To qualify for BT Television you must contract for Broadband through BT. Your television service is based on [...]
Bundling telecommunications with Virgin TV
In order to receive a great deal for digital TV from Virgin Media you must combine that purchase with either home phone service or broadband connection, or as Virgin Media would no doubt prefer a package of all three. While many people have chosen to rely on mobile phone service entirely for their phone [...]
Virgin Cable TV and 4G communications
The world is rapidly moving towards what is called the fourth generation of global communication. While primarily a reference to mobile and home phone usage, 4G as it is called goes further than use in simple mobile phones. Indeed the combined use of Digital TV, broadband and home phone service has cleared a path for [...]
BT TV finds stiff competition from Virgin and Tiscali
The days when British Telecom could set a price for cable TV and command its payment are far behind us. Indeed, despite their vast financial resources BT TV is hard pressed to compete with rivals Tiscali and Virgin TV. The means by which Tiscali is able to offer packages of TV, Home Phone and Broadband [...]
Digital TV has entered a new era of choices
For those who don’t appreciate the value of intense competition, consider this. Thirty years ago TV in the UK was a government regulated medium with just a few channels and all of that sent by terrestrial airwaves. Programming was limited to that which could be accommodated by small budgets. Today British television quality is the [...]
The closest thing to free line rental available
A very old expression from the 1920s goes, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The UK equivalent today would be, “There’s no such thing as free line rental.” There are great deals to be had these days for home phone and broadband, but the base price of line rental, that is the cost [...]
A replacement for BT landline technology is on the way
One has to give Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Media credit. No one else in the last one hundred years has had the courage to directly compete with British telecom in the area of line rental. For those unaware, most of our TV, Internet connection and Telephone service reaches our homes via a copper line [...]
The best deals for cable TV service studied in depth
Many telecom providers around the UK are quietly trying to capitalise on the low cost of doing business over the internet by luring customers online with deals that are not available elsewhere. As found on consumer assistance website Digitalchoices.co.uk, British Telecom give its customers who sign up online a far superior pricing package for broadband [...]
Find the right option for you in cable or digital TV
Considering purchasing a package for TV and broadband? Perhaps you might even bundle this together with home phone service? As broadband becomes more integrated into our list of essential needs many people are discovering that they can actually receive digital TV for free when packaged with services like broadband. Or you may be of a [...]
Excellent values in digital TV compared for you
I am slow to admit it but I am well old enough to remember the days before cable TV existed. It seems as if I can still hear my father exclaiming, “Who on Earth would ever pay to watch television?” This statement becomes all the more ridiculous in the face of 1000 channels available through [...]
Smart comparison of home phone and broadband service
Why would anyone want to go through the bother of changing home phone providers? Isn’t it true that most of the companies offering line rental and call plans are all priced within a pound of each other?
Yes, this is absolutely true. On the surface it would seem that switching home phone companies is not likely to [...]
