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Plusnet offers smooth connectivity for a premium

...Broadband provider Plusnet has started offering customers guaranteed jitter-free performance for applications such as... Read more

3 June, 2011 by David Meyer

BT to challenge Ministry of Sound copyright court order

...an adjournment of a court case brought by Ministry of Sound against PlusNet, an ISP owned by BT. That case had resulted in a court... Read more

5 October, 2010 by David Meyer

First customer goes live on 100Mbps fibre trial

...The BT-owned ISP PlusNet has claimed the first customer to go live on BT's fibre... Read more

21 July, 2010 by David Meyer

BT hit by national broadband issues

...at 8:30am and was resolved within 15 minutes, caused broadband supplier Plusnet to warn customers up and down the country of intermittent broadband connection... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

ISPs brand Mandelson 'internet villain' of the year

...for mobile broadband, Claranet for business customer service and business fixed broadband, PlusNet for consumer customer service, Cybermoor for access innovation, Childnet for internet safety... Read more

9 July, 2010 by David Meyer

PlusNet: FTTC broadband averaging 30Mbps speeds

PlusNet's trial of fibre-to-the-cabinet technology has produced average real... Read more

10 January, 2011

PlusNet to move customer support from SA to Sheffield

The BT-owned ISP PlusNet is to move all its overseas customer service staff to the UK... Read more

18 November, 2010
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Plusnet - Service Status & Updates 1.9

...blog posts, forums posts, service announcements and tweets from the UK ISP Plusnet. This app has been written by "Ashley Williams" who is a customer... Read more

1 May, 2012

BT and TalkTalk rapped over broadband sales info

...to assess compliance with the code. Other ISPs, namely Karoo, Sky and PlusNet fared better in the research with around 70 percent or more of... Read more

15 May, 2012

TalkTalk launches 80Mbps service as BT plans the same

...s ISP customers getting better connectivity before its retail customers do. Meanwhile Plusnet, a BT-owned ISP, said on Friday that its trial of '80... Read more

13 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Government tests single e-gov web portal

The government has launched the prototype of Alpha.gov.uk, aimed at cutting down on the plethora of official websites, as it announced the recruitment of 100,000 Race Online 2012 volunteers Read more

11 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Average broadband speeds still not half what's advertised

Broadband Britain: Ofcom lobbies for 'typical speed range' to be added to ads... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

ICO lets BT off the hook over data handling

...ICO) on Wednesday. The ICO investigation focused on BT's broadband subsidiary PlusNet, which sent unencrypted customer details to solicitors ACS:Law as part of... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Virgin hooks up more towns to 100Mbps broadband

...fibre-to-the-premise service by March. In addition, BT-owned ISP PlusNet has begun trials of a fibre-to-the-cabinet service with average... Read more

25 January, 2011

ACS:Law breach prompts ICO warning over data security

...names, addresses and IP addresses of 8,000 Sky broadband and 400 PlusNet customers suspected of sharing music and films have been made public. This... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

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