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PlusNet's Polished Mirror
Blog PlusNet has always been quite good at catering to various segments of the market, but even they have stopped shy of introducing a foreign-language internet provision service within the UK - until now.
[June 25, 2007, 17:24]
PlusNet Plans Flotation On AIM
News UK Internet service provider PlusNet is hoping to raise millions of pounds by floating itself on the London stock market. PlusNet announced on Monday that it intents to become a member of Britain's alternative investment market (AIM).
[June 7, 2004, 13:30]
Plusnet Now Minus Webmail
Blog Comment What plusnet are apparently not revealing is that it seems it is not just their webmail service which was hacked. Our private non-plusnet email address (nothing to do with plusnet webmail) stored by plusnet as part of our account details and...
[May 18, 2007, 11:46]
PlusNet Customers Suffer Spam Deluge
News Customers of PlusNet, the ISP, have been hit by a deluge of spam after their email addresses were stolen. It has come to our attention that a number of customer email addresses have been obtained illegally by a third party," PlusNet said on Tuesday.
[May 15, 2007, 11:50]
PlusNet Suffers Data-centre Outage
News Internet service provider PlusNet suffered a complete power outage in its primary data centre early on Thursday morning. According to PlusNet, the outage occurred at 1am, knocking out most of the ISP's internal systems, portals and email.
[February 21, 2008, 12:34]
PlusNet's Sacked Chief Exec Could Sue
News Lee Strafford, the former chief executive of internet service provider PlusNet, who was dismissed earlier this week by PlusNet's new owner BT, is reported to be consulting lawyers over his dismissal. An article in Wednesday's Independent suggested...
[March 7, 2007, 15:28]
PlusNet Targets Dial-up Users With Slower ADSL
News PlusNet has become the latest UK Internet service provider to offer a cut-price and reduced-speed ADSL product. We believe that DSL Connect will meet what we see as a huge demand for convenient, always-on connectivity at the same price as most...
[December 12, 2003, 13:50]
PlusNet Deletes Customers' Emails Again
News PlusNet has again lost some of its customers' emails, echoing troubles experienced by the internet service provider last year. PlusNet estimates that around 10 percent of legitimate emails that were "dequeued" from the new appliance were falsely...
[August 23, 2007, 17:16]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback Just to note that I think there needs to be clarification here: "A number of PlusNet's customers had reported problems in the migration, and the company refunded those who had experienced more than seven days of downtime.
[September 1, 2006, 12:56]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback PlusNet were a fantastic company when I joined two years ago. Prior to PlusNet I was with Tiscali, seemingly part of PlusNet's problem. I was a modest user so unlimited/fair usage was not an issue. However many problems occured, most did not bother...
[September 1, 2006, 16:01]
Plusnet Offers Speedier Broadband Upgrades For A Fiver
News Broadband provider Plusnet is offering a faster migration to customers wanting to upgrade to its max-speed product — for a fee. Customers who have opted for the free upgrade up to 8Mbps may have to wait for up to 11 weeks to go through the bulk...
[September 27, 2006, 17:00]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback Whilst not experiencing any major outages, since PlusNet converted me to LLU and (supposedly) increased my speed to 8Mb I've had no end of problems. Ther service is now so inconsistent and I experience regular daily drop-outs of connection.
[September 1, 2006, 17:07]
PlusNet Emails 'gone Forever'
News Thousands of customers' emails, totalling around 700GB of data, have been lost forever, Internet service provider PlusNet has admitted. The incident has been "taken very seriously within PlusNet", a spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Friday, adding the...
[August 4, 2006, 12:45]
PlusNet Admits Human Error In Email Disaster
News A large number of subscribers to the Internet service provider (ISP) PlusNet have experienced a serious outage of their email services, which also seems to have led to thousands of emails being erased.
[July 12, 2006, 15:40]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback Attack is obviously the only defence left to PlusNet. The PlusNet forums (PUG Usergroup forum, ADSL Guide PlusNet forum and their own portal forum) are literally awash with customer complaints. At a rough guess, half of them are complaining that it...
[September 2, 2006, 1:05]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
News A senior PlusNet executive has hit out at those in the broadband industry who advertise free or unlimited connectivity, including partner Tiscali. PlusNet is a wholesale customer of Tiscali's in local loop unbundling (LLU), the process by which...
[September 1, 2006, 9:55]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback I was a Plusnet customer who migrated to them inthe days when he then new, migrations cost over £40. Which thankfully enabled me to migrate ot of Plusnet without incurring any of their 'penalty' charges & 5 year 'lock ins' that those that fell for...
[September 2, 2006, 10:19]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback Plusnet USED to be good, ie the first ISP to release [a business] 2meg before anyone else. Plusnet are NOT the ISP that they once were, I'm glad to go and I'm seriously going elsewhere - probably Bulldog.
[September 4, 2006, 11:48]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback I migrated from PlusNet as they were responsible for exactly the kind of unscrupulous misselling and business practises of which they are accusing others. This is a definite case of the pot calling the kettle black.
[September 4, 2006, 14:39]
PlusNet Emails 'gone Forever'
Talkback If PlusNet is willing to send the server drives to us in the U.S.we’re willing to help. In fact we will pay the shipping costs to see the the drives. Since we have no idea who they might have used for data recovery it’s quite possible the data is...
[August 5, 2006, 21:30]
