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Be Broadband, a company owned by Telefonica, has released a new budget value that offers internet connection speeds of 8mphs for around ?90 a year, at the rate of ?7.50 a month. The new deal is much better than the previous cheapest deal by the provider, but also allows users a download quota of 40GB per month.
Everything else in the budget package has the same details of any other Be Broadband package, which includes an ADLS2+ wireless modem, a one year contract, round the clock customer support, and an upload speed of 1.3mbps.
The provider stated that the contract will be for unlimited until June, 20th, 2010 and that users who think that they will need higher speeds or download quota can choose the next level up which costs ?13.50 per month.
Head of operations at Be Broadband, Tom Williams, stated that the company has noticed that the marketing trends are to provide more freedom among package options and packages that are lower in price.
O2 and TalkTalk will be the main competitors for customers after these facets with TalkTalk offering customers a package that includes broadband connection and free evening and weekend calls within the UK for only ?7 per month.
This may be more threatening for BE if it was not shouldered by its parent company O2 which allows it to build phone deals together with broadband in any areas where there is a network for it to utilize.
Filed under: Broadband Deals by Alan
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Now that O2 is owned by the Spanish operator Telefonica it has about 21m mobile phone subscribers as compared to BT which only has approximately 19.4m customers.
The news of the new rankings came as BT was forced to report a fall of 45pc in its pre-tax profits leaving their total at ?547m compared to the profits of Telefonica which are a much larger ?1.7 billion.
BT was forced to sell O2 in November of 2001 which was then known as BT Cellnet when profits started to collapse. In 2006 Telefonica purchased O2 for the record setting ?17.7 billion, which was the largest telecoms takeover in mobile history.
The chief executive of BT, Ian Livingston, seemed to regret selling O2 in comments that he made yesterday when he said that BT is pondering the best way to enter the mobile market once again when the Government finally auctions off mobile phone spectrum in the coming year.
According to Livingston, the proposals by the Government to give current operators the rights to the 2G licenses are a waste since a new auction is a best way give Government coffers a boost.
Analyst Lawrence Sugarman of ING stated that the comments show that BT?s revenues need to be increased and that the company is clearly looking at all possibilities for moving forward after they chose to leave the mobile market too early.
In just this year alone O2 has increased its mobile subscribers by about one million even though the other four major operators in the UK were only able to add 400,000 subscribers collectively.
Filed under: Broadband News and Reviews by Alan
