Broadband and Me

UK online PR release

After my previous entry on UK online their PR agency has sent me the Press Release. Some facts I missed before:

London, 15th November 2004 - UK Online launches today an 8Mb consumer broadband service to 4.4 million households. Priced at £39.99 per month, it brings groundbreaking speed at a groundbreaking price and makes the digital home a reality.

The service includes WiFi as standard and users can therefore connect multiple PCs, laptops and game consoles anywhere within the home. The high speed enables home users to download MP3s within seconds, on line gaming can move up a gear, and streamed videos start to look like real TV for the first time.

On the same infrastructure, UK Online is looking to add voice, TV and Video on Demand during 2005.

Also they seem to have been around longer than I thought:

UK Online, established in 1994... The ISP is known for its customer focus, with four out of five of its customers recommending the service to family and friends. Its UK-based customer service centre offers 24-hour support to novices and experienced users alike.

UK Online is the official ISP to Team GB, the UK’s Olympic team and demonstrated its support for the team in Athens in summer 2004. This support will continue throughout the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006.

So happy to put the record straight! And interested to note that PR companies (well Fuse PR anyway) are paying attention to blogs. Thanks to Tanya and Victoria for the info.