Links - ISPs and related services
If you want to get online then someone somewhere has to provide the meens of accessing the internet.
there are a great many ISPs (internet service providers) available, but their individual prices, terms and conditions and special offers will vary. Those listed below are only a selection of those which are available, but are amongst the more mainstream ones.
internet service providers
- AOL UK
- BT Total Broadband
- My Internet Pass
- Orange Broadband
- Sky Digital
- TalkTalk
- Toucan
- Virgin Media
related products and services
- JumpTV JumpTV provides it's subscribers access to TV over the interent with several hundred channels from many countries to choose from.
- Ofcom Ofcom (the Office Of Communications) is the regulator for the UK communications industries and it's responsibilities internet provision. The main reason for customers to make use of Ofcom is to complain about their internet service provider, although the website also offers some useful information about resolving problems with internet providers.
- Onspeed ONSPEED was launched in 2004, and offers services to help speed up both computer and mobile phone based connections to the internet. It is claimed that using ONSPEED can make download times upto 10 times faster.
- My Internet Pass My Internet Pass offers pre-paid dial up internet access with a difference. Many ISPs offer a dial up package with unlimited access which is paid for on a monthly basis, My Internet Pass however offers the use of a freephone number for dial up internet access which is paid for in advance.
- Skype Skype is a software package which allows an internet connection (instead of a telephone connection) to be used to make telephone calls.