PlusNet
Summary
Plusnet is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) based in Sheffield, United Kingdom and owned as of January 30, 2007 by BT Group. Plusnet also operate the Metronet brand in the UK Internet marketplace.In March 1997 Choice Peripherals, a PC computer-peripherals company launched Force9 Internet. Among the founders of Choice Peripherals was Paul Cusack (Chairman), who later went on to create the hardware retailer Ebuyer, and Lee Strafford (Managing Director), who lead the business through most of its development up to the sale to BT in January 2007.The market growth of Force9 Internet was fuelled by Internet connectivity software that was supplied with every modem ordered through the online shop.The first Force9 Internet products based themselves on the dial-up Internet model that was popularised by Demon Internet (monthly subscription, plus the cost of local phone calls), but offered at a lower cost to subscribers (£7 a month + VAT) and more value-add features.
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Plusnet readies fibre broadband push
Plusnet, the BT-owned telecoms provider, is boosting advertising for its superfast fibre broadband offering as it looks to compete with players such as Virgin Media.
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The Hard Sell: Plusnet
'Joe treks up a glistening British hillside looking a bit like Peter Kay sheathed in David Mitchell's flesh suit'.
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Now TV is Sky's most significant strategic move since broadband
BT owns Plusnet, British Airways had Go – both suggest the history of big company discount brands is decidedly mixed. Now Sky has Now TV, a pay-as-you-go movie service aimed at the 13m homes reluctant to take on pay-TV. It is Sky's most significant strategic move since James Murdoch launched broadband, as the broadcaster quietly acknowledges that pay-TV growth has ground to a halt.
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Why service centre culture should be incorporated into social media
With the evolution of technology, communications are changing dimensions too. For example your grandparents would have used the telephone, mum and dad used email and today’s era uses social media to meet their communication needs.
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ISPs told to come clean on broadband speeds
TalkTalk and BT the worst offenders in mystery shopping exercise that showed broadband companies often fail to offer a speed quote to potential customers.
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888.com rolls out Big Brother Bingo
888. com, the online betting firm, has launched a 'Big Brother' bingo game through a partnership with Channel 5, the Northern & Shell-owned broadcaster, and production company Endemol.
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High court grants BT customer data delay
BT has today been granted a stay of execution in its bid to challenge attempts of rights holders to obtain personal details about customers without convincing evidence of illicit file sharing.
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BT in privacy row after sending customer data to ACS:Law
BT, the UK's largest broadband provider, sent details about its customers to ACS:Law, the firm of London solicitors at the centre of a huge data privacy row, in a form that could be read by anyone - and which have now spilt onto the web.
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BSkyB to challenge requests for customer information from ACS:Law
UK's fourth largest broadband provider says it will no longer cooperate with controversial law firm.
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STV launches range of hyperlocal sites
The Scottish broadcaster STV, the channel three licensee in Scotland, has unveiled an online and mobile hyperlocal initiative called STV Local with broadband provider Plusnet as its launch sponsor.
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