BT Broadband

BT Broadband has a number of broadband packages with inclusive features to help you use the internet safely and securely.
Compare BT broadband packages including its total broadband packages and business broadband packages, which currently have a number of special offers available whcih you can take full advantage of.

BT Broadband Packages

	Option 1	Option 2	Option 3
Offer Price	£7.78	£13.69	£18.59
Standard Price	£15.65	£20.54	£24.46
Offer Period	3 months	3 months	3 months
Connection Fee	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Contract Length	18 Months	18 Months	18 Months
Speed	Up to 20Mbps	Up to 20Mbps	Up to 20Mbps
Download Limit	10GB	20GB	Unlimited
Hardware	Wireless BT home hub	Wireless BT home hub	Wireless BT Home Hub
Mailboxes	N/A	N/A	N/A
Other Details
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BT Business Broadband

	Option 1	Option 2	Option 3
Offer Price	£19.79	£26.99	£40.50
Standard Price	£19.79	£26.99	£40.50
Offer Period	None	None	None
Connection Fee	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Contract Length	Various	Various	Various
Speed	Up to 8Mbps	Up to 8Mbps	Up to 8Mbps
Download Limit	10GB	Unlimited*	Unlimited*
Hardware	None	Wireless Hub	Wireless Hub
Mailboxes	10	10	10
Other Details
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BT History

BT is the world's oldest communications company, with a direct line of descent from the first commercial telecommunications undertaking in the world. The Electric Telegraph Company established in 1846, was the first outside the United States to exploit leading edge telegraphy technology and introduce electrical communications to an astonished world. Within ten years an international network had been developed, making communications possible within minutes and hours instead of days and weeks. The consequences for every aspect of society were dramatic and profound.

The United Kingdom telephone service in its early period from 1878 was provided by private sector companies such as the National Telephone Company (NTC), with the General Post Office (GPO) soon in competition. In 1896, the GPO took over the NTC trunk telephone service. In 1912, it became the monopoly supplier of the telephone service when the GPO took over the whole private sector telephone service in the UK, except for a few local authority services. These municipal services all folded within a few years of set up, the sole exception being the city of Kingston-upon-Hull where the city telephone department became present day Kingston Communications.

In March 1965, the Postmaster General of the time, Anthony Wedgewood-Benn, wrote to the Prime Minister proposing that studies be undertaken aimed at converting the Post Office into a nationalised industry. A working party was established to look into the advantages of such a change and to consider the problems which might arise. The findings were favourable enough for the Government to establish a Steering Group on the Organisation of the Post Office. After some initial deliberations that the business should be divided into five divisions - Post, Telecommunications, Savings, Giro and National Data Processing Services - it was eventually decided that there should be one corporation split into two divisions: Post and Telecommunications. These events finally resulted in the introduction of the Post Office Act, 1969.

Under the Act, the Post Office ceased to be a government department and, on 1 October 1969, it became established as a public corporation. The Act gave the Post Office the exclusive privilege of running telecommunications systems with listed powers to authorise others to run such systems. Effectively, the new Post Office Corporation retained its telecommunications monopoly.

In 1977, the Carter Committee Report recommended a further separation of the two main services and for their relocation under two individual corporations. The findings contained in the report led to the renaming of Post Office Telecommunications as British Telecom in 1980, although it remained part of the Post Office.

The British Telecommunications Act, 1981 transferred the responsibility for telecommunications services from the Post Office, creating two separate corporations. At this time the first steps were taken to introduce competition into the UK telecommunications industry. In particular, the Act empowered the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, as well as British Telecom, to license other operators to run telecommunications systems. Additionally, a framework was established which enabled the Secretary of State to set standards with the British Standards Institution (BSI) for apparatus supplied to the public by third parties, and had the effect of requiring British Telecom to connect approved apparatus to its systems.

The Secretary of State made use of these new powers and began the process of opening up to competition both the public switched telephone network and the apparatus supply market, where a phased programme of liberalisation was started in 1981. In 1982, a licence was granted to Cable & Wireless to run a public telecommunications network through its subsidiary, Mercury Communications.

On 19 July 1982, the Government formally announced its intention to privatise British Telecom with the sale of up to 51 per cent of the company's shares to private investors. This intention was confirmed by the passing of the Telecommunications Act, 1984, which received Royal Assent on 12 April that year. The transfer to British Telecommunications plc of the business of British Telecom, the statutory corporation, took place on 6 August 1984 and, in November 1984, more than 50 per cent of British Telecom shares were sold to the public.

BT Total Broadband packages also come with FREE Wi-fi minutes 250 with option 1, 350 with option 2 and an unimited amount of minutes with option 3.

In addition to the above you can get 5GB FREE online storage and you get FREE UK evening and weekend broadband calls included with their broadband packages

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