I was only saying a few days ago that ISPs were looking to cut costs by banning high traffic websites and service like iplayer and youtube. so it came as no surprise to me when I heard on the news today that carphonewarehouse are looking at splitting TalkTalk (AOL) broadband from its high street retail stores, so what will carphonewarehouse do ?, they have reportedly lost 11,000 users in that last 6 months due to an oversight of 93,000 unreconciled AOL accounts.

So what’s the next move? TalkTalk is cheaper than AOL, but AOL still has a better brand image

Carphone Warehouse said. “In view of the pressure on family budgets we plan to re-price AOL services and move people to TalkTalk more quickly than previously planned,”

Even though they recently moved customers on to their own network as a cost saving exercise, some pundits believe that the service is close to capacity, even with the debts of 80 million  wiped out with the 50% sale of the company to BestBuys, the future does not look too rosy at the moment.

Patrick had mentioned to me at the A4u conference that he knew the owner 6th Gear Supercar Driving Experience Simon George and the fact that Elvington Airfield in York is only 36 miles away from my home .

I don’t even know who mentioned that we should have a lads day out.. but when Simon invited me, Kieron Donoghue, Patrick Altoft, Chris Garrett, and Al Carlton for a VIP day, how could I refuse? I mean VIP.. :)

Day started well, a quick spin around the track in a Range Rover with a female instructor basically pointing out racing lines and brake points, explained when to overtake and how. To be honest while sat in the Range Rover with Lamborghini’s roaring past us, I felt like a 10 year again.

This is me being told not to mess about ;) joke, in fact the instructors actually made the day for me, they made you drive faster and faster

me getting ready for my first Supercar Experience of the day…

more Supercar Driving

not sure if the DB9 is a Supercar, but it scared the willies out of me

If you want to make someone feel like a ten year old, then 6th Gear do Driving experience vouchers for £89 - and if you really have a ten year old they have Junior Ferrari Driving Experiences

DaveN

The Internet is not Free, The Internet is not Free, The Internet is not Free … repeat until it sinks in. As you may be aware Bronco is an ISP, so it’s something that I do know about!

With the increase in high bandwidth app’s like iPlayer, YouTube and iTunes increase, I thought that the ISPs that benefited from offering cheap broadband with a free laptop and 1 years supply of beer ( last bit may have been an offering we were looking at!), then Griffin partnered with Tiscali and since then Griffins Quality of service dropped so much their business offering was just as bad as Tiscali’s home offerings

So in a recent email from our supplier Griffin, we are now informed that we need to increase of prices to customers by up to 12% and if their usage goes over 50gb a month they will have to have an extra BT line and get another adsl account ..

PlusNet recently complained that their average cost per user has tripled since the launch of the iPlayer and other leading ISPs approach the BBC for funding to off-set their increase in costs. Entanet well they aren’t bothered they offer a PAYG service? … but if the big ISP’s can’t bash out a deal Youtube in the UK may be a thing of the past ..

DaveN

Seems that our Per click team have been sitting some more exams, Adam just took and passed :

Well done Adam

DaveN

Ok I know that it stands for Search Engine Optimisation, but when I’m asked by people not in the industry what is the best way to explain without my normal smart arse response…so when people say what does SEO stand for? what should I answer?

DaveN