Comms & Technology

Advertised broadband speeds are often misleading, according to a report by the communications watchdog Ofcom out this morning.

Make sure you never pay sky-high rates to call a freephone number from a mobile.

The EU's trumpeting that from today mobile charges within Europe will be capped. Yet they're still expensive, though there are tricks to limit costs.

Major mobile phone makers have agreed to design a charger that will be compatible on most handset makes. They should be available from next year.

Orange has today launched a new £5 pay-monthly plan, which includes a handset, in what is believed to be the cheapest-ever standard contract mobile tariff.

Tiscali customers can probably breathe a sigh of relief after the troubled telephone, broadband and TV provider’s UK operations were bought by TalkTalk today.