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It’s really very easy to get involved with this reward scheme when you are a BE Internet customer, just follow these simple steps:

Click the Tell a Friend button below

Login with your BE username and password

Enter the name and contact email address of your friend

And click submit

An automatic email will be generated to you friend

Remember, your friend MUST sign-up using the email address you provide to be credited

The more of your friends who join, the more credit you get. You can refer up to six people a year,and if all six sign up we’ll even give you an extra £40.00 credit.

Here are the benefits that your friends will receive:

Download speeds up to 16 meg – brilliant.

Upload speeds up to 1.9 meg

Unlimited downloads with a rather fair usage policy

Wireless BE Box modem included

24/7 member support hotline

A community of people who love the web as much as you do

ISP Review (ispreview.co.uk)

Having selected BE as an “Editor’s Pick” in the category of Best Balance of Price & Performance ISPs (Consumer), ISP Review notes that BE has “won high praise from around the web, not least for the real-world speed of its services and incredibly low pricing”.

BE Value is an entry level service and broadband product, that provides a solid download speed of up to 10 Mbps for just £17.00 each month; this is a 12 months contract but there is no additional connection charge.

Here are the benefits that you, as an existing customer making the referral, will receive:

Real world speed with a download capability of up to 10Mbps and an upload speed of 1.1Mbps. Furthermore, your supply will never waver and your speed will never be forcibly reduced so as to daisy-chain more customers onto your line of access. Unfortunately, some ISPs in the UK do this as common practice, but BE make sure that this is not the case. They also will not filter your access for downloading large or complex files, or for using the internet at what is considered peak times.

With BE Unlimited downloads you get what you want, without limits, and with a fair usage policy that is actually fair. A wireless modem is also included, so you can access the internet from any room in your home, which is far more convenient and better suited to a home with multiple computers.

Of course, there is also a great customer advice and support centre available at any time on any day should you need them. If you run into any trouble, you can raise a support ticket, start a live chat with a trained technician or alternatively just e-mail or call directly.

BE’s objective is to let customers enjoy a high quality internet service without interruptions or problems for just £17 a month, so refer a friend today and share the benefits!

It could be argued that British interest in Formula One has never been higher than it is at the moment, given the controversies surrounding Bernie Ecclestone and the recent Bahrain Grand Prix, the rivalry between British drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton (not forgetting Paul Di Resta!) and the acquisition of broadcast rights by Sky after years of BBC coverage.

There is, then, no better time to get yourself a ticket for the Santander British Grand Prix, which takes place at the legendary Silverstone race track on Sunday 8^th July. However, tickets are like gold-dust, and chances are you haven’t managed to get your hands on one. Don’t worry, though – Sky has literally hundreds of pairs of grandstand tickets to give away to customers who have the Sky Sports or HD channel pack. All you have to do is sign in with your Sky ID and password, fill in your name and address and answer two Formula One-related questions correctly to be in with a chance of winning. The prize includes two tickets but no travel, although you can get a park and ride pass if you want to drive there.

This will be 52 laps of pure adrenaline – you won’t be able to get the smell of burning rubber out of your nostrils for weeks afterwards! This fantastic, free-to-enter competition closes on May 31^st, so don’t miss your chance to experience one of the British sporting events of the summer!

Internet security and safety, especially when children are involved, is an issue that is close to many people’s hearts, especially if they’re parents – we don’t want children to be exposed to anything that may have a negative effect on them.

TalkTalk has been one of the loudest voices calling for more protection to be given to children when they are online. Last year it launched HomeSafe, a new, ground-breaking security system designed to offer the maximum protection to customers. This service has just celebrated its first birthday with over 350,000 people signed up and using it to protect themselves and their kids online every day. Since March 2012 it has been offering customers the option of turning on parental controls when they sign up to the company’s broadband, the only internet service provider to do so. One in three customers have chosen to do so, and 60% of those have said that they probably wouldn’t have done if they hadn’t been asked. This shows that offering people the choice works, and has been the main reason for the service’s successful first year.

The fact that the issue of online security has been brought up by the government hasn’t hurt either – in fact, the Prime Minister has announced plans to hold a formal consultation into the issue. This continued focus at the highest level, coupled with TalkTalk’s aim to reach a million HomeSafe customers, means that the service’s second year looks set to be even more exciting than its first.

Ofcom goes about its business silently and efficiently, like a great white television-regulating shark – you never hear about them until they’ve started investigating you, and by then it’s too late. Never shy to let broadcasters know what they think, they’re the first place to turn to when you need to complain about what your eyes and ears have been subjected to.

What happens when an uncut Eminem song gets played on a TV programme’s soundtrack or graphic footage of a coat hanger abortion pops up on your screen before the 9pm watershed? You probably don’t really need to do anything as thousands of middle-class families will be venting their outrage over Ofcom’s phonelines as soon as they appear, but if you feel strongly about it then there’s no harm in adding your voice to the cacophony – if nothing else, you’ll bump the number of complaints up for the Daily Mail to quote when it gets its teeth into the story.

The way the watchdog works is to investigate every complaint it gets to see if the programme and/or broadcaster is in breach of the Broadcasting Code. These are the rules under which the watershed system, among other things, is enforced. If the watchdog then believes that the Code has been breached, an investigation will be started, and the people involved (as well as the broadcaster as a whole) may be punished in ever more mysterious and grisly ways. Or they might just be fined or suspended for a while. That’ll make them consider the outcomes of their actions.

Although they probably don’t have to, many companies offer their existing customers deals to help keep them happy, and offer potential new customers deals to help entice them in. Zen Internet has traditionally had a good relationship with its customers, existing or new, and its recently-announced deal is sure to improve that relationship.

Given the economic situation, many businesses are offering reduced deals to customers so that they don’t have to pay as much for important services like broadband, and the company’s new deal reflects that attitude. It has announced that it is slashing the price charged for the installation of its fibre-optic broadband by 25%, a significant saving in today’s market. Because it believes that it has the strongest broadband available, it wants more people to be able to take advantage of it, hence the price slash which should help those sitting on the fence to make their minds up about it. It has also reduced the prices of its Fibre Active products, which vary depending on the product.

In addition, the company has declared that it is doubling the maximum speeds of its broadband, to up to 76Mb for downloads and of up to 19Mb for uploads – the only deal that will not be getting a speed upgrade is the entry-level one. The changes will be brought in from 9^th May, and promise to give customers even more bang for their buck.