Green Broadband: carbon neutral broadband providers

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More and more companies are making an effort to become carbon neutral - by offsetting carbon emissions, and taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint and those of their employees.

And now broadband and TV companies are starting to do the same thing. So if you want to make sure that the broadband services you take have the least impact on the environment, check out the carbon neutral broadband providers below.

Carbon neutral home & business broadband providers

Sky Digital, Eclipse Residential Broadband, Eclipse Business Broadband and Eclipse SDSL are carbon neutral broadband businesses.

Sky Digital - TV, Broadband & Talk

BSkyB announced in 2007 that it had achieved carbon neutral status. Sky is using 100% renewable energy at its sites in England and Wales alongside combined heat and power in Scotland.

Sky offer Sky TV, Broadband and Talk. To sign up for Sky Broadband you need to become - or already be - a Sky TV customer. Sky broadband comes with a free wireless router. And sign up online for Sky TV and get a £15 credit. Sky Broadband packages are:

Sky Broadband Base: FREE broadband, up to 2Mb, 2GB usage allowance
Sky Broadband Mid: £5 a month, up to 8Mbps, 40GB usage allowance
Sky Broadband Max: up to a superfast 16Mbps, unlimited usage allowance (fair use policy applies)

Suggest Sky TV, Broadband and Talk bundles include:

Sky See, Surf, Speak: £17 per month - includes 1 entertainment mix, Sky+, up to 2MB FREE broadband, Sky Talk Freetime
Sky See, Surf, Speak: £27 per month - includes 6 mixes, Sky+, up to 2MB FREE broadband, Sky Talk Unlimited
Sky See, Speak, Surf: £36 a month - includes Movies Mix, 4 entertainment mixes, FREE standard Sky Box, up to 2MB FREE broadband, Sky Talk Freetime
Sky See, Speak, Surf: £36 a month with Sky Sports - includes Variety Mix and Sky Sports Mix, or any one Entertainment Mix and one Premium Mix, up to 2MB FREE broadband, Sky Talk Freetime

Or create your own Sky combination.

Packages can be bought with the FREE standard Sky box, or Sky+ (which incurs higher one-off cost) or Sky HD (which incurs higher one-off cost and higher monthly cost).

Eclipse Internet - Residential Broadband

Eclipse Internet is also a carbon neutral company. Eclipse announced they were carbon neutral in May 2007. They won the ISPA Best Consumer Broadband Award in 2007.

All Eclipse broadband packages come with up to 24mbps download speeds and up to 1Mb upload speeds. There are different usage allowances for different Eclipse broadband packages.

Eclipse Broadband Lite £9.95 a month for 3 months then £13.95 per month on 12-month contract. 2GB monthly usage allowance.
Eclipse Broadband Select £17.95 a month on 12 month contract (1 & 12 month contracts available) 10GB monthly usage allowance.
Eclipse Broadband Pro £29.95 a month on 12 month contract (1 & 12 month contracts available) 50GB monthly usage allowance.

Eclipse Internet - business broadband and SDSL

With Eclipse business broadband there is no traffic shaping or port blocking. You can optimise your broadband - prioritise your email, web browsing or FTP.

All with an easy-to-use online control panel. All Eclipse business broadband packages have up to 24Mbps download speeds and up to 1Mb upload speeds. Set up is free on some packages - or if you switch to them with a MAC code set up is also free.

Eclipse Home Office - £14.95 per month. 3GB downloads per month. Standard router.
Eclipse Business 20 - £19.95 per month. 20GB downloads per month. Wireless router.
Eclipse Business 50 - £29.95 per month. 50GB downloads per month. Wireless router.
Eclipse Business Unlimited - £49.95 per month. Unlimited downloads per month (subject to fair use policy). Wireless router.

SDSL is a very robust data connection with the same upload speed as download speed. it runs on a separate data line. These Eclipse SDSL packages have unlimited usage allowances, with a maximum contention ratio of 10:1. There are three Eclipse SDSL packages for businesses:

Eclipse SDSL 500 - 512kbps upload & download broadband speed. £125 per month.

Eclipse SDSL 1000 - 1Mbps upload & download broadband speed. £190 per month.
Eclipse SDSL 2000 - 2Mbps upload & download broadband speed. £225 per month.

More carbon neutral broadband providers

We will add more green and carbon neutral ISPs and broadband providers as they announce theircarbon neutral status.

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