ISLANDERS can look forward to a price war when fast internet broadband connections become available later in the year as three companies will be competing for business.

Earlier this week Jersey Telecom announced that it would be making faster internet connection speeds available from August. It said that the fastest packages would enable connectivity at up to eight megabytes a second – four times the maximum currently available.

For the first time in Jersey, Cable & Wireless has decided to join the battle for the fast broadband market through its Sure brand. Sure chief executive Graham Hughes has promised ‘the same aggressive pricing’ approach toward broadband services that he said the company adopts in the mobile market. Sure will also be looking to offer mobile and broadband deals to attract more customers.

Newtel Solutions also provides broadband to the Jersey market and said it would be fighting for customers when the faster speeds were made available. Newtel’s head of marketing, Trevor Le Sueur, said: ‘We will be supplying the new eight-megabytes-a-second connections and our customers will not be disappointed. We will be very competitively priced.’