Tag: broadband
Over 3 million broadband customers pay £251 million more than they should
Almost three million broadband customers whose deal expired in the past 12 months say they did not receive an End-of-Contract Notification (ECN) — potentially costing them up to £251 million […]
Greater broadband competition needed to improve service, claims survey
The majority (81%) of UK households use four broadband providers to connect their home Nearly four in five (78%) households have not switched provider in past year, despite increased internet […]
Full-fibre broadband targets will be missed, claims spending watchdog
Boris Johnson’s promise to deliver full-fibre broadband by 2025 will be missed because of a catalogue of government failures, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded. In a damning report published today, […]
Online providers respond to national lockdown with price hikes
Broadband providers and online streaming services, such as Netflix, are responding to a national lockdown across the UK by putting their prices up and taking advantage of a captive market. […]
Broadband use doubles in 2020, claims Openreach
Broadband use in the UK more than doubled in 2020 as millions of people worked, socialised and studied from home, according to new figures from Openreach. The broadband […]
Consumers download extra 2.8GB of data per day in 2020
In 2020, the nation consumed a record-breaking amount of data, tuned into more TV, and spent longer on the phone, based on analysis of more than six million Virgin Media […]
Virgin Media switches on Wales’ fast home broadband
Thousands of homes in Cardiff and across South Wales can now benefit from Wales’ fastest home broadband offering average speeds of 1,140Mbps – 18 times faster than the average connection […]
Slowest broadband streets in UK revealed
Queens Road in Weybridge, Surrey, is crowned the UK’s slowest street for broadband — with average download speeds of 0.12Mbps This is 5,330 times slower than Dale Lane in Appleton, […]
1 in 3 homes experience download speeds less than 2Mbps
Mobile network benchmarking firm Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) has released the results of its latest major study into home internet connections, revealing vastly differing download speeds across the UK. […]
Gigabit broadband could be worth £11bn a year, claims report
To coincide with switching on 3 million homes in London and Northern Ireland with gigabit broadband, new analysis from Virgin Media has revealed that the high-speed cable could unlock an […]
