Tag: broadband
Virgin Media users get Marvel’s Avengers skins, beta access
All Virgin Media customers will be able to get timed exclusive Marvel’s Avengers skins They’re applicable to all six Marvel’s Avengers main characters and exclusive to Virgin Media in the UK Virgin Media customers will also be given early beta access this weekend (Friday 14 to Sunday 16) To apply for a beta code, visit Virgin Media’s website for…
Zoopla names Birmingham as best UK location for remote working
Birmingham (pictured) named as the UK's best place for remote working Birmingham is revealed as the UK’s best location for remote working, scoring 69.8 out of 100 in Zoopla’s analysis Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber, takes second spot scoring 65.2 out of 100 Bradford, West Yorkshire, is third with almost 20,000…
Broadband customers to save £270 million following Ofcom review
Broadband customers who are out of contract are set to benefit from a package of pricing changes and commitments from their providers, following a review by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The broadband market offers customers a wide range of choice, with different deals on offer to suit different needs. But Ofcom is concerned that many customers…
Londoners demand better broadband for home working
A majority of Londoners want to carry on working from home after lockdown ends - but only if they have better broadband, according to a survey commissioned by G.Network. The poll found that 59% of London residents would want to keep working from home at least some days of the week if their broadband was…
Virgin Media launches Gigabit broadband in Edinburgh and Liverpool
Virgin Media has switched on gigabit home broadband in a further two cities as part of its plan to bring gigabit speeds to more than 15 million homes across its entire network by the end of 2021. Edinburgh and Liverpool are the latest cities to benefit from the hyperfast service, and follow the launch of…
Brits spending quarter of day online, claims Ofcom
Ofcom data today finds that Brits are now spending more than a quarter of their days online with services such as Zoom seeing incredible growth. The broadband team at Uswitch has analysed Google search data for 20 apps between 1st April and 31st May to reveal the nations most-used online services contributing to this unprecedented growth reported…
Virgin Media reveals lockdown leap in broadband traffic
Virgin Media households have downloaded an extra 325GB on average during lockdown so far making use of their ultrafast speeds Customers now using enough extra data to watch 3.5 hours more Netflix and send tens of thousands of emails every single day Northern Irish customers are downloading the most and Scottish customers the least in…
O2 and Virgin Media merge to challenge BT dominance
O2 and Virgin Media are set to merge, creating one of the UK's largest entertainment and telecoms firms and a major rival to BT's broadband dominance. Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, and Spain's Telefonica, which owns O2, said they had agreed terms for joining forces. O2 is the UK's largest phone company with about…
Broadband use up from 32 to 41 hours per week during lockdown
Home broadband use has shot up to 41 hours a week as workers and schoolchildren stay home - a rise of almost a third (29%) since lockdown, according to new research from Uswitch.com, the comparison and switching service. The average household has eight devices that connect to the internet, including two smartphones, at least one laptop…
Switzerland has fastest internet speeds in the world
Switzerland has been revealed as the country with the fastest internet speeds in the world, with a fixed broadband speed of 146.81Mbps. The UK ranks in 26th place with a fixed average broadband speed of 65.82mbps - with an hour’s worth of Netflix content taking 2 minutes and 2 seconds to download. France, Sweden…
