Tag: broadband
Glasgow is UK’s most unequal city for broadband, claims report
Glasgow, pictured above, is UK's most unequal broadband city Glasgow is the UK’s most unequal city for broadband connections – with its fastest area 866 times the speed of its slowest, according to an analysis of 16,500 consumer speed tests by Uswitch.com, the comparison and switching service. The highest average download…
Concerns about speed putting consumers off broadband social tariffs
Concerns about broadband speed are putting eligible households off signing up for discounted broadband deals, research from Which? has shown. It surveyed more than 2,000 people eligible for fixed broadband social tariffs to uncover the barriers to signing up. Worryingly, four in 10 of those surveyed who are eligible for and aware of social tariffs…
4 in 5 blast mid-contract mobile and broadband price rises
Four in five consumers say mid-contract mobile and broadband price rises are unfair, as 25 million mobile users and 10 million households on broadband deals face hikes next spring, according to new research from Uswitch.com. The majority of mobile and broadband providers link their annual price rises to inflation rates, measured by the Consumer Price…
1 in 3 Brits have never changed broadband provider
Over a third of Brits (36%) admit they’ve never switched broadband provider missing out on potential savings of £162 a year Over two-fifths of adults aged 45 and over admit they’ve never switched providers, with one in 10 seeing an increase of up to £15 per month in the last year Almost half of men…
Uswitch reveals best connected regions for broadband providers, internet speed
Broadband experts at Uswitch.com have discovered whether having more options for broadband providers available per region means better internet speeds for households. The amount of available broadband providers per region varies widely. Most people will be aware of the big names such as BT, Sky, Virgin Media and Plusnet for example, but there are many smaller…
5G report: 1 in 3 Brits own 5G handset, but 1 in 6 think tech is ‘overhyped’
While a third of Brits (32%) now own a 5G handset, one in six mobile users (16%) users feel the technology is overhyped Less than half of 5G users (41%) say they have experienced improvements in speed or reliability And yet a quarter (23%) of consumers are planning to buy or upgrade to a 5G…
Broadband speeds increase 20% as nine in 10 homes take superfast packages
Image: Ofcom As the availability of future-proof, full-fibre technology improves, and more people upgrade their connections, average home broadband speeds are increasing. Ofcom’s Home Broadband Performance Report, published today, reveals that the median average speed of a home broadband connection has reached 59.4 Mbit/s. That’s an 18% increase from 50.4 Mbit/s the…
Rural Northumberland to get ‘Gigabit Broadband’
UK Government awards £7.3 million contract to upgrade broadband for more than 3,750 hard-to-reach North Northumberland premises GoFibre to build gigabit-capable connections more than twenty times faster than ‘superfast’ Made possible via Project Gigabit, the government’s £5 billion plan to boost broadband across the UK More than 3,750 rural premises in North Northumberland will…
Shell Energy generated highest level of broadband complaints, says Ofcom
Shell Energy continues to generate the most broadband and landline complaints, according to the latest data published by Ofcom. While overall complaint volumes during this quarter were broadly in line with the previous three months, the number of complaints received about Shell Energy are three times higher than the industry average. Meanwhile, Sky continues to…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Nearly 1 million Brits have cancelled streaming services this year
Almost 1m British households have given up on the streaming revolution so far this year, as the cost of living crisis forces increasingly budget-conscious consumers to stop taking services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+. The premiere of two of the most-hyped and expensive shows of all time – the $650m (£580m) productions of Rings of…
