Tag: Broadband Genie
Gloucester tops UK Broadband Reliability survey, Belfast is bottom
Gloucester has emerged as the UK’s most reliable city for broadband, with only 8% of residents experiencing outages in the past year, according to a survey by Broadband Genie. In […]
Slowest broadband streets in UK revealed in new survey
Greenfields Road in Bishop Auckland is the UK’s slowest street The County Durham road came bottom with average broadband speeds of 0.35Mb – 2,634 times slower than Tynemouth Street, London, […]
Canterbury fails: Kent city is UK’s worst for broadband again
Canterbury has won the wooden spoon for the UK’s slowest city for broadband for the second consecutive year in Broadband Genie’s Slickest Cities index Lichfield has the crown of UK’s […]
How to beat inflation-busting broadband price rises
Annual broadband price rises will hit households from next week, with some facing more than £100 per year added to their bills Customers who are reaching the end of an […]
Brillband voted fastest broadband provider 2024 at Broadband Genie Awards
Customers of the challenger broadband provider, Brillband, receive the fastest average speeds in the UK. Brillband has been crowned this year’s Fastest Broadband Provider in the annual Broadband Genie Awards, […]
3 in 4 pensioners unaware of broadband social tariffs, claims study
Over three-quarters of pensioners (78%) are still not aware of broadband social tariffs despite millions potentially being eligible for cheaper deals Two-fifths of pensioners (41%) now say they rely on […]
Broadband customers £53 million worse off following regulations, report claims
New broadband advertising rules are putting over a third of customers (38%) off switching their broadband, costing UK billpayers almost £53 million in savings These rules were introduced by […]
3 in 4 pensioners don’t believe TV licence fee is worth the money
Three-quarters of pensioners (76%) don’t think that the TV licence payment offers good value for money, according to new research by Broadband Genie Three-fifths (61%) people aged over 75 are […]
Canterbury is worst UK city for broadband speeds, claims report
Historic Canterbury has won the wooden spoon for the city with the most sluggish internet in the first annual Broadband Genie Speed Index Analysis of more than 250,000 speed tests […]
Latest home broadband speed increases to 69 Mb/s, claims Ofcom report
Telecoms regulator Ofcom has published its latest research into the performance of home broadband services in the UK. Its findings are obtained by measuring the performance delivered to customers’ routers, […]
