UK broadband needs to improve its quality and speeds – Broadband Research
The UK broadband providers are lagging behind their counter-parts in other broadband developed nations like Japan, South Korea, Sweden and Netherlands in terms of broadband speeds, according to the research conducted by the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
Some of the online activities like streaming & downloading videos, file sharing require faster speeds, however, the [...]
Virgin Media is to launch trials with new traffic management policies
The cable broadband provider, Virgin Media is to bring further changes in its traffic management polices that will affect the customers of its three broadband products – broadband M, broadband L and broadband XL. The earlier traffic management policy announced by Virgin Media was taking into account just the downloads made during the peak hours, [...]
O2 gives apology for low mobile broadband speeds
O2 broadband provider has clarified in a statement released recently that its mobile broadband customers could get speeds up to 1.3 Mbps depending on the mobile devices used. What we perceive from its statement that most of O2 mobile broadband users are getting speeds well above 384 Kbps even with devices use mobile technologies other [...]
EU suggests single broadband market for better growth
Broadband uptake is one of indicators that show how a nation makes progress in modern telecommunication technologies. In UK, more than sixty percent of the population have their own broadband connection, showing a manifold growth in broadband penetration since 2005. With growing expansion of LLU network, cheap broadband prices and the availability of variety of [...]
Broadband provider Fast4 apologises
Broadband provider Fast4 has apologised to its customers for the recent fall in surfing pace in the middle of jamming troubles. Steve Kaye, the chief executive officer of Fast4 broadband provider mentioned that the congestion problems were caused for the reason that the firm’s comprehensive supplier has reached a congestion limit on one of its [...]
