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BT forced to cut rural broadband wholesale rates

...financial plans. The wholesale price controls only affect BT's up-to-8Mbps ADSL products, not its up-to-24Mbps ADSL2+ products or faster fibre... Read more

20 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Watchdog: TalkTalk's broadband speed test misled users

...was told by the speed checker that his estimated speed was 3.8Mbps, with an estimated range between 2.1-5.3Mbps. However, the customer... Read more

16 May, 2012
Hands on with London's first 4G service

Hands on with London's first 4G service

...around 48Mbps. By comparison, the 3G-connected laptop returned results of between 8Mbps and 10Mbps. The subscription price for the 3.5GHz TD-LTE service... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Ben Woods

Hyperoptic offers Londoners 1Gbps fibre broadband

...file would take one hour and 38 minutes to download at 6.8Mbps, the UK's average broadband speed, according to Ofcom. Building-wide deployment... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer
Zoho Business

Zoho Business

...level folder controls and document versioning supported as standard. Accessed over an 8Mbps broadband connection, the Zoho applications were quick to load and reasonably responsive... Read more

8 September, 2010 by Alan Stevens

BT chooses Oxfordshire village for 'fibre-only' trial

...40Mbps and 300Mbps — more than 30 times faster than the 6 to 8Mbps the villagers get from their current copper-only connections, according to BT... Read more

29 March, 2012 by Ben Woods

Scotland aims for five-fold speed boost by 2015

...average internet connection speed will increase by 2015 from the current 6.8Mbps average to between 40-80Mbps, the speeds offered by fibre-to-the... Read more

1 February, 2012 by David Meyer

BT will offer 300Mbps broadband in 2012

...testing a 1Gbps fibre service." The current average downstream speed is 6.8Mbps, and many users complain of getting much lower speeds. ADSL broadband rates... Read more

12 December, 2011

UK lags in European broadband stakes

...8.9Mbps, Hong Kong at 10.3Mbps and South Korea with 13.8Mbps. "I think, by and large, we have seen the trend heading in... Read more

24 October, 2011
iPhone 4S: a first look

iPhone 4S: a first look

Apple's iPhone 4S is official. It's not dramatically different from the iPhone 4, but the 4S features a faster processor, better graphics performance and other improvements. Read more

5 October, 2011 by Bonnie Cha and Kent German

Broadband map of Europe needs volunteers

...which it found that the average download speed had risen to 6.8Mbps. Volunteers for the pan-European project, who can sign up via SamKnows... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

South Yorkshire broadband scheme faces sell-off

...has said. In July, the average UK broadband speed was around 6.8Mbps, according to Ofcom. Hopes that the South Yorkshire scheme might pick up... Read more

20 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

England and Scotland land £363m broadband windfall

...risen by around 10 percent over the preceding six months — to 6.8Mbps — but that there is an increasing gap between what companies promise and... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Ben Woods

BT's copper broadband upgrade now hitting 2.5 million extra homes and businesses

...upgrade area once the upgrade has taken place, with its 'up to 8Mbps' IPstream product scheduled for retirement by spring 2014. Customers will be migrated... Read more

1 August, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Gap between broadband you get vs broadband ISPs promise set to shrink

...download speed being received by broadband users in May 2011 was 6.8Mbps, according to Ofcom, while the headline 'up to' speed advertised by ISPs... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

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