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Ofcom State 95.3% of UK Can Get Standard Broadband of At Least 2Mbps

16th May, 2013 - 1:17 pm (16 Comments)

The communications regulator has today published a new report that outlines the availability of different communications services across the United Kingdom. In particular it finds that “standard broadband” services (i.e. HEADLINE speeds of at least 2Mbps) are now available to 95.3% of households and superfast (30Mbps+) to 67.9% .

TalkTalk UK Grows to 4.063m Broadband Users and Preps LLU Expansion

16th May, 2013 - 8:20 am (0 Comments)

Budget internet and phone provider TalkTalk has published its latest Q1-2013 results, which saw them add another +10,000 broadband subscribers (unchanged from Q4-2012) to total 4,063,000 customers. The number of people taking their Superfast Fibre (FTTC) service also grew to 73,000 (+21k and broadly unchanged from Q4-2012).

Some 86% of the UK Population or 43.5 Million Adults Have Gone Online

15th May, 2013 - 10:16 am (0 Comments)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have today published their latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q1-2013, which reveals that the number of adults in the United Kingdom that have NEVER gone online has shrunk from 7.42 million (15%) in Q4-2012 to 7.1 million (14%) in the last quarter.

EE and Three UK Named Fastest Mobile Broadband Operators in Hull

14th May, 2013 - 3:34 pm (0 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband performance in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) has revealed that EE was the fastest mobile operator with an average download speed of 9.6Mbps and an upload of 5.5Mbps (Megabits per second). Three UK became the distant runner-up with O2 and Vodafone delivering the slowest performance.

Point Topic Post Goldmine of Data for UK Broadband Speeds and Coverage

14th May, 2013 - 2:32 pm (8 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today released a veritable treasure trove of useful information by making their full local authority broadband speeds and coverage database available to non-subscribers, which allows you to compare the quality of internet access in your area with the rest of the United Kingdom.

UK Internet Users Reluctant to Recommend their Broadband ISP

13th May, 2013 - 8:20 am (1 Comment)

Less than half (47.6%) of the 779 respondents to our latest monthly reader poll have said that they’d definitely recommend their broadband ISP to others and 26.9% felt that the service they received was still too expensive, which is despite the UK being home to some of the most affordable broadband services in the world.

ISP BT Tops 6.7 Million UK Broadband Subscribers as 1.3m Users Take FTTC

10th May, 2013 - 8:06 am (26 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has today posted their latest financial results to 31st March 2013 (Q1-2013), which revealed that the operators retail ISP division had increased its fixed line broadband subscribers by +136,000 in the quarter to total 6,704,000 (up from the +122k added in Q4-2012 and +88k in Q3-2012).

Global Residential Broadband Prices Continue to Fall During Q1 2013

8th May, 2013 - 3:04 pm (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has reported that global prices for residential broadband ISP services and bundles are continuing to fall. The United Kingdom also remains one of the cheapest country’s in the world. Follow the link to see how we compare.

SKY Sale Triggers Exodus of O2 UK Home Broadband Subscribers

8th May, 2013 - 10:10 am (3 Comments)

The latest quarterly results from O2 UK (BE Broadband) appear to suggest that the ISPs fixed line home broadband customers have been climbing over themselves to escape the forthcoming migration to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) as subscriber figures fell by a staggering -40,700 in Q1-2013 to total 519,400.

UPDATE Ofcom Reveals UK Broadband Connections Rise to 21.7 Million

7th May, 2013 - 2:05 pm (1 Comment)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest Telecoms Market Data Tables Q4 2012 update and confirmed that the United Kingdom is now home to 22,174,000 21,680,000 fixed line broadband ISP connections (excluding corporate lines), which is up sharply by +659,000 +356,00 in the quarter.

UK Superfast Broadband Take-Up Expected to Skyrocket by 2020

7th May, 2013 - 9:52 am (20 Comments)

A leaked TalkTalk commissioned report from German analyst Wik Consult has predicted that take-up of superfast broadband (FTTC / P) services on BT’s (Openreach) platform will reach a “maximum” of 65% of addressable customers by 2019 and Virgin Media will hit 100% in 2017. But are BT’s prices anti-competitive?

The Top 8 UK Fastest Fixed Line Home Broadband ISPs for April 2013

3rd May, 2013 - 1:42 am (7 Comments)

The latest monthly Broadband.co.uk survey of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data for April 2013 has reported that the average download speed in the United Kingdom increased slightly from 18.831Mbps in March to 19.014Mbps now. The average upload speed also hit 3.068Mbps (up from 2.945Mbps).

ISP Sky Broadband UK Grows to 4.39 Million Subscribers

2nd May, 2013 - 8:33 am (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today published their latest financial results to 31st March 2013 (Q1-2013), which reported another quarterly increase of +152,000 in their fixed line broadband ISP subscriber base to total 4,387,000 customers (up sharply from the +132k added in Q4-2012 and +102k in Q3-2012).

Virgin Media UK Grows to Reach 4.49 Million Cable Broadband Users

24th April, 2013 - 8:46 am (2 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media UK, which is currently in the process of being sold to Liberty Global (LGi) for an enterprise value of approximately £15bn, has reported its latest Q1-2013 financial results which saw their total broadband subscriber base grow by +25,500 in the quarter (down from +51.6k in Q4-2012) to total 4,490,500.