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Virgin Media Comes Top in 2016 Home Broadband ISP Survey

10th February, 2016 (8 Comments)

The latest annual UK Home Broadband Genie 2015 survey has announced that Virgin Media came out top as the overall “Best Broadband Provider“, although Sky Broadband and PlusNet also managed to pick up a few awards in different categories. Sadly TalkTalk often found itself at the bottom of the pack.

EE UK Delivers the Fastest Mobile Broadband at London’s Airports

29th January, 2016 (1 Comment)

Perhaps unsurprisingly EE has once again been shown to deliver the fastest Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) Internet speeds at all three of London’s main airports – Gatwick (LGW), Heathrow (LHR) and London City (LCY).

uSwitch’s 2016 Broadband Awards Praise Virgin Media and PlusNet

29th January, 2016 (4 Comments)

The annual uSwitch.com Broadband Awards 2015 were held last night and suffice to say that two ISPs dominated the evening more than most, Virgin Media and Plusnet. Both providers managed to sweep a bunch of gongs in different categories, although Virgin clearly picked up the most.

ASUS Ranked Top for Customer Satisfaction of Wireless Routers

21st January, 2016 (12 Comments)

Question, who makes the best wireless broadband routers for managing your home Internet connection? According to a recent J.D. Power survey of customer satisfaction the answer is ASUS, which gained top marks (838 on a 1,000 point scale). The lowest rated was Netgear.

Sky Broadband and Virgin Media Come Top in Ofcom Satisfaction Study

15th January, 2016 (15 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulatory has today published a new study of consumer satisfaction with fixed line broadband, phone, pay TV and mobile providers, which surveyed thousands of consumers between July and September 2015 to reveal that Sky Broadband is the highest rated of all the big ISPs.

The Co-operative Phone and Broadband Wins Social Enterprise Award

7th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

The Chipping Norton-based Co-operative Phone and Broadband (The Phone Co-op) ISP has won the “Best Consumer Facing Social Enterprise” accolade at the annual UK Social Enterprise Awards, which were actually held at the end of last year (we have been a bit slow to notice).

The Best UK Home Broadband ISPs for 2016 – ISPreview.co.uk Picks

4th January, 2016 (24 Comments)

What’s more important, service quality or price? If only it were that simple. Choosing the right broadband ISP is never easy, not least because service performance and cost can vary due to a variety of often very muddy factors, but hopefully our annual editors pick might help to simplify the options.

Netflix’s 2014 vs 2015 UK Broadband Speed Index Sees Virgin Media Top

31st December, 2015 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media continues to hold the top spot in Netflix’s latest UK ISP Speed Index, which measures the popular Internet Movie and TV service’s video streaming performance on different broadband providers; but it doesn’t mean much.

The 2015 Worst UK Home Broadband ISPs for Advertising Complaints

29th December, 2015 (2 Comments)

Some broadband ISPs are worse than others when it comes to “misleading” promotions of their services. So, as we prepare to bid farewell to another year, ISPreview.co.uk takes a quick look back over the past 12 months to see which providers suffered the most bans for bad advertising.

The 2015 vs 2014 Top UK Fastest Home Broadband and Mobile ISPs

27th December, 2015 (13 Comments)

We take a quick look back over the past year to see how much the national UK fixed line Home Broadband and Mobile providers have improved in terms of Internet connection speed. Unsurprisingly Virgin Media and EE Mobile remain top of their respective categories, but that’s only part of the picture.

Ofcom Name the Worst UK Mobile, Phone and Broadband ISPs – Q3 2015

15th December, 2015 (7 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today published their latest Q3 2015 complaints report, which reveals the volume of gripes received for all of the United Kingdom’s largest broadband, phone, mobile and TV providers. As usual EE takes a beating, while Sky Broadband and Virgin Media win praise.

ISPA UK Begins Hunt for the 2016 Best Broadband ISPs

2nd December, 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association UK (ISPA) has once again started their hunt for next year’s Internet industry award finalists and as such they’re now seeking nominations for a string of familiar categories (e.g. Best Superfast Broadband) and some new ones (Best CPE Hardware [Routers etc.]).

Major Security Holes Found at the Big Six UK Home Broadband ISPs

2nd December, 2015 (2 Comments)

A new report from security consultant Paul Moore has revealed that many of the United Kingdom’s major broadband ISPs, including BT, PlusNet, EE, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk, have significant vulnerabilities in their systems that could be exploited by hackers. But some, such as EE and TalkTalk, did far worse than others.

The UK Fastest 3G and 4G Mobile Broadband Operators in Major Cities

20th November, 2015 (5 Comments)

RootMetrics have today published their latest H2 2015 report into the Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) performance of EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2 across nine of the United Kingdom’s primary cities, which reveals that EE is still the fastest overall provider.. but not in all of the cities.

UK ISP Plusnet Comes Top in Cable’s New Broadband Awards 2015

17th November, 2015 (7 Comments)

Comparison site Cable.co.uk has announced the winners of their inaugural Broadband Awards 2015, which saw Plusnet grab more wins across different categories than any other ISP. But there were also some wins in different areas for Virgin Media, Sky Broadband, Zen Internet and a few other providers.

NextGen Digital Challenge Awards 2015 Names Best Altnet Broadband ISPs

9th November, 2015 (0 Comments)

The NextGen Conference in London has unveiled the winners of their 5th annual Digital Challenge Awards, which are designed to celebrate projects from across the United Kingdom that offer great examples of digital progress. This year saw a number of altnet ISPs win awards for their efforts to improve broadband connectivity.

Giffgaff Win Best Mobile Provider for Customer Service, Vodafone Worst

17th October, 2015 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator Giffgaff has been named as the best UK mobile network operator for customer service, with only 5% of respondents to a new survey rating them as “poor”. Unfortunately the bottom spots were occupied by Vodafone and EE.