{"id":9343,"date":"2015-06-29T02:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2015-06-29T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T06:08:56","slug":"the-q2-2015-top-7-uk-fastest-national-home-broadband-and-mobile-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/the-q2-2015-top-7-uk-fastest-national-home-broadband-and-mobile-isps.html","title":{"rendered":"The Q2-2015 Top 7 UK Fastest National Home Broadband and Mobile ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second quarter has seen the average Internet download speed for the largest seven national home broadband ISPs\u00a0increase from 24.72Mbps in Q1 to 25.47Mbps now, while the average for the primary Mobile Broadband operators reached 15.99Mbps (up from 14.42Mbps in Q1). Virgin Media<\/a> remains the fastest fixed line provider and EE<\/a> dominates mobile.<\/p>\n

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As usual it’s worth mentioning that some of the fastest fixed line broadband ISPs tend to perform better because they have a higher\u00a0proportion of subscribers taking “superfast broadband<\/em>” (e.g. FTTC<\/a>, Cable, FTTH<\/a>\/P etc.) connections.<\/p>\n

For example, it’s little wonder that Virgin are the top performer (average download of 57.17Mbps)\u00a0for the big boys because their entry-level package is\u00a050Mbps (this is also their most popular option), while many other providers remain hobbled by\u00a0an older and slower base of less reliable ‘up to’ 20Mbps ADSL2+ lines.<\/p>\n

Otherwise\u00a0not much has changed since Q1, outside of the on-going spread of “superfast<\/em>” (24Mbps+) connectivity to reach 95% of premises by 2017 through the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> scheme with BT<\/a> (here<\/a>). More recently Virgin has also committed to expand their cable network to around 60% of the UK by 2020 (here<\/a>), although the deployment has only just begun.<\/p>\n