UK Broadband Reviews

UK broadband provider , Orange has released a broadband survey that predicts greater population changes in UK cities and regions by 2015 due to increased broadband services and universal broadband access in UK, making the employees to move to their preferred locations. Digital Britain aims to provide minimum 2Mbps broadband service to everyone in UK by 2012. If UK successfully completes this project, there could be change in UK population map as people would move to lesser populated areas with broadband access, the study reports According to the findings, some major cities and regions will see their population become less dense. For instance, cities in East and West Midlands and parts of North like Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester which have high-speed internet access facilities will be less populated as 80 percent of residents could move to other regions like mountains or coasts. These regions would provide broadband access in five years from now. Broadband infrastructure will contin...

PlusNet broadband ISP recently released some important data on the speeds received by its customers who use the provider's existing BT 20CN network and the next generation high speed 21CN broadband network. The average speeds on 8Mb packages are around 4.4Mbps while the customers who are on ADSL 2+ broadband network get mean speed around 6.5Mbps. PlusNet received these speed data from BT Wholesale. The speeds used in making charts are thoroughput speeds or data rate speeds. They are usually lower than sync speeds or line rate. The line rate usually varies due to line quality and distance between the user and the exchange. PlusNet said its customers who live near to th exchanges received relatively higher speeds. It should be noted Ofcom and Samknows released their speed survey report that includes fixed line broadband providers networks. The report indicated that broadband customers in the UK get an average 4.1 Mbps for the advertised speeds of 8Mbps. Ofocm criticized UK broadban...