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The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast

Posted by kdawson on from the but-you-have-actual-competition dept.

Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."

2 of 279 comments (clear)

  1. Fast enough... by F34nor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for a FP?

  2. Re:I've tried wrangling with BT over this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's you're motherfucker.