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Mobile Broadband Speed Doubled By Virgin Media

Admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:36:16 +0000

Virgin Media has released a new mobile broadband which they say will double the speed of the mobile broadband previously offered. The new USB modem will offer speeds of 7.2Mbps on a range of contracts. Mobile broadband is becoming more and more popular for people on the go. If you are not near a wireless [...]

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Finding the Best Broadband Deals

Admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:20:17 +0000

How many hours do you spend online? Broadband providers offer deals based on your usage so to get the best deal, you shouldn’t buy more than you need. Some packages offer ‘unlimited downloads’ but if you don’t surf that much, then it might be cheaper to get a capped deal. If you download a lot [...]

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BT Offers Speeds of up to 20Mbps at no Extra Cost

Admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:42:06 +0000

Millions of BT broadband customers will be offerered broadband speeds of up to 20Mbs at no extra cost. The cheapest BT broadband deal is currently £7.78 per month for the first 3 months. Customers in enabled areas currently enjoying download speeds of up to 8 Mbps will find their broadbands speeds increasing to up to 20 [...]

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Virgin Promises Not to Exaggerate Broadband Speeds

Admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:00:16 +0000

Virgin Media has pledged not to advertise broadband connection speeds that it’s customers cannot acheive. Virgin is making an effort to be honest with users about the broadband speeds that it can offer and they are setting up a new marketing campaign promising that users will receive the actual speeds that they advertise. This is now being referred [...]

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Fastest Broadband Speeds are in Northern Ireland

Admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:26:59 +0000

According to Ofcom Northern Ireland has the fastest boradband speeds in the UK for anyone subscribing to an ‘ up uo 8 Mbps braodband package. Ofcom found that a larger proportion of consumers in Northern Ireland are on ‘up to 8Mbps’ deals than in the rest of the UK although the average speed was actually 4.1Mbps compared to [...]

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Mobile Broadband Speeds to be Investigated

Admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:17:31 +0000

Ofcom has pledged to investigate the mobile broadband market to find out why there are so many gaps in 3G ( third generation) coverage, particularly in rural areas. These areas are known as’ notspots’. Ofcom will also look at mobile broadband speeds which vary considerably. 3G services allow people to connect to the Internet via a wireless network using either [...]

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Superfast Broadband Speeds for Homes in Sheffield

Admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:41:17 +0000

H20 Networks have begun work in Sheffield to bring broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps to Sheffield homes. The city-wide fibre optic network will run via the city’s sewers and will be laid in a 15Km ring around the city building on an existing network that serves flats and student accommodation. H20 have already introduced similar schemes in [...]

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Virgin Media Relaxes Broadband Speed Throttling Policy

Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:27:26 +0000

With Virgin media topping the broadband speed test charts and offereing the UK’s fastest broadband, you’d think their priority might be advertising this fact and getting new customers onboard. It seems though that the company is focassing first on fine tuning its policies to cope with the extra demand for its services, which involves restricting [...]

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Virgin Media leads in broadband speed test results

Admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:01:43 +0000

Research by independent analysts show that Virgin Media is topping the tables in UK broadband speed tests. The average speed of 6.14Mbps is almost 2Mbps faster than the UK average of 4.3Mbps. The findings were calculated using thousands of broadband speed test results nationwide, over the month of June 2009. O2 and Be broadband were [...]

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BT Offers Faster Broadband Speed at No Extra Cost

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:05:12 +0000

BT will upgrade its Broadband speed to 20 Mbps for millions of its home and business users at no extra cost. Uploads will be up to 1Mbps Existing customers will need to sign a new contract with BT to obtain the boost although the speed will depend on the state of their line and the [...]

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