Salisbury becomes the first ultra-fast broadband city in Britain with ‘Fibre-to-the-Premises’ technology available to 20,000 households By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 Salisbury today became the first city in the UK to have universal access to ultra-fast fibre broadband. Openreach, the … Read more
World record breaking broadband speeds have been recorded in Australia by scientists, who say they could download 1,000 HD movies in under a second. The team from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities recorded a speed of 44.2 terabits per second – the first time speeds like that have been recorded ‘in the wild’. This is … Read more
How does YOUR broadband measure up? New map shows slowest services are in City of London and Wales while North Wiltshire boasts the best The City of London and Westminster has the slowest broadband speed in the UK The House of Commons published broadband speeds across each constituency Residents in the constituency have an average … Read more
Furious customers slam Virgin Media and Sky as hundreds of users across the country face broadband issues Around 700 customers of Sky and Virgin Media faced issues around 11.20am Down Detector says hundreds of customers are still facing issues this afternoon It comes after Virgin Media customers faced 18 hours of disruption this week By James … Read more
Breaking: Hundreds of furious customers slam Virgin Media and Sky as broadband goes down across the country Around 700 customers of Sky and Virgin Media faced issues around 11.20am Down Detector says hundreds of customers are still facing issues this afternoon It comes after Virgin Media customers faced 18 hours of disruption this week By James … Read more
Virgin Media broadband users across the UK are reporting being unable to access the internet due to a nationwide outage. The problems started just before 5pm BST, according to data from website Downdetector, which monitors online outages. Over three quarters of those affected are reporting having problems with their wired internet connection. Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, … Read more
Virgin Media goes DOWN: Thousands of broadband users across the UK are unable to get online due to major outage Down Detector map shows outages in Birmingham, Glasgow, London The problems started just before 5pm BST leaving customers without internet Over three quarters of those affected reported problems with wired connection By Sophie Curtis For … Read more
Broadband switching in Britain surged by 30 per cent in March as lockdown restrictions came into force and the nation started working from home 30% surge in people switching internet provider from March 1 to March 31 Many people are opting for new plans that give them quicker speeds Comes during coronavirus lockdown with millions of adults … Read more
As more households rely on home broadband than ever before, there has been a surge in searches for problems related to the internet. Online searches for ‘slow internet’ and ‘slow broadband’ have seen an increase of 60 per cent, highlighting the number of users potentially suffering with sluggish speeds. The problem is likely to be … Read more
Sky is DOWN with hundreds of broadband customers working from home across the UK claiming they are unable to access the internet The first reports of issues with the Sky Broadband service came in from Cornwall Sky tweeted that it was investigating the issue reported by users in Cornwall More than 2,000 reports have been … Read more