Ofcom has recently offered financial reassurances to companies such as BT and Virgin Media if they choose to invest in setting up high-speed fibre optic networks across the UK. If the companies carried out the works, it would bring the country much closer to the next generation of super fast broadband speeds. At the moment, UK broadband runs on a slow copper wire network. However, as o...

Recent quarterly broadband speed tests, carried out for the first time by moneysupermarket.com, have revealed disappointing results for most UK broadband users. Moneysupermarket.com tested 16 ISPs (Internet Service Providers) across the country, and discovered that top of the list was O2. Users of the 8Mbps deal received ave...

You might not have heard of them but according to a recent consumer poll at Which? magazine, Zen are the UK’s best broadband ISP. The survey prides itself on being totally voted by the consumer and therefore the big money-flashing companies can’t push for pole position. Last year saw the up-market supermarket Waitrose take the top spot but this year they have slipped one place to second and th...

When was the last time you bought a CD from a record shop? It’s a long time ago for some of us. But then the music industry has never been in a better position in terms of audience reach and you only have to look at the number of people wearing earphones on public transport to see evidence. The answer, of course, lies in illegal file sharing and downloading, peer to peer. It’s the internet equ...

After recent OFCOM research highlighted the growth of broadband access across rural Britain, a new piece of research has come out which states that rural broadband users experience much slower download speeds than their city counterparts. UK analyst thinkbroadband.com has revealed the results of a large nationwide broadband te...