Gap between advertised, actual broadband speeds growing

27 July 2010, 1:38 pm

Here's the good news for British Internet users: the average "actual fixed-line residential broadband speed" for most ISPs has jumped by an amazing 25 percent over the past year. That's according to the United Kingdom's telecom regulator Ofcom, which commissioned a tracking study on broadband rates conducted by the research company SamKnows. The speeds have leaped from 4.1Mbps to 5.2Mbps over ...... Read More »

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