Category: thinkbroadband

The results of our latest poll in and it seems that most of those taking part said that their broadband/telephone and mobile costs added up to around £20 to £40 per month.

The last few days have seen a good number of our listings update, so we thought it worth highlighting this.

The Internet survived the iOS 7 updates, though twitter suggested lots of unhappy people waiting for downloads to complete or problems installing the update. Our BQM tool shows that for some people the rise in traffic was of no consequence.

Our factsheet that we publish each quarter has been published in the last few days, so spend a few minutes catching up on the major figures and changes of the last quarter.

Ofcom may have published an average speed for the UK this week, but with access to a much wider source of providers, we have crunched the figures to show what speeds people are getting across the various regions of the UK.

Our recent poll on how much importance visitors to thinkbroadband place on broadband when moving home is now available, with a whopping 77% rating availability and speed of broadband very important.

Our latest factsheet has been released and provides a handy summary of what has been going on in the broadband world for the last few months.

The announcement of the BT Sport packages may not have caused the same Internet usage blip as the recent Xbox One announcement, but for sports fans it is still an important change in the landscape for watching sport TV.

A theme that pops up regularly is people asking whether they have to pay voice line rental so they can have a DSL based service, currently in the UK line rental needs to be paid to get an ADSL2+ or VDSL2 service.

Our polls sometimes through out interesting results, and with Ofcom now looking at the TalkTalk complaint over fibre pricing it is with interest we see that 51.7% of those taking part in the poll think Ofcom should regulate the retail price of BT Infinity.