Category: thinkbroadband

We first ran a poll looking at USC speeds four years ago, and as yet none of the policy makers appear to have paid heed, with the 2 Mbps USC still being the only broadband speed improvement planned for up to 10% of the country.

Our latest poll results are in and show that people are split on what is the single most important factor when it comes to broadband changes in the UK.

Our latest survey while showing that while some 96% of those with a games console have it connected to their broadband connection, something like half of people are wary of any requirements for the console to be online to play single player content.

The results from our 'up to' poll are interesting, and suggest there is a market for services that offer some form of speed guarantee to consumers.

Our broadband factsheet for the fourth quarter of 2012 has been published, along with a projection of how fast we believe broadband will be in 2015.

With the new goal announced by the previous Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the UK at last had something good to aim for, the cabinet reshuffle has now thrown this goal into doubt, and even before today the public was very worried that the BDUK could not deliver.

We ran a poll in May 2012 that asked our visitors about the difference between peak and off-peak speeds, we have now published the results.

We have released a new version of our Android speed tester, which has been on holiday for a few months.

Do you, or someone you know suffer with problems, where the service is advertised as up to X Mbps, but you only ever get a fraction of X as your speed? Then we would like to hear from you.

We recently asked visitors to our site to vote for what speed should be guaranteed as part of the Universal Service Commitment, and a massive 94% voted for a speed in excess of the 2 Meg target.