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  2. Speedtest.net - Wikipedia

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    Internet speed test. License. Freeware. Website. www .speedtest .net. Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006 ...

  3. List of broadband providers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Subsidiary of the Octopus Group, with the brand licensed from Shell . Subsidiary of Comcast . TalkTalk started using CityFibre as a primary network provider for its business division in May 2023. [19] Subsidiary of Virgin Media O2 . Subsidiary of the Vodafone Group . Full-fibre broadband network operator in London.

  4. Internet in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    More than half of UK homes had broadband in 2007, with an average connection speed of 4.6 Mbit/s. Bundled communications deals mixing broadband, digital TV, mobile phone and landline phone access were adopted by forty per cent of UK households in the same year, up by a third over the previous year. This high level of service is considered the ...

  5. List of sovereign states by Internet connection speeds

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    This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2] Country/Territory Median

  6. What is broadband? - AOL Help

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    Broadband. A dial-up service connects to the internet through a phone line with a maximum speed of 56 kbps. Broadband refers to a connection that transmits a large amount of data at a high speed. A connection having a download speed of 256 kbps or faster is currently classified as broadband. You cannot make and receive phone calls while you are ...

  7. BT Superfast Fibre - Wikipedia

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    BT Superfast Fibre (formerly BT Infinity) is a broadband service in the United Kingdom provided by BT Consumer, the consumer sales arm of the BT Group.The underlying network is fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), which uses optical fibre for all except the final few hundred metres (yards) to the consumer, and delivers claimed download speeds of "up to 76 Mbit/s" and upload speeds of "up to 19 Mbit/s ...

  8. Broadband - Wikipedia

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    Broadband. Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide- bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access. The transmission medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber ...

  9. Big four broadband firms beaten by smaller rivals in latest ...

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    The group’s latest broadband rankings placed Virgin Media, Sky, BT and TalkTalk below smaller rivals – including Zen Internet, Hyperoptic and Community Fibre, which topped the table based on a ...