Virgin and Vodafone declared fastest broadband providers
During the second annual Top 10 Broadband Awards, both Virgin Media and Vodafone were among the broadband internet service providers given the highest citations.
Apart from ranking among the top ten, Virgin Media was also awarded as the Broadband Innovation Prize for its 50Mb product. Vodafone on the other hand was cited to have the Best Rated Mobile Broadband as it topped in popularity ratings of customers.
The Top 10 Broadband Awards were based on the 1.5 million customer ratings and over 400,000 speed tests on the award-giving body’s official website.
Cinching the Best Value Home Broadband citation was Plusnet, a considerably small ISP that offers value package with more-than-sufficient speed for much affordable cost. Other internet service providers who were awarded were 02 for its Best Rated Home Broadband, and the Best Value Mobile Broadband was awarded to 3 for its market-topping dongle which currently offers the low-cost £15 per month for usage of 15GB.
It was an awards night to remember for TalkTalk as well as they walked away with the Best Broadband and Phone. Talktalk’s essential package paved way for the said citation they got.
On the other hand, the Best Broadband and TV award was won by Sky, beating their strongest competition in the category, Virgin Media and BT.
With all these diverse direction of the awards, director of Top 10 Broadband Alex Buttle said the London ceremony was not dominated by a single broadband internet provider. Buttle continued to say that the past year bore witness to the major shifts in the broadband industry.
The Top 10 Broadband director saw this distribution of citations as a sign that most UK residents and subscribers, including businesses, are getting more reliable choices for broadband connections. Buttle closed his statement saying the awards ceremony solidifies the strong competition within the broadband market this year.
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Vodafone’s faster mobile broadband to be experienced by selected cities
Vodafone has rolled out faster mobile broadband connectivity to the cities in UK which have the highest number of users. This includes Liverpool, Birmingham and London, who will get a maximum speed of 14.4 Mbps, though their chances of getting near that speed largely depends on their location when they are surfing and the number of people who are on the broadband network at that particular time.
Indeed, Vodafone seemed to be very keen on making sure that there was no room for an ambiguity as such with regard to the impact the broadband makeover will have on their customers. They said, in a statement, that while 14.4 Mbps is the theoretical maximum speed, the customers could expect to see speeds of around 1 to 4 Mbps with a more practical figure of 10.8 Mbps as the maximum.
The chief technology office of Vodafone UK, Jeni Mundy, said that the customers trust them to provide a mobile network which is reliable wherever they are located and regardless of whether they are an individual or a business.
The network upgrade taking place means that customers can be assured again that they are constantly on the move with regard to increasing the quality of the network in response to the increasing demand.
This move will make sure that the network will be more reliable and that downloads will be faster. Other parts of UK should also benefit from this upgrade in technology so that their mobile broadband speeds will also see an increase, Vodafone says.
Over 80% of the equipment which is being utilized by Vodafone should be ready to take advantage of this upgrade, which means that only a few people will be unlucky and will have to upgrade their data cards, phones or dongles if they are to benefit from this.
Source - IT Pro
