Tag archive: Colette Bowe

We all know that ads exaggerate. After all, persuasion is their job. But when a broadband company advertises download speeds up “up to” 8Mbps, it’s fair to expect something at least close to that. But a study earlier this year found that 62% of users were surfing at less than half the speeds they’d been led to believe, and that hasn’t sat well with government watchdog Ofcom. It’s told broadband… Read More

If you live in Britain, you might well find a big disconnect between the broadband speed your ISP claims you can reach and the actual achievable speed.   Now the government is asking the biggest providers just why that’s the case. Ofcom, the government watchdog that regulates all things relating to telecom, is getting executives from the six biggest ISPs in front of its Consumer Panel to find out why the information has been so… Read More