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UK offering relatively poor value for broadband services Low absolute pricing is among the region’s best, but lower average speeds compared with much of Europe makes the UK one of the continent’s laggards when it comes to broadband value for money Share this item with your network: By Published: 16 Dec 2020 14:12 With access to high-speed broadband now essential for people working from home, a survey from Cable.co.uk has revealed that the UK is still very much in Europe’s slow lane for high-speed, high-value connectivity. The broadband pricing comparison firm’s study investigated...

Paul Lipscombe However people from Dudley are the most content  People from Manchester are the most likely to complain about poor internet connection, according to a study by Cable.co.uk. The comparison site assessed the location and name of more than 11,000 one-star reviews as part of the study. It found that Manchester topped the complaints chart with 46.5 complaints per 100,000 people. This was significantly higher than Dudley which clocked 4.04 complaints per 100,000 people. Cable.co.uk cosumer telecoms expert Dan Howdle said: “It is interesting to find that Manchester (which at 10 per...

| 16 December 2020 The UK is fourth cheapest of 29 countries in Western Europe for broadband and 67th in the world overall, with an average package price of US$34.78. However, due to lower average speeds compared with much of Europe, it fared far worse in terms of value for money, coming in 25th of 29 countries in Western Europe and 93rd in the world. Within Western Europe, France is the cheapest, with an average package price of US$32.16 per month, followed by Italy (US$32.73) and Portugal (US$33.31). That’s according Cable.co.uk, which has released its annual global broadband...

Global Comparison of Broadband Package Pricing in 211 Countries – UK offers poor value 15th Dec 2020    |    Source: cable.co.uk NEW GLOBAL BROADBAND PRICING LEAGUE REVEALED – UK BROADBAND STILL POOR VALUE FOR MONEY COMPARED TO REST OF EUROPE * 3,288 fixed-line broadband deals in 211 countries were analysed by broadband pricing comparison experts at Cable.co.uk between 29 October 2020 and 9 December 2020 * The UK came fourth cheapest of 29 countries studied in Western Europe and 67th in the world overall, with an average package price of USD 34.78. However, due to lower a...

Our annual broadband pricing research for 2020 By Dan Howdle | Tuesday, December 15th 2020 This morning, Cable.co.uk released its annual global broadband pricing study looking at the price of broadband in 211 countries. This number varies year on year, with a host of different countries qualifying or failing to qualify year on year – usually if they have any packages or not, sometimes due to warfare or the collapse of a currency. But 211 is the highest number of countries we've thus far managed to gather the data on since we began running this tracker back i...