Broadband Test – Is Your Internet Service High Speed? The way broadband speed is advertised and what you should expect is often confusing – and perhaps even deliberately so. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) delivers your broadband through your phone line, on a separate service to voice telephone calls. This is called ADSL (Asymmetric or Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line), because upload and download speeds are different. You normally need a DSL filter if using a phone line rather than a cable service. There are a number of things which [...]

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Image via Wikipedia A recent Ofcom report shows the UK leading the world in its use of digital communications, yet trailing behind in 21st position out of 30 for Broadband speeds. News – UK prime in most digital areas but not broadband The UK is one of the world’s most advanced countries in terms of digital communications, an Ofcom report says. The telecoms regulator said people in the UK watched more TV and sent more texts than people in many other countries, … UK broadband [...]

Broadband Speeds in the UK Ofcom recently released a report which represents the most thorough examination of broadband speeds ever performed within the UK. The data they collected was taken from over 60 million speed test results accumulated by 1600 broadband customers and it paints a relatively bleak picture of the UK broadband market as it stands today. The findings basically revealed what many people already knew to be true, that broadband speeds vary wildly depending on a number of factors and in the most [...]

Rolling contracts allow BT to automatically renew your contract with them for a further 12 months *without* your explicit consent. Their normal contract, however, allows you to leave when the 12 months is up. Which one did you sign up to? Because If you miss the annual reminder and try to leave BT for a cheaper alternative phone call supplier, you are stuck unless you pay for the privilege to leave! This is damaging to competition in the deregulated telecoms industry, and so far, OFCOM [...]

Features and Benefits of VoIP Services VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol is a new tool allowing telephone calls to be made across the internet, rather than through a phone line. For those doing this from home, a computer is usually required for connection. However, simple specialist hardware that resembles an ordinary handset is available for commercial users. VoIP telephone calls are not restricted to other VoIP phones – calls can be made to any type of line. As a result, its is beginning to [...]

Essential Business Telecom Services Introduction Telecommunications technology – in all forms, and certainly not least in business – continues to advance at an alarming rate. Business people, today, are faced with a plethora of existing, convergent or entirely new technologies, and must make important, informed decisions to safeguard the future of their businesses. New telecommunications technologies, products and services must be suitable for conveying important business information, in the first instance, but must also offer immediate payback in terms of efficiency, flexible working and customer [...]

LLU stands for LOCAL LOOP UNBUNDLING The Local Loop connects your telephone socket or switchboard to the telephone exchange. In the past, this has always been owned by BT. Since telecom deregulation was introduced to break the BT monopoly and create free market competiton and a "level playing field", call traffic between telephone exchanges was allowed to pass over alternative networks. This is known as LCR or LEAST COST ROUTING. But historically BT always owned the last part of the connection and charge line rental [...]