Want fast broadband? Move from Hull to Middlesbrough - Middlesbrough has the UK’s fastest broadband according to a new survey from price-comparison service Uswitch. Residents there enjoy average speeds of 34.46Mbps, slightly faster than Belfast and Brighton in second and third place respectively.
The results show that you don’t need to live in the biggest cities to get the fastest broadband. Birmingham comes 16th in the list, with speeds of 25.79Mbps; Manchester comes 23rd (23.81Mbps); while London can only manage 28th place (22.44Mbps).
Overall the results show that 20 of the UK’s 42 biggest towns and cities have speeds below 24Mbps, which is the accepted minimum for super-fast broadband. USwitch said this suggests that while super-fast broadband is available to 90 per cent of the UK, many people simply don’t want it, can’t afford it, or aren’t aware that they can get it.
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Only 10 per cent of people get speeds of 50Mbps and above, while 30 per cent experience speeds slower than 5Mbps. The tests were carried out on customers’ broadband between August 2015 and February 2016.
Ewan Taylor-Gibson, broadband expert at uSwitch, called for more to be done to “encourage the adoption of superfast broadband, now it’s so widely available”. With speeds of 12.42Mbps, Hull comes bottom of the list, largely because its broadband infrastructure is run by independent communications company KCOM, not BT Openreach. KCOM is in the process of supplying super-fast fibre broadband to Hull’s residents, but the speeds have yet to improve. Aberdeen comes second to bottom (15.67Mbps), one place beneath Milton Keynes (17.10Mbps).
