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Virgin Media Officially UK's Fastest Broadband Provider (for September at least)

Virgin Media Officially UK's Fastest Broadband Provider (for September at least)

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It seems that Virgin Media has won the race for the fastest average broadband speed in UK by beating Q2 in September this year Virgin Media was clearly ahead of the competition in terms of average download speed which stood at 6.128Mbps against O2 and Be's 5.321Mbps; however the later had an edge in case of upload speeds. In both cases, Virgin, Be and O2 have top speed packages - 20mbps, 24mbps, 20mbps respectively - that helped skew the results in their...



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