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Mobile Broadband Providers Being Dishonest About Average Speeds

Mobile Broadband Providers Being Dishonest About Average Speeds

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Mobile phone networks need to come clean about the true speed one can expect to achieve when getting mobile broadband services instead of providing with "unrealistic claims" says Broadband Genie. The broadband comparison website says that in 2009, the average mobile broadband speed was a mere 1mbps, a far cry from the 7.2mbps that some companies had promised to their customers. The survey carried out over 6000 mobile tests also found out that a significant proportion of...



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