Virgin Media ahead in broadband speed tests

According to recent reports, speed tests that have been carried out by industry professionals have shown that Virgin Media now offers the fastest broadband speeds.

According to industry experts in the field of broadband recently performed speed tests have shown that Virgin Media now offers the greatest broadband speeds, having snatched the crown from rival provider O2. Analysts stated that thousands of broadband speed tests were carried out and the results showed that Virgin Media was taking the lead with regards to speeds.

An industry official involved in the testing stated: “Virgin Broadband have finally overtaken O2 broadband as the UK’s fastest average download speed supplier. Data shows that the average download speed for a Virgin user is now 6.13Mbps as compared to 5.32Mbps for O2.” The report indicates that for the month of September Virgin Media enjoyed taking the lead against other high speed providers including O2 and Be Broadband.

He added: “The results show the fruits of Virgin’s work to improve download speeds in recent months and we expect the results to improve further for Virgin as their 50Mbps service becomes more widely available over the coming months.”

Officials have said that it is likely that the UK will see average broadband speeds increase further in the near future, as providers continue to utilise new technology in order to make improvements to broadband services and speeds.

However, some providers did not come out too well on the broadband speed tests, according to the report, with the slowest download speeds coming from Eclipse Internet and AOL. The providers found to have the slowest upload speeds were AOL and Talk Talk. For September Virgin Media was offering its users average download speeds of 6.128Mbps compare to an average download speed of 5.321Mbps from Be.