Compare Home Broadband, UK

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If you have decided to avail a home broadband service, you will need to check out the existing service providers and make sure you get the most suitable one. With multiple service providers in the foray offering highly attractive deals, choosing does take time.

To begin with you can check out the best broadband services in your area and their quality of service and customer support. Most broadband providers offer packages at varying speeds and charge for them accordingly. The usage limits and the fair usage policy is yet another important factor to bear in mind. If you will be receiving Internet through a phone line or a fibre optic or LLU could determine the speed of the broadband you are likely to enjoy. Apart from these points, you do need to bear in mind the availability of broadband bundles which offer phone and television services to their broadband customers. These broadband bundles are highly customizable and flexible enabling the customer to choose services as per their requirement.


The highly preferred Broadband Providers in UK which are gained a respectable customer size include BT, Virgin, Plusnet and Sky. You do need to check out their packages in greater detail before choosing them for each of them are greatly attractive.

For those who wish to enjoy extremely fast download speeds up to 50 Mbps can avail Virgin XXL Broadband which offers unlimited usage while the Virgin XL and Virgin L deals offer speeds up to 10MB and 20MB respectively. Virgin provides Internet through its fibre optic network which is quite reliable and much faster than broadband provided through ADSL network.

Sky offers two packages viz. Sky Broadband Everyday and Sky Broadband Unlimited at a uniform download speed of up to 20Mbps. Sky Broadband Everyday is ideal for regular browsing, emailing and online shopping while for those who are heavily into downloading can go for Sky Broadband Unlimited which has no caps on limits and promises great speeds at all times. For availing Sky Broadband, you need to have BT phone line and pay line rentals as well.


BT is yet another seasoned player in the broadband service area. In fact, BT could be considered a market leader in providing broadband services in UK. BT provides broadband through ADSL lines and hence you require a telephone line. Moreover the location of your residence from the telephone exchange and the contention ratio will determine the download speed you are likely to enjoy. BT offers a uniform download speed of up to 20 Mb across all its three broadband packages viz. BT Total Broadband Option 1, BT Total Broadband Option 2 and BT Total Broadband Option 3. BT Infinity is the latest offering from BT which offers broadband at download speed of up to 40Mb through its fibre optic network.

The Plusnet Broadband is offered at download speed of up to 20Mb across two packages viz. Plusnet Value Broadband and Plusnet Extra Broadband. Plusnet offers broadband on no contract basis. You can even go for home phone and broadband packages offered by Plusnet.

With a brief overview of popular broadband offers, you could even make a comparative study of them and choose the most suitable one. Aiding you in the comparison are many websites which offer to do them for you along with the speed checker tool incorporated within them. It pays for you to take time in choosing your broadband offer for you need value for money broadband service and quality customer support as well.

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