Many of us opt for the most prominent market names such as BT Total broadband, Sky broadband, O2 broadband or Orange home broadband when we’re signing up to a broadband connection. But it could be well worth the effort to do a little consumer research, before signing on the dotted line.
BE Broadband for example, quietly owned by 02, is now one of the UK’s fastest growing service providers. Its first connected customer received a highly creditable transfer rate of 18.5MBps, and the company continues to offer a fast, reliable service. All of BE’s packages come with unlimited download allowances, so you won’t be faced with hefty penalty fees for exceeding your usage cap, and even customers on its lower end 8 Mbps package can reach upload speeds in excess of 1.3 Mbps.
The advertised speed, as with all providers, is the maximum possible. It will be impeded by factors such as the distance of your home from the local telephone exchange, signal interference and the quality of the copper wire used for the connection. But you can still bank on some fairly zippy download and upload rates all the same. The company operates an exceptionally generous ‘fair usage’ policy which has never, so far, been implemented, which makes BE Broadband an excellent choice for heavy-duty internet users like gamesters and download addicts of all kinds. More information about the various packages on offer can be found on the company’s website, www.BeThere.co.uk.