"the fastest speed your line can handle" ... where I live, this would be akin to giving me a Ferrari 430 when all I have are potholed farm roads to drive on!
** Offer only available to Orange customers in Orange network areas Home Max is £6.50 a month after 3 months plus line rental.
In other words you have to be one of the lucky ones at one of the 944 Orange LLU Enabled exchanges (out of the UK's 5,500 total). So much for your "20Mbit Broadband to All" headline.
The likeliest result is more choice of 20Mb services for those who can already get one and still no access to 20Mb for the rest of us.
I did a line test & can, I am told, get up to 4mb.
I did a speed check & am getting about 1.5mb.
I guess I could improve my speed a bit, but then I watched the Gadget show & see that in Korea broadband is so fast no-one even bothers about the speed. They download complete films in minutes.
We live in the good'ole UK......what do we expect........something modern!
For my sins, I'm an existing Orange broadband user (it came 'free' with my girlfriend's mobile account). Although we live very near the financial centre of the Universe (Canary Wharf) our line speed currently only averages 3-4mb/s so I was thrilled (well almost) to read your piece. I immediately went to the Orange website and - guess what? - it won't let an existing user check to see if 'superfast broadband' is available! Good old Orange, will they ever change....?
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