Broadband speeds lag well behind Europe

THE Government has been lambasted for allowing this country to lag behind much of Europe on broadband speeds and penetration.

A study on broadband available to consumers in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick has found that, on average, users with fixed lines benefit from just 60% of advertised speeds.

The research, the first of its kind undertaken here, covered popular broadband activities such as web surfing, downloading music and movies, and found that “Irish fixed line broadband consumers receive only 60% of the bandwidth speed advertised, on average mobile broadband consumers achieve only 64% of advertised speed, on average faster broadband services do not deliver equally faster web-browsing speeds.