Ofcom’s broadband PR dream continues…

I must say I was surprised to see Ofcom get some great headlines today:

The Guardian:  ‘Ofcom opens door for 10 times faster broadband connections’.

FT:  ‘Ofcom seeks to spur broadband investment’.

The Telegraph was less sanguine:  ‘Broadband speeds ‘lagging behind'’

But look at the mis-reporting by the Telegraph: 

‘The average speed of these connections, meanwhile, has trebled during the past 18 months and is now 4.6 megabits per second – or more than 80 times the speed of old fashioned dial-up connections.’

I also saw this mis-reported on a few other outlets…

 

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