Better broadband internet connection

The map based on Ofcom information is HIGHLY misleading as it takes information from all providers.

In fact, only Virgin Media offers anything like the speeds shown for my address with all other providers having to utilise BT Openreach's very low speed network which has a maximum speed for my address of around 4 Mbps. This is disgraceful for a city like London.

To access Virgin's monopolistic high speed network alone whilst retaining telephony and TV services from other providers would add around £25 to my monthly outlay. Why is Virgin not required - like BT Openreach - to offer its network at wholesale prices to all other broadband providers? This would, at a stroke, enable high speed access for large parts of the city not capable of obtaining high speed access thorough BT Openreach and, by default, all other broadband providers.

I've started commissioning gigabit broadband providers to install lines into social housing estates that the company I work for owns and manages in SW London. It's a good way for alternative, hyperfast providers to get a foothold in areas as housing providers and Local Authorities have the scale to make the projects viable.

It has been a challenge to make the business case though, and I'd like to see more government incentives to sponsor associations to undertake these projects.

Doesn't seem to matter which company you buy from, the network is run by BT Openreach and hence your in a cleft stick. We have encountered slow speeds and routers crashing over the last month but our supplier is stuck because Openreach pulls the strings