[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

I wasn't being negative, and have to point out that Virgin Media are not the leading provider, due in no small part to their coverage, and are actually losing market share in their cabled areas.

Depends how you are defining "leading". By customer numbers alone then, yes, obviously BT are still No.1 as they have the coverage.

But if you define leading by the product, speed, and quality of network, then you have to say it's Virgin.

1 BT PlusNet, Madasafish, Waitrose ISP 4,600,000
2 Virgin Media NTL, Telewest, Virgin.net 3,836,100
3 Carphone Warehouse Talk Talk, AOL, Opal 2,800,000
4 Sky Easynet, UKOnline 1,792,000
5 Tiscali Pipex, Freedom2Surf, Toucan 1,774,000
6 Orange 1,063,000
7 Kingston Communications Eclipse Internet, Karoo 203,000
8 O2 BE 194,220
9 Thus Demon 126,000

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