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Originally Posted by Stuart
You are right. However, EE, T-Mobile and Orange are names under which Everything Everywhere trade, so they are not totally different.
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Indeed, Everything Everywhere is the official name of the parent company, whereas the other three are trading or brand names. While the corporate entity may be the same, the actual service(s), level of service, and products you get access to will vary depending on which one you "signed up" to.
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Depends how they arrive at that figure. If they do a proper speed test, then there is cause for concern. If, however, the figures are based on how fast their streams are sent to the clients, the the bit rate of the streams may well be a limiting factor as they are not going to want to stream data to the client too long before it's needed as the user may to able to decode any cache.
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That is indeed what I was getting at - most of these streaming services seldom stream at the full speed of the connection, so the results will be limited in part by the speed of the stream, and may also be limited by the customer's choice of what stream they choose to begin with. If all TalkTalk customers were to choose a higher bitrate stream for example, it may be that TT would end up with a higher average speed than VM. It's also not unheard of for streams to adapt to different bitrates according to many factors, and some sites even force lower bitrates for specific ISPs or browsers.
All in all, the graphs may be nice to look at, but not much can be said for scientific accuracy without a detailed description of method.