They nearly all rent their lines from BT who have the monopoly on 95% of the phone lines in the UK, a lot (not all) of the cheaper broadband providers are just BT under another name anyway and target the people with less money.
Sky, Virgin, Talk Talk etc all rent lines (Copper) from BT but can offer a better internet speed as they can afford to pay BT more money.
Virgin are the only other provider who have installed their own Fibre Optic network and now offer up to 200mb speeds.
They take the absolute piss with the internet speeds we get in our homes compared to the rest of the modern world, i was using 300mb plus speeds in work in London well over 10 years ago but i did work in a Data Centre
London broadband speeds 'slower than a small Indian village' as Britain lags behind rest of world - Mirror Online
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