Openreach<\/a>. 45% of people have been asked to stop scrolling on social media and 31% to quit answering emails or messages. Nearly a third 29% were pestered to not use their phone at the dinner table.<\/p>\nAnd one in 10 parents admitted they have been told off by their own children for spending too much time online. The Openreach research revealed that arguments over time spent online and internet connections are now more common than rows over who has the remote or who takes the longest in the bathroom.<\/p>\n
More than a third of those surveyed admitted slow internet connections can lead to frustrations at home and a quarter said having faster and more reliable broadband would likely reduce the number of arguments at home. The company\u2019s broadband build now covers nearly every city, town and village in the UK, making it the country\u2019s largest and fastest broadband upgrade.<\/p>\n
Katie Milligan, Deputy CEO at Openreach, said: “Let\u2019s face it – slow internet is the modern-day mood killer. Whether it\u2019s buffering during family movie night or battling for bandwidth while everyone\u2019s online, it\u2019s no surprise it\u2019s causing more arguments than doing the dishes! Full Fibre is the UK\u2019s most reliable broadband technology, and it helps households get what they need from the internet without the drama – less buffering, more bonding.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve now made Full Fibre available to 20 million homes and businesses – which is a huge achievement, and all thanks to the hard work of our brilliant engineers. But we\u2019re not stopping there. If we\u2019ve not reached your street yet, it\u2019s very likely we\u2019re coming soon \u2013 and if you can upgrade to Full Fibre, go for it. It\u2019s not just faster and more reliable, it might improve your relationships too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in 10 parents admitted they have been told off by their own children Phone habits are now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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