According to Virgin Media, a good number of us are confused by broadband and scared of downloading anything from the web. The solution? Broadband Schools, according to Virgin figurehead Sir Richard Branson.

Virgin Media's research of 3,000 internet users found that 44 per cent were left in the dark by the word 'mega-bit', one in three was scared of downloading due to 'security issues', one in ten thought Blu-ray was a type of broadband and worst of all, 17 per cent didn't know what broadband was.

We wonder how those 'internet users' are curently getting online - with the aid of some string and tin cans?

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