Seventy five per cent of the UK will connect to the web
viabroadbandby December 2007 but top
speeds are low compared to the rest of the world, analysts have
said.
"The speeds that are available in the UK are lagging a long,
long way behind other European counties," said Jupiter analyst Ian
Fogg.
The fastest speed available in the UK is 24Mbps although
typically the fastest people will get is about 8Mbps. Users in
France are able to access speeds around 24Mbps as standard.
Broadband CEOs have recently been
asked by the Ofcom consumer panel to justify advertised
broadband speeds, when many users fail to get anything like the
maximum speeds promised.
Colette Bowe, chairman of the communications watchdog's
independent Ofcom Consumer Panel, has asked the top six UK
broadband CEOs to come up with systems that give customers clear
information.