UK overtakes France and Germany in Broadband speed

The average speed of Broadband service available to UK customers has overtaken France and Germany, and plans are in place to improve it further.
 
Nine out of 10 homes and businesses in the UK should have access to superfast broadband, and the UK should have the fastest broadband network of any major European country by 2015, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.

The Government has allocated £530m to providing the UK with the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015.

“In my very first speech as a Minister I said that I wanted us to have the “best” superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015,” said Jeremy Hunt.

“In defining ‘best’ you include factors like price and coverage as well as speed. But over the past two years it has become clear, as Usain Bolt wouldn't hesitate to say, to be the best you need to be the fastest.

“So I am today announcing an ambition to be not just the best, but specifically the fastest broadband of any major European country by 2015. Indeed we may already be there.”

The market is expected to provide superfast broadband to around two thirds of the country. The Government is supporting the roll-out of superfast broadband in areas like rural Cumbria so that it will reach the third of UK homes and businesses who would otherwise miss out.

The UK has made good progress on internet speed:

  • Average speed in the UK has increased by about 50 per cent since May 2010
  • In the last year alone average speed increased from 7.6 Mbps to 9 Mbps, overtaking France and Germany so the UK now has the fastest broadband of any large European Country
  • Two thirds of the population are now on packages of more than 10 Mbps, higher than anywhere in Europe except Portugal and Bulgaria

But the Culture Secretary added that we cannot afford to fall behind in providing high speed internet access: “We simply will not have a competitive broadband network unless we recognise the massive growth in demand for higher and higher speeds.”

Comments

Jim said…
I dont think it will be so much on our minds by 2015. Really, I dont think that currently the pound can last that long.

Still could be worse, be could be aboard the RMS Titanic, that is also called the Euro, that's already hit the iceburg.

and it could be worse for the Euro, it could be the US Dollar, as the us dollar is simply an atom bomb ticking down, and ticking down fast.

You think we are in a recession?, well you ain't seen nothing yet.

and the more governments interfere, and try to stop it, the worse its going to be in the end. Still that does not matter really to governments and politicians really "just so long as I can delay it past my watch" then it really does not matter how much worse I make it.
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