UK Broadband Speeds hit the Nadir

A survey carried out recently by OECD on the internet connections in thirty countries revealed that in terms of download speeds or internet access speeds, the broadband internet sector of the United Kingdom was lagging in the twenty first place behind countries such as Portugal, Spain and France.

The study in its turn had covered the leading industrialized nations in the world, only to show that the internet connections in the United Kingdom were among the slowest in the world.

However, the United Kingdom salvages some prestige in the research’s broadband penetration assessment, where it claimed a reasonable thirteenth place out of the total thirty. Nonetheless, the experts as well as the broadband internet fanatics in the country are not satisfied yet, lamenting that even this could only place the United Kingdom broadband connections in the mid-table.

Meanwhile, it is also worth mentioning here that the Labour government is keen on enhancing the speeds considerably across the country, which according to it very much depended on the GBP 6 per year broadband tax on the fixed phone lines in the country, announced recently.

According to the government’s claim this levy, dubbed as broadband tax that would be slapped on the domestic phone lines aims to raise a fund of GBP 170 million a year that could be used to finance faster broadband internet connections.