As we all know British broadband users have to put up with some of the slowest broadband speeds in Europe, but a recent report of 23 European countries puts us way back in 9th place.

The places the UK in a position lower than Poland, Slovakia and Hungary while nearly ten times slower than the leader Finland.
The research information was compiled by independent 'think tank' the Information Technology Innovation Foundation which also compared the cost of broadband with households in Finland paying £2.54 per month per Mbps for broadband compared with £5.50 in Britain.

While Ofcom thinks that the future of high speed broadband may not lie in fibre, in the short term those counties who have invested in fibre infrastructure are providing far faster connections to it's customers. How far has the UK got to fall behind until we start to see major investment in the UK?