The UK is lagging behind Europe on the take-up of VoIP, according to a report published by EIAA Mediascope Europe Study, and it blames the UK's failure to adopt broadband as early as other countries as the reason.

According to it's figures on average 10 percent of Europeans had made telephone calls over the internet using VoIP, but only 5 percent of us Brits had done the same. Alison Fennah, executive director of the EIAA said that this was due to the UK having a late start in broadband adoption, it was only in the autumn of 2004 that the UK finally caught up with France in broadband availability, and at one point the UK having four times less connections than Germany.

Another less than amazing fact is that we use the internet more than a year ago, the study, which quizzed 7,000 users across Europe, showed that the average European now spends 17 percent longer on the Internet than it did a year ago. The average surfing time has grown from  8hrs 45mins a week online in 2004 to 10 hours 15 minutes today.