The UK become the European number one in the number of broadband lines.

A report from Topic Point shows that Britain has 9.8 million broadband connections, 2.8 million of these have been added in the last nine month and has overtaken France on the top spot who only added 2.2 million in the same period to bring it's total to 9.7 million. Germany came in with 8.4 million connections.

The report also focused to the issue to Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) and warns that the UK is lagging behind it's European neighbours in it's adoption. Britain currently has only 122,000 unbundled lines, which is dwarfed by the number in France with stands at 2.5 million.

It also predicted that next year will be a slower for broadband take-up compared to this year, but predicts that there will be 13 million broadband lines in the UK by the end of 2006.