The UK has one again gained the recognition of being the country with the greatest broadband growth according to new data released by UK analysis firm TopicPoint.

Worldwide there are now over 164 million broadband connection with the greatest number being in countries which are usually regarded as broadband leaders. The UK however achieved the greatest gain of 16.5% between Q4 2004 and Q2 2005, with only France the only other G7 country obtaining over 10% growth.
This means that there are over 1 million more broadband connections in the UK since the end of last year.

The UK still has a long way to catch up with South Korea, the worlds most saturated broadband market, it attained a figure of 25 lines per 100 population, the first country to do so.

While the UK broadband market is on the rise, caution is needed to ensure we don't lose in the next race to provide faster broadband connections, many countries are either trialling of have in place far faster connections than we see in the UK.