Less than half of all British ­broadband connections receive superfast speeds, according to a report Getty ImagesMore than six million broadband connections in the UK fail to reach download speeds greater than the proposed minimum ten megabits per second, a cross-party group of MPs have said. A report authored by Grant Shapps, the former Tory party chairman, claimed that less than half of all UK broadband connections receive superfast speeds of 24Mbps or more, after conducting a constituency by constituency analysis. The report, Broadband 2.0, claims that while it is impossible to gauge whether this is due to lack of availability or uptake, it represents “a worrying picture for post-Brexit Britain’s competitiveness”. The industry last night challenged the claims, while a spokesman for Ofcom, the regulator, said: “We share concerns that broadband must improve and we’re already taking firm, wide-ranging action…

Source: The Times July 28, 2017 23:03 UTC