The UK now has more subscribers to superfast broadband services than Europe’s five largest economies, with connections of 30Mbps or faster now available to 73 percent of the population, up from 60 percent in 2011, according to Ofcom. The figures were revealed today by communications watchdog Ofcom in its European Broadband Scorecard which looks at availability and uptake of fixed line and mobile broadband services across Europe. Most of the data was collected throughout 2013. The increase in availability of superfast packages has taken the UK from third to first for coverage among the ‘EU5’ (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK),…
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