Akamai, a content delivery provider , has provided a report for Q2 2011 called’ State of the Internet ‘ monitoring broadband speeds in over 230 countries to determine the fastest broadband speeds.

When it comes to average broadband speeds the UK is ranked 25th in the world. We are behind such countries as Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.

South Korea comes in top with an average speed of almost 14Mpbs, followed by Hong Kong with a speed of 10.3 Mbps and third Japan with 8.9Mbps. Uk was 25th with an average speed of 5.0Mbps. This was behind Latvia with 8.2Mbps,Romanias 6.8Mbps and an average broadband speed of 5.8Mbps for America. Germany came 21 st with a speed of 5.3Mbps and France was 39th with 3.9Mbps.

However it is thought that if the UK concentrated on rolling out broadband just in the cities our results would have improved considerably.  Also because the broadband market is so expensive in the UK   many customers have not yet opted for the faster broadband deals on offer which means that  average speeds in the UK are much lower .