Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has declared that the UK will have the fastest broadband speed in Europe by 2015.

Hunt detailed that the government is planning to invest £300 million generated from the television licence fee into high-speed broadband services, with the view of increasing speeds above 24Mbit/s for over 90 percent of the UK.

Hunt said that UK broadband was already competing competitively with European countries: "Two thirds of the population are now on packages of more than 10 Mbit/s, higher than anywhere in Europe except Portugal and perhaps surprisingly Bulgaria".