In the latest report from Ofcom on fixed-line residential broadband, the average residential broadband speed in the UK was found to have increased by 22 per cent over six months to 14.7 mbps by May.

The report showed an overall increase of 309 per cent from since records began in 2008.

The increase in broadband speeds comes as the UK government provides investment of over £1 billion to the rural broadband project, which seeks to deliver superfast broadband of over 24 mbps as a minimum to 90 percent of premises by 2017.

Ofcom consumer group director, Claudio Pollack, said: “consumers are demanding more than ever from their broadband service-Internet providers have responded by upgrading customers to higher speed services and launching new superfast packages.”

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