By Ben King, 2 April 2001 16:54
NEWS The UK has come tenth out of 11 in NetValue's broadband league table, narrowly 'beaten' by China for the wideband web wooden spoon. Just one in 32 UK households have high-speed access to the internet via ADSL, wireless or TV cable. The surprise winner was South Korea, with 57.3 per cent of households enjoying broadband internet access. The US came second, with broadband in one home in nine. France was next, with one in 16 residences broadband-enabled, whereas Germany could only boast 1 in 20 high-speed internet homes. Last month a survey from Van Dusseldorp and Partners also cast Britain as the baby of the broadband bunch, with only 30,000 active DSL subscribers, compared to Germany's 400,000. However, the government has pledged to overtake France and Germany in the broadband race by 2003, and to become the broadband leaders of all the G8 group of industrialised nations by 2005.
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