[telegraph] Slovenia, created in 1992 following the disintegration of Yugoslavia, is aiming to bring super-fast broadband to seven-in-10 homes by 2015 compared with 66pc in the UK.
It comes despite the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, stating that he wants the UK to have "the best superfast broadband network in Europe" within five years.
Official analysis of European broadband ambitions, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, shows that UK will actually be only the seventh-best country in Europe by 2015. Britain will lag behind The Netherlands, with 90pc coverage, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal and Slovenia, according to analysis by Cullen International on behalf of Ofcom, the communications regulator.
The UK is currently ranked 33rd in the world in terms of broadband speeds, with South Korea and Japan offering its citizens speeds five times faster. Charlie Ponsonby, chief executive of broadband comparison service Simplifydigital, said British people are "suffering from a less-than- world-class network".
Slovenia plans to have better broadband coverage than Britain
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