New research claims the UK's average broadband speed in the final quarter of 2012 reached 6.5Mbps - significantly lower than the figure quoted by Ofcom.

The telecoms regulator's latest report on the matter revealed that the average speed increased from 9Mbps to 12Mbps between May and November last year, but content delivery network specialist Akamai insisted that only around a tenth of UK connections had speeds above 10Mbps.

However, Akamai also saw a major upturn in Britain's average peak connection speed, which rose to 30.5Mbps - an increase of 44 per cent on the corresponding period a year earlier.

Across Europe, growth of more than ten per cent was observed in all countries.

David Belson, editor of the Akamai report, said strong results were seen across all of its key connectivity metrics around the world in 2012.

"We believe that this points to greater availability of broadband connectivity, as well as increased speeds on those connections," he commented.

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