The government has its work cut out if it is to achieve its plans of bringing the UK the best super-fast broadband in Europe by 2015.

BBC News technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones claimed the country currently performs strongly in terms of the price, choice and coverage of home broadband.

However, Mr Cellan-Jones said Britain is lagging well behind some of its European neighbours with regards to connection speeds, which will make the task of becoming the continent's number one even trickier.

"Getting to the top of the table in five years won't be easy - the likes of Sweden and the Netherlands aren't just going to stand still," the expert remarked.

His was commenting on the coalition's new plans for the technology, in which fibre optic broadband will be made available to every community by 2015.

Research published earlier this year by Ofcom stated the UK's current average broadband speed stood at 5.2Mbps in May, while the regulator also recently found fewer than one per cent of homes have a super-fast web connection.

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