BT and Virgin Media have crossed swords over new data from Ofcom showing an upturn in UK broadband speeds.

The study, published on Thursday (March 14th 2013), revealed that the national average residential broadband connection delivered speeds of 12Mbps in November 2012, up by 234 per cent on the figure recorded at the same point in 2008.

However, BT chose to use the research as an opportunity to criticise its rival, declaring that its network is much more likely to deliver the same speeds at peak times than Virgin's, reports Computerworld UK.

A spokesman for the telecoms giant said Virgin Media admits to managing traffic by up to 75 per cent if customers are judged to have used their broadband too much.

Responding, Virgin Media pointed out that it often over-delivers on speeds and offers the country's fastest broadband, both at peak times and throughout the day.

"We always deliver speeds far closer to our headline claims than BT manages at any time of day so BT is right to point out their network's consistency - consistently failing to deliver what they promise," the company added.

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