The study ranks the UK at number 25 or 31 depending on how the figures are interpreted leaving us way behind countries such as South Korea, Iceland and Greece. The broadband quality table in the study uses data collected from speedtest.net in 66 countries, and measures download and upload speeds, and latency. By those measures, the UK, with an average download speed of 4.6Mbps and uploads at 0.5Mbps, is down in 31st place.
But the researchers then add in a measure of broadband penetration to come up with their broadband leadership league. The fact that uptake and availability in the UK are both high pushes us up to 25th place in that table.