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Nearly 30,000 new broadband internet connections are being made each week, according to a report from the telecoms watchdog Oftel.

This rate of growth is more in relative terms than that in Germany, France and Sweden - all of which have similar populations to the UK.

However, Britain is still behind all of the other G7 countries in terms of overall broadband penetration with total take up at currently standing at around 4 per cent.

Oftel said that this is partly because the other countries began rolling out broadband earlier than the UK.