Swedes get 26Mbit/second broadband

Just a few months ago, the same lucky Swedes were getting 2.5Mbit/s ADSL from Bostream and 10Mbit/s from Bredbandbolaget using cable.

And the connection only costs €40 per month.

Makes BT Openworld and NTL's cable service look pretty naff.

Although NTL has dark fibre aplenty running into many London homes, despite a massive advertising campaign offering its cable service, the apparatchiks say some areas will never get cabled up.

Whether this is just inefficiency or for marketing reasons, only Gipsy Rose Lee is likely to know... µ