BT declined to comment.

It comes after a survey found that almost three-quarters of house hunters
would be “put-off” from buying their dream home if was not
hooked-up to high-speed broadband. The ISP Review survey also found that
more than half would pay more for a house if it had fast broadband.

The Government has committed £830m of public money over the next seven years
to ensure superfast broadband connections will be rolled out to every
community. Some rural areas are still having to put up with slow broadband
speeds, with an album taking up to 45 minutes to download in some places,
compared to a matter of seconds in big cities.

The village of Farningham in Kent has the slowest internet speeds in Britain,
according to comparison website Top10.com. Britain’s average broadband speed
is 6.86Mbps (megabits per second), but Farningham’s average was 1.30Mbps,
meaning it would take 12 hours to download a film.

The Prince of Wales has complained that upland areas are being left in “broadband
deserts”.

Virgin Media has partnered with hundreds of independent estate agents to list
whether or not properties are connected to its high-speed cable broadband
network. It has also joined forces with housebuilder Persimmonn to build-in
its fibre-optic cables to new homes.

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