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To illustrate how far the UK has come and how far it has to go we have animated the download speeds for the four nations that comprise the UK since 2009.

It is the fifth year since we ran our first USC poll and the results for 2014 are in, suggesting that the public wants something a lot better than the 2 Mbps USC that the Government is slowly working towards.

While some may claim to name the slowest streets, we are ensuring that attention is given to the spending of our money to improve broadband speeds across the UK and plan to release updates to this superfast take-up chart periodically.

Reminder for people to vote for in the ISPA Customer Choice Award category for the awards that will be handed out in July 2014.

Our latest poll suggests a disparity between how happy home users are with business users of broadband, with more home users stating their broadband is fit for purpose.

Our recent poll on the levels of information given to people about the BDUK roll-outs revealed that four times as many people said they had no information compared to those who had, suggesting take-up could be better if councils provided better information.

We have published the latest copy of our regular broadband factsheet including the latest analysis of broadband speeds across the UK.

When we have a few offers updated in the course of a few days we do a small summary, and we this week we have the £100 vouchers returning on BT Infinity, TalkTalk with £50 vouchers on the TV service and half price or free broadband from Sky.

The January Sale fever has largely bypassed the broadband world but there are a few new offers this week.

Rather than just issue the usual warning about Christmas lights and broadband interference, we have recorded a video showing how to detect whether your lights might be the source of your broadband slow downs over the Christmas period.