Britain's worst broadband spots named and shamed

The blackspot list

The fact that the City of Worcester made the list shocked Alex Buttle, the director of Top10.com as it has a population of just under 100,000 people - "that's a lot of people and businesses reliant on sub-standard broadband speed," he said.

He believes the UK's networks are ‘failing to deliver' top broadband speeds across the UK, but being private businesses, it has to make economic sense to improve speeds and invest in infrastructure in far-flung parts of the UK.

"With Virgin, BT and other networks now making their super-fast fibre optic networks a priority, let's hope this converts into improved broadband speed for people in every area of the UK, whether urban or rural - and however low the population. In the meantime, broadband users need to shop around in order to guarantee they are getting the best possible service they can in the area they are in," he said.

Here is Top10.com's list of UK broadband blackspots.