Behind on broadband

SIR – You report (December 8) on Britain’s extremely variable broadband speeds.

I live half the year in Germany and half the year in Sri Lanka. Our broadband speed in Germany, a developed country, is between 6 and 16 Mbps.

Our broadband speed in Sri Lanka, a developing country, is 80 to 90 Mbps. We have a fibre optic connection right to the inside of our house. My brother in New Zealand also has a fibre optic connection to his house.

Why are older countries so far behind?

Captain John Maioha Stewart (retd) Negombo, Sri Lanka

SIR – There is a simple remedy to slow broadband speeds: make service providers charge by the amount of data downloaded, not for fictitious “up to” speeds.

In this way they would have an incentive to provide us with the maximum speed possible to earn more revenue.

Coventry, Warwickshire