UK 'lagging on VoIP usage'

The poor rate of broadband adoption in Britain at the start of the decade has been blamed for slow adoption of Internet telephony today. The UK is lagging behind Europe on the take-up of VoIP, according to a report published on Tuesday, and its failure to adopt broadband as early as other countries is taking the blame. The EIAA claimed on Tuesday that 10 percent of Europeans had made telephone calls over the Web but only 5 percent had done so in the UK.