Blewbury in Oxfordshire secures the top position, while Caxton and Madingley the two Cambridgeshire villages secures second and fourth place respectively. Castleton in Newport secures the third position, Whitchurch, Hampshire takes the fifth position.

John Petter, BT consumer division’s Managing director said that thousands have registered in the race but it is a long way to reach the finish line.

BT also announced the roll out of 1Gbps fibre optic broadband service in Suffolk, which will provide fibre broadband to forty rural market towns in the first year. The trail super fast broadband will take place in the early 2011 in Suffolk and Kesgrave.

The fibre optic cables will replace the present copper wire and it will allow faster fast data transfer to the home from the telephone exchanges.

The name of the towns is not yet revealed but it is could be installed in areas with cabinets and premises.

Rory Cellan-Jones said that, the country performs greatly with regard to coverage, price and choice of home broadband. Although, he said Britain is behind other European neighbours in terms of broadband connection speeds and this will make it more challenging to attain the number one position.

The expert said that the likes of Netherlands and Sweden will continue and therefore achieving the top position within the five years will be difficult. He remarked on the new plans of the coalition to provide fibre optic broadband across all communities in 2015.

Jeremy Hunt, Culture secretary is getting prepared to outline the new strategy of the coalition in which the UK will receive super-fast broadband network in Europe.

Head of community infrastructure specialist Fibrestream, Guy Jarvis has given support for the project and was completely satisfied with the plan to entrust decision-making to the lowest level attainable.

It will ensure obtaining local first-mile networks which will be led by the local communities, he wrote on the Fibrestream blog. He said that the step top provide ‘digital village pump’ and then allowing the local communities to choose how they want to move ahead was positive.

The scheme will get started in the early 2011 in the Suffolk town of Kesgrave. The test will exhibit the ultimate capabilities of the fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) product. It is said that the product could offer downloads speeds of 1Gbps and upload speeds of 400Mbps, given the essential equipment and conditions.

This is much ahead to the launch of BTs FTTP that will be available in the coming year. Liv Garfield, Director of strategy at BT said that the consumer will not require “Gigabit speeds” currently. To ensure the future-proof of the fibre broadband product, it was necessary to test its maximum speed capabilities.