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T he dire state of London’s broadband network has been laid bare in a new report which found the capital ranks a paltry 76th in global download speeds. London average download speeds currently stand at 79 megabytes per second, according to the Speedtest Global Index, making the capital more than twice as slow as Lyon and Madrid and almost three times as slow as the average rate in New York. Broadband download speeds are barely faster than London’s mobile speeds, at 67 megabytes per second, in which the city ranks 42nd globally, lagging far behind the biggest cities in, Canada,...