Not entirely true.
I used to be a part of a gaming community of around 25 people and we just used to play games in small groups. Some of us were Brits, some French, One Spanish, then a lot Dutch, Sweedish and Norwegian. I remember one night one of the Dutch gamers, who's name was Sophie, was explaining "that the British are so far behind on internet compared the European countries" she then proceeded to say "Over in the Netherlands around 850MBps down is pretty common and nearly everyone has it (This is in Amsterdam) so people, including myself, even have upto 1Gbps download." Now, obviously I don't now if this is entirely true, just what I have been told. Maybe if someone from the Netherlands could back this up? That would be great!