"Our communications network must be regarded as a strategic, national asset. The government's strategy lacks just that - strategy," said committee chairman Lord Inglewood.

"The complex issues involved were not thought through from first principle and it is far from clear that the government's policy will deliver the broadband infrastructure that we need - for profound social and economic reasons - for the decades to come."

also found that the UK has the lowest penetration of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in Europe, with only 0.05 percent of households connected.

The UK government has said that it hopes to have the best broadband network in Europe by 2015, and has committed a minimum of £730 million up until 2015 to support the rollout.