Christmas 2020 will be remembered as the year we camped on the sofa to watch festive films in between video-calling loved ones from our homes. However, for some families in the Cotswolds, this year’s frustrations continued with new figures revealing crippling broadband speeds in some neighbourhoods. Across the local authority, broadband speeds range from a superfast 65.2 megabits (Mbps) per second to a snail-paced 0.8 Mbps, according to data from Uswitch.com. It means families using Zoom, Skype or Facebook to speak to relatives and friends were faced with annoying freezes, cut-outs and sound delays. Meanwhile, those downloading Christmas movie classics could have been left waiting up to 120 hours, compared to just one minute 20 seconds in neighbourhoods with the fastest speeds.