UK will struggle to up Broadband Speed to meet Targets

According to PointTopic, a UK based broadband think-tank, the government is going to have an ‘uphill struggle’ to fulfil its pledge to bring broadband of a minimum speed of 2 Megabytes per second to its Great Britain. The company has produced a breakdown of all the areas in the country that are not yet up to that speed and it makes for troubling reading.

Northern Ireland is the worst placed with more than 30 percent of all households failing to meet the 2Mbps standard. Wales is only slightly behind with 29.9 percent of all homes failing to meet the standard. Predictably, the best area is London, where only 1.2 percent of the population are out of range. However, it is the only section of the UK that falls below 10 percent.

The think-tank has described the scale of the task as massive and has advised the government to seek cooperation between it, the regulator and the operators if it is going to have any success. This crossroads for the UK’s broadband  provision comes 10 years after the first broadband connection was established in the UK. Now analysts are predicting that adoption will reach 90% of all UK homes within another 10 years, making a success of it is critically important.

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