UK has Upward Struggle to Achieve 2Mbps
Date: 26.02.2009
Experts have pointed out that the government faces a “massive challenge” in its promise to bring UK broadband up to a minimum of 2Mbps (megabits per second) nationwide.
The think tank Point Topic has produced it’s own breakdown of areas who currently don’t have much net speed. The results show that Northern Ireland is most poorly placed with 30% pf homes unable to get speeds of 2Mbps or above. Wales follows with 26.9% of homes are unable to get speeds of 2Mbps or above.
London however only has 1.2% of its population out of range.
A representative from Point Topic said, "The scale of the task is massive and in order to achieve it there needs to be co-operation between government, the regulator and operators such as BT.
Regional figures are listed below:
East Midlands - 15.2%
East of England - 15%
London - 1.2%
North East - 15.8%
North West - 10.8%
South East - 13.5%
South West - 19.9%
West Midlands - 10.4%
Yorkshire/Humber - 16.1%
Northern Ireland - 32.2%
Scotland - 15.6%
Wales - 26.9%
Here in the North West, home to Bite Digital, search engine optimsation Manchester and eCommerce Manchester, the percentage of the population who are out of range is 10.8%.
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