Property News · June 27, 2017

Local authorities not up to speed with fast broadband delivery


Eleven areas fail to provide the government’s minimum download proposal of 10Mbps, but speed issues aren’t confined to rural locations, says Which?It might be home to the Shard skyscraper, City Hall and Tate Modern, but the central London borough of Southwark has been named one of the 20 worst places in the UK for broadband speeds, in a list that stretches from Orkney to Bexhill-on-Sea.An analysis of 719,000 speed tests by the consumer organisation Which? found that 11 local authority areas didn’t meet the minimum download speed proposed under the government’s so-called universal service obligation (USO), which anyone in the UK would be entitled to request. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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