Plans for increased broadband connection speeds still an issue

A Recent report released by the network equipment manufacturer, Cisco has given the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) the chance to make even more people aware of the issues facing users in both rural and remote locations across the UK.

Even before Cisco released its damning report on the state of UK broadband services the CLA had voiced their concerns over the state of internet access in many of the poor rural regions around the country but now its has found a means to let even more people know in the form of this latest report.

IT company, Cisco found in its report that when it comes to average broadband connection speeds the UK placed in 31st place out if the 66 countries around the world.

Although the governments current plan, which is part of the Digital Britain report, is to provide everyone in the country with minimum Broadband connection speeds of 2Mbps it has been claimed by the CLA that as many as 42 percent of homes in rural parts of the country are not able to connect to the internet at the necessary broadband speeds.

The UK currently has 166 000 areas where broadband access is either limited or completely unavailable according to the latest data released by network operator, BT.

These ‘not-spots’ consist of both homes and small businesses that are simply unable to get even the slowest broadband connections because they are simply too far away from the nearest local telephone exchange.

The advice that has been given by the CLA is that the government should be working towards providing the country with a minimum connection speed of 10Mbps and should get rid of its plans to roll out services that will provide average connection speed of 2Mbps.

Source – Tech Watch