Scots less likely to have broadband

A report that was recently released by the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has revealed that Scots are less likely to have a broadband connection than other people in the UK.

According to a recent report that was released by the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, broadband use in Scotland is lower than the rest of the UK, with people in Scotland less likely to have a broadband connection than other people throughout the nation. The figures showed that the number of people with broadband in Scotland came to sixty one percent whereas for the rest of the UK this came to seventy four percent.

In greater Glasgow the levels of broadband use was said to be below average, with the figure in the area coming to just fifty percent. According to reports the number of Scots that use the Internet is lower than the number of people across the UK that use the Internet, which is why the take up is thought to be much lower.

Ofcom’s Scottish director Vicki Nash said that she was concerned that with so many services now moving online many Scots who were not embracing the internet would be getting left behind. Figures showed that in Scotland thirty percent of adults said that they did not use the Internet at all, whereas this figure came to twenty percent across the rest of the UK.

The research from Ofcom showed that most of the people that did not have internet at home had no intentions of getting it within the next year. It is thought that whilst there are parts of Scotland where internet access is still challenging this is not always the main reason for Scots not having broadband access in the home.

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Source – BBC