BRITAIN’S BROADBAND SPEED MAP
‘It’s extremely frustrating trying to do anything on the internet. Even calling up Boots on Google can take two minutes’
1. Abdon Avenue, Birmingham
2. Redwell Grove, West Malling, Kent
3. Darwin Street, Livingston, West Lothian
4. Derbeth Grange, Kingswells, Aberdeen
5. Derby Road, Duffield, Belper, Derbyshire
6. Chatsworth Road, Swindon, Wiltshire
7. Limeharbour,
Isle of Dogs, London
8. Clifton Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster
9. Feldspar Close, Sittingbourne, Kent
10. Mackenzie Road, Cambridge
Figures show the time it took to download a two-hour HD film (6GB). Source: uSwitch.com
the internet, stream download HD films.
This legal move is seen in the industry as a good way of speeding up the progression to full fibre, but the costs are still massive.
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1. Greenmeadows Park, Bamfurlong, Cheltenham
2. Poplar Avenue, Oldham, Great Manchester
3. Chesham Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire
4. Cynghordy, Llandovery, Ceredigion
5. St David’s Close, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
6. Broomhall, Worcester, Worcestershire
7. Milton Road, Cowplain, Waterlooville, Hampshire
8. Shaw Lane, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
9. Cross Lane, Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside
10. Pennant, Llanbrynmair, Powys quickly AST year Openreach spent £1.8billion on projects and will probably spend the same amount next year, with some 13,000 homes going fully fibre. The company aims to make 10 million homes fully fibre by the mid 2020s.
If they reach that target a further 20 million homes would have to be given access to full fibre by the early 2030s. Until then, the digital divide discovered by uSwitch will continue.
Nick Prior, who lives at a static home at Green Meadows in Bamfurlong, says: “It’s very slow. I go on my smartphone to get the sports news and
other bits. When I’m doing my banking I have to wait while it is buffering. It takes a minute or two.”
His wife Yvonne Fearn adds: “It is extremely frustrating trying to do anything on the internet. Even calling up Boots on Google can take a couple of minutes.
“A lot of elderly people live in this community and I don’t think they are too worried about internet access, but we get pretty fed up. You couldn’t run a business down here from home. Everything would take too long.”
At the nearby Dundry Nurseries garden centre, the owners recently paid for a fibre cable to be attached to the buildings to speed up all their computer systems.
Manager James McLean says: “I knew it was slow, but I did not realise that this area is the worst in the country.
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