Rural homes 'lead broadband UK'

[gkd_uk]

Rural households are now more likely to have a broadband connection than residents of towns, says Ofcom.

The regulator's regional communications market report shows that 59% of rural households have broadband compared to 57% of urban homes.

It is the first time that the country has overtaken the town, according to the report.

Four years ago urban dwellers were twice as likely to have broadband as those living in the country.

Read more of the article here - http/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7413244.stm

 

[temi]

Some how I find that hard to believe.

 

[DanielEZPZ]

Alot of those stats seem to be useless..

Anyway, I hope something is done to improve the speeds around here soon! I can't understand why America has a much faster service yet their lines must be longer than ours to span the country.

My home broadband is terrible, I'm on an 8MB plan and sync at a max of 1800kbps.