Many broadband connection speeds in the UK are too slow says report

It has been found in recent research that broadband speeds of 2 megabits per second or higher are unavailable to as many as 3 million households throughout Britain, which comes just as the European Union are setting guidelines for investment in broadband.

The promise made by the government in its recent Digital Britain report to provide mobile broadband access speeds of 2Mbps or higher to every home in the UK by 2012 could be missed according to research carried out recently by the BBC.

The commitment by the government to make more of its public services available online and to make them as easy as possible for as many people as possible was made back in January.

As it stands telecommunication companies are only obliged to provide lines with dialup connection speeds, which is a speed of 28.8Kbps, and this increase to 2Mbps would mean that everyone would have access to interactive content and a viable means of either downloading or streaming both audio and video content.

With a significant amount of websites now requiring greater connection speeds the call was made by the communication minister, Lord Carter, for the provision of best mobile broadband connection speeds of 2Mbps or more for everyone in Britain.

Although it was original thought that only the more rural areas of the country would be what is commonly being referred to as ‘notspots’ but this latest research by the BBC has found that streets in some of the country’s main cities and many suburban area are currently incapable of reaching these kind of speeds.

This limited or complete lack of pay as you go mobile broadband access was originally thought to be limited to a small pocket of areas but the research that has been carried out by Samknows for the BBC has found that these connection speed issues are a problem throughout the UK.

As part of a project to provide broadband access to 100 percent of the EU, the European Union are to be investing about 1 billion Euros in order to reach this goal.

Source – www.ukauthority.com