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IF uptake of the Whole Farm Approach is thought to be hampered by the state of rural broadband, a new online map of broadband provision in Britian supports that view.
The map shows clearly that rural areas have far slower connection speeds than urban areas.
The Broadband Geography website presents what is known as broadband layer data at a local authority level and it demonstrates that rural broadband speeds are unacceptable, particularly for business users.
The map is based on Britain’s 434 local authority areas and shows the number of consumer and business broadband lines in each area. It shows broadband take-up per household and head of population, and the proportion of homes which can get higher broadband speeds.
The service is provided by http://point-topic.com/ whose chief executive Oliver Johnson says the website offers at-a-glance access to information that can easily be missed on a spreadsheet.
“It gives a glimpse of how much information we already have, and a good understanding of where you start is essential to completing any journey.”
In a recent address to the London School of Economics, Ed Richards, chief executive of telecom watchdog Ofcom, estimated that 15 per cent of British households remain unable to access a broadband speed of even 2Mbps per second.
And he intimated that so-called rural exclusion was far higher than figures issued by BT suggested.
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