Asked by: John Robertson (Labour - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the average broadband speed in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries (Ofcom) publishes broadband coverage data for the UK; its 2013 UK fixed-line broadband performance report indicates the following average modem synchronisation speed for the Glasgow City, Scotland and the UK. Data by Constituency area is not available.
Average modem sync speed 2013 | |
Glasgow City | 17.2 Mbit/s |
Scotland | 15.8 Mbit/s |
UK | 17.6 Mbit/s |