Broadband: Rural Areas
(asked on 10th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of rural premises in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) England have access to superfast broadband.
Ofcom's 2017 Connected Nations report includes the following percentages in figure 5, measuring superfast availability at 30Mbit/s in May 2017, showing percentage point changes from a year earlier (pp).
| Urban coverage, % premises | Rural coverage, % premises |
UK | 95% (↑2pp) | 66% (↑7pp) |
England | 95% (↑1pp) | 69% (↑6pp) |
Northern Ireland | 97% (↑1pp) | 57% (↑5pp) |
Scotland | 94% (↑4pp) | 56% (↑10pp) |
Wales | 96% (↑3pp) | 66% (↑10pp) |
Source: Ofcom analysis of operator data