Broadband: Surrey
(asked on 11th March 2015) - View Source
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 proportion of households with access to fibre-optic broadband in (a) Woking constituency and (b) Surrey in each of the last five years.
House of Commons Library analysis (http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN06643.pdf) of Ofcom postcode data related to June 2014 suggested the number of premises with superfast (NGA) availability across the Woking constituency was then about 97%. Historical constituency data is not available.
The following data taken from Ofcom Infrastructure Reports indicates coverage in Surrey between 2011 and 2014. The Department is not aware of data for 2010. Ofcom calculated 2011-14 coverage figures using different methodologies and in 2014 produced two sets of figures. Further details can be found on the Ofcom website: http://maps.ofcom.org.uk/
County | Proportion of households in postcodes served by NGA networks 2011 | Proportion of households in postcodes served by NGA networks 2012 | Proportion of premises in postcodes served by NGA networks 2013 | Proportion of premises able to receive NGA broadband services 2014 | Availability of superfast broadband (30+Mbit/s) 2014 |
Surrey | 77% | 80% | 85% | 93% | 89%
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