According to the reports, a UK broadband Website, Samknows had worked out inroads into the problem as it not only aided the BBC in the survey, but also have been successful in issuing a map that shows the homes that are below the line of expectation of the government’s Digital Britain concept. The map can also be used by the government to reach out to these homes to provide them faster broadband connections.

The Samknows map was materialized by the comparison of information on the database of the services offered by the providers in the 85,000 telephone exchanges across Britain, with a UK postcodes sample. The website then worked out the distance of the properties from a specified exchange to come up with a picture of services  speed. This method very much relies on the fact that line length remains a critical factor in determining the defacto operation speeds of the services.

It is also fair to reckon the promise of the UK government, in the circumstances, of providing every household in the country with a broadband connection of at least 2Mbps speed by 2012. It is also worth pondering over another intriguing fact that a home needed to be located, in a radius lesser than 4 kilometers from an exchange to get the speeds of anything up to or above 2Mbps.