UK broadband digital divide getting worse

The digital divide is kind of a gap between the fast pacing internet ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’. This news about the UK broadband digital divide was thought to be deeper than expected but a research made it clear the fact that it’s not just deeper, it a way down the earth.

Recently a survey was conducted that found out about the top 10 connected local authority ruled areas were the ones that were having the maximum broadband density in and around London and other home countries. On the other hand, the 10 lowest density areas were the rural areas of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, West Somerset as well as the spaces of Exmoor.

A lot of household densities were found in the suburban areas and the business areas densities were found near Tower Hamlets and the Westminster areas. This further explains that top 10 from the existing 25 broadband providers have occupied lines per every 100 people in Wandsworth (which is located in west London), to 20 in southern Buckinghamshire.

Dumfries and Galloway are considered as low density areas with around 6.3 lines per every 100 people down to Eilean Siar (which is located in Western Isles) with 4.9. This figure does not include the City of London which is by far the heavily populated area with booming broadband business.

Coming back to the detailed mapping of the broadband density deep down the postcode level, these figures have regarded density in number of broadband connection lines per 100 populations which also included the lines provided by BT and its network and cable TV modem connections.