It seems everyone has recently been talking about the broadband situation in the UK, with the problem of connecting rural areas through a broadband service being a much-discussed issue. Now, with a new service just about anyone can find out which areas of the UK have the most developed broadband network and which are the most broadband deprived.
This has been made possible by a new geography website that provides an interactive map of the UK depicting Internet speeds and broadband take-up. This website has been jointly developed by the analysts Point Topic and Gavurin.
The service is very straightforward to use and is available free of cost. By choosing to view the regional 2009 UK broadband speeds charts, one can easily see the present situation of broadband speeds in the UK. The speeds are divided into three categories -below 2Mbps, between 2Mbps and 8Mbps and above 8Mbps.
London with an overwhelming 90% of the connections in the highest speed category comes at top while Wales and Northern Ireland are stuck near the bottom with some of the lowest speeds in the country. For a quick and accurate comparison of what is available for you in your area, click Broadband Genie for more info.
Point Topic chief executive, Oliver Johnson said after the launch that they were building the site as part of their geography broadband service and that their clients would be able to easily access the datasets of the last few years along with the newer online updates by using the interface that is both straightforward and intuitive.
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