Broadband sharpens north/south divide

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Picture of the Angel of the North
Picture of the Angel of the North

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New research from uSwitch suggests that although broadband speeds are improving overall nationally (with Milton Keynes in particular speeding up), a fifth of us are still getting below 2Mbps.

This would mean taking 100 minutes to download a high quality film - that would be about as long as it takes to watch the film afterwards. Things are actually slowing down in Scotland: see that old North/South divide cropping up again?

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