Today's BBC report on broadband speeds in the UK shows there is still a gap between the connection speeds available in urban areas and those available to many rural communities.

from : BlogPosts  3rd June 2008

Yesterday's news from Ofcom that rural areas have higher takeup of broadband than urban areas is welcome. But although take-up is higher, there is still a gap between the connection speeds available in urban areas and those available to many rural communities.

from : BlogPosts  23rd May 2008

Following the recent BBC report on broadband speeds in the UK, Ofcom has announced that it has launched a programme of independent research to identify the actual speed of broadband around the country.

from : BlogPosts  5th June 2008

Gill Payne, one of our Executive Directors, will be speaking at 'Digital Inclusion: Tackling Social Exclusion Through Technology' about rural digital inclusion.

from : Events  8th October 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Alston in Cumbria to see how one rural community is building its own superfast broadband network – Alston Fibremoor. As the Government’s plans for future superfast broadband take shape, rural communities are again facing the risk of being on the wrong side of the digital divide .Read the full press release

from : News  27th January 2009

The Government has announced that a new body ‘Broadband Delivery UK’ is to be responsible for rolling-out next generation broadband across the UK. At the same time a major report forecasting the future reach of next generation broadband across the UK has been published by the Government.

from : News  5th March 2010

We welcome today's publication of ‘Digital Britain: The Interim Report’. Access to higher-speed broadband remains an issue for rural areas.

from : News  29th January 2009

We are pleased to see the Prime Minster’s comments in today’s Daily Telegraph about the importance of super-fast broadband for the whole country.

from : News  8th January 2010

As part of our work on digital inclusion we were tasked with providing a rural perspective to the government's Digital Britain report. Our report 'Mind the Gap: Digital England - a rural perspective' raised the rural issues surrounding digital inclusion and highlighted recommendations for Lord Carter’s final Digital Britain report...

from : Projects  28th May 2009

This report is the result of a review of 13 early community broadband projects in England. The purpose of the review was to identify best practice activities by communities, local authorities and individual businesses to overcome the lack of broadband services in villages, small towns and rural business parks.

from : Publications  30th September 2006