New figures show that more than 20,000 residents in the Black Country, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Wyre Forest have no access to useable broadband speeds.
The region has received £74 million in infrastructure funding under the Government's £5 billion Project Gigabit to address issues of poor mobile and broadband signal following complaints from residents and businesses in mainly rural communities.
Meanwhile parts of this region are among the worst locations for access. In Shropshire 6,633 homes are unable to get 10Mbits/s, the useable speed. In Powys there are 6,314; and in Birmingham there are 3,875 homes. “This is counter-intuitive to say the least, because full fibre connectivity is being funded for properties that already benefit from perfectly good broadband performance, while properties in more rural and harder to reach areas which are typically those suffering with the poorest landline broadband speeds are being excluded. We of course acknowledge that expanding the roll-out of full fibre broadband is a good thing.
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