BT has refuted a claim by uSwtich that Cromarty Road in Stamford is Britain’s slowest street for broadband in the UK.
According to the uSwtich Broadband Speed Tracker, the Lincolnshire street received an average download speed of just 0.132Mbps, more than 500 time slower than the UK’s fastest road, which was Willowfield in Telford. uSwitch’s data was acquired from speed tests on uSwitch.com, and found that Lincolnshire had three of the slowest streets in the UK, while Essex had four.
uSwitch has said that its research highlights flaws in the government’s superfast broadband strategy, but BT has called the findings “inaccurate” and “misleading” and that residents of Cromarty Road have had average speeds of at least 10Mbps for at least a year.
Stent said that the government’s policy was geared towards urban areas, and that rural parts of the UK were receiving speeds so slow, “they might as well have no broadband at all.”
“However, most of Britain’s slowest streets for broadband are not in particularly remote areas, but in small towns, nearer to exchanges and where we would expect to see higher download speeds across the board,” she added. “Part of the problem is that Government funding for super-fast broadband is being dished out to councils, who don’t necessarily have a full view of the big picture.”
“Once again the uSwitch survey seems to be inaccurate and very misleading,” a BT spokesperson told TechWeekEurope. “The cabinet serving Cromarty Road, Stamford – which they have identified as Britain’s slowest street – has in actual fact been enabled for fibre broadband for more than a year now and so local residents can enjoy very high speed broadband.”
“Our data shows that customers in this street who have chosen BT Infinity have a line speed capability of around 40Mbit/s and those on BT Total Broadband an average of 10Mbps,” they added.
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