Broadband: South East
(asked on 23rd June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress he has made on improving the availability of superfast broadband in (a) the Thames Valley and (b) Windsor constituency.
I can confirm that the Berkshire broadband project was allocated £2.03m, which was matched by the Berkshire councils, the project signed its supplier contract on 04 October 2013 and is proposing to make available superfast broadband to over 17,000 premises that would not otherwise have got it.
Ofcom monitors and reports on broadband and the table is of Next Generation Access availability across Berkshire between 2012 and 2013:
Local Authorities | 2012 | 2013 |
BRACKNELL FOREST | 76.8% | 96.2% |
READING | 92.9% | 95.0% |
SLOUGH | 91.7% | 96.6% |
WEST BERKSHIRE | 59.5% | 65.1% |
WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD | 83.1% | 89.7% |
WOKINGHAM | 87.3% | 92.5% |
Berkshire | 81.7% | 88.5% |