Countryside Agency Warns of Digital Divide

95% of the urban population has affordable access, compared

with only 26% of market town residents, 7% in rural villages and a mere 1% in remote rural areas. Agency chairman Ewen Cameron stated that this growing divide hinders economic growth in the country's rural regions.

"Lack of broadband access can present an expensive obstacle to new rural businesses, denying them markets for their products and services," he said. Cameron hopes that plans to connect the unconnected will succeed in providing access to 80-90% of the population within three years.

Source: news.ft.com