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Submitted: July 27, 2010 - 8:25am
Last updated: July 27, 2010 - 8:26am
Last updated: July 27, 2010 - 8:26am
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Financial Times
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Esther Bintliff
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Ofcom, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9HA, United Kingdom
The so-called "digital divide" between rural and urban areas in the UK is likely to widen further before it narrows, according to Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, as city dwellers benefit from a wider choice of broadband providers and Internet service providers are likely to invest in urban areas first. In a report published on Tuesday, Ofcom said that average download speeds in rural areas were half those in urban areas, at just 2.7 megabits per second compared to an average 5.8Mbit/s in urban areas.
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