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Local Government Association Start Campaign to Boost Broadband Speeds

The Local Government Association, which describes itself as the national voice of councils across the United Kingdom, has launched the “Up to Speed” campaign that aims to ensure “everyone in rural areas gets access to superfast broadband” and that nobody is stuck in a “digital twilight zone”

The new campaign is partly being pushed as a response to the Government’s proposed 10Mbps (Megabits per second) Universal Service Obligation (USO), which many have interpreted to mean that nobody in the final 5% of the country (mostly rural areas) will receive “superfast” speeds of greater than 24Mbps. We explored this confusion in more depth yesterday (here) and so won’t repeat ourselves now, but suffice to say that the reality is more complicated and many in the final 5% should have an option to get 24Mbps+.