Britain's biggest broadband cities revealed

Swindon homes are more likely to have a broadband connection than anywhere else in the UK, a new report reveals. According to research from broadband measurement company Point Topic, Swindon is ‘the most broadband place in Britain’ in terms of the share of homes which already have broadband - more than 50 per cent. The City of London is top broadband place when it comes to the number of broadband lines per person, with almost 1.4 DSL or cable modem connections per resident, the figures show, with this due to the large number of businesses in the area. According to Point Topic, Swindon’ s broadband take-up is due to a high proportion of young people and good coverage by the ntl:Telewest cable network and BT’ s DSL. Other most ‘broadbanded’ towns are in the south of England include Wokingham, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Watford and Stevenage, all with 48 per cent or more households with broadband. According to Point Topic’s findings, more than 50 Local Authorities districts in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have fewer than one in four homes with broadband connection. Most of them are in the more rural areas, particularly in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, but they include some urban centres such as Dundee, Carlisle and Merthyr Tydfil. Point Topic said they suffer from the opposite factors to Swindon, such the lack of availability of a cable choice in Carlisle and Merthyr Tydfil. http://www.point-topic.com/

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