Another 300 properties connected as part of Digital Scotland project

Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband has continued its roll-out of superfast broadband by connecting 300 houses and businesses in West Scotland.

The new connection has resulted in properties around Drumchapel gaining access to superfast internet in conjunction with a wider Scotland £410 million roll-out.

According to the latest figures by Think Broadband, nearly 99 per cent of all premises in Glasgow can access fibre broadband speeds of 30Mbps thanks to the Digital Scotland project. This programme has promised to deliver superfast broadband to 95 per cent of all Scottish households by the end of March 2018.

The latest roll-out comes after growing criticism over a lack of transparency in the broadband roll-out, particularly with concerns over the specific speeds and coverage the broadband can deliver.

Conservative MSP for West Scotland, Jamie Greene raised the issue at this week’s First Minister’s Questions and is supported by Audit Scotland, who urges the Scottish Government to release more data. Mr Green said: “There’s nothing wrong with the Scottish Government consulting the industry in this way. I hold the belief that a sensible mix of technologies from a range of suppliers may likely be the only way to reach every household and business.

"If so many are already supposedly connected to super-fast broadband why are our mailboxes full of letters of complaint from homes and business across Scotland who are being told that so-called access to broadband means the cabinet has high-speed capability, but they live too far from the exchange.”

He concluded his question by warning the First Minister of rural Scottish businesses being left behind in favour of the “central belt of Scotland.”

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