Digital divide narrows but 1.5 million UK homes remain offline
Gap between UK broadband haves and have-nots narrows as people have gone online to escape the lockdown and ‘proxy internet’ users emerge, but a significant minority remain digitally excluded
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The ability for homes to access high-speed internet services has become critical in the new normal of the post-Covid hybrid world of work, and inadequate internet speeds have contributed to a digital divide since the first UK lockdown, but research from UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has revealed how deep the divide still is, although it is narrowing.
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