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What are these services?

Why don't BT just provide us with broadband in the first place?

North Yorkshire is England's largest rural county with a population of just under 600,000 spread out over roughly 3,000 square miles. The landscape is predominantly small distinct market towns with significant distance between them, comprising outlying properties, farms and agricultural land. This
means a density of just under 75 residents per km2 averaged across the 7 district areas. The county holds 4 out of the 8 most sparsely populated districts within England. This is in stark contrast to neighbouring conurbations, where the cities, towns and villages run in to each other and the population density figures are up to 20 times greater.

The geography and population distribution of North Yorkshire are the principal reasons as to why private sector organisations, like BT, are not implementing the infrastructure required to provide quality broadband across the whole of North Yorkshire. The low number of connections per kilometre makes developing the infrastructure commercially unattractive. As a consequence the county is a low business priority.




North Yorkshire County Council, County Hall, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7 8AD | Tel: 0845 8 72 73 74 | Fax: 01609 532009
This page was last updated on 20 May 2011