Dorset community calls for broadband upgrades

Campaigners in the Dorset village of Uploders have highlighted their frustration at a lack of progress in the delivery of improved broadband access for their local community.

Bridport News reports the village was left off the latest round of investment for the delivery of superfast broadband infrastructure rollouts and residents have therefore made their frustrations felt in a new petition to Dorset County Council.

With a government commitment to the delivery of superfast broadband for 95 per cent of the nation, campaigners in Uploders fear it is smaller and more remote communities that will be left behind in the internet slow lane.

Local campaigner Claire Upton told the news provider: "[Investment appears] to have gone to the cheaper, easier bits, leaving out those areas which really needed public investment - public money going to where it is least needed, not where it is most needed."

She added the situation is simply "not fair" and it is communities in rural areas that will face the damaging consequences of poor broadband access in the long-term.