A new report has confirmed that Nottinghamshire is amongst the best places in the country for superfast broadband.

Coun Kay Cutts, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, welcomed the broadbandchoices.co.uk study, which found that residents and businesses in the county have the second highest download speeds in the country.

Using the latest OFCOM data compiled by the County Councils Network, the new report showed the average download speed in Nottinghamshire was 54.4Mbps, compared to an average for English counties of 37.65 Mbps and overall national average of 43.6Mbps. Only residents in Hertfordshire can perform tasks like downloading documents, music and video or stream Netflix TV faster than people living in Nottinghamshire.

A total of 97.68% of homes and businesses in Nottinghamshire are currently able to access superfast broadband speeds (30 Mbps or quicker), compared to an East Midlands average of 97.06% and UK average of 95.46%.
Superfast broadband availability in the Mansfield district (99.57%) is better than in most UK cities, including Nottingham (98.9%).

The Better Broadband for Nottinghamshire (BBfN) programme, led by the county council, has invested more than £30m in the county’s digital infrastructure since 2014.

Openreach announced in November that Nottinghamshire was to be the first place in the East Midlands to be included in its ‘Fibre First’ programme, where fibre optic cables take reliable, ultrafast broadband right to people’s front doors.

Coun Kay Cutts (above left) is pictured at the launch of the Openreach Fibre First programme with Openreach managing director Kim Mears and Openreach fibre engineer Reese Orton.