 In January 2016, a cross-party report by the British Infrastructure Group of MPs, working from data from the Office for National Statistics found that around 5.7 million broadband customers in the UK had internet connections that did not reach Ofcom’s acceptable minimum speed of 10Mbit/s.Around 3.5 million of the customers affected lived in rural areas.The Digital Economy Act 2017 originally included a proposal for a legal right to a minimum download speed but this was dropped before the bill became law.