Leanne Townsend|Arjuna Sathiaseelan|Gorry Fairhurst|Claire Wallace
Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide
University of Aberdeen|University of Cambridge|University of Aberdeen|University of Aberdeen
article discusses danger growing digital divide rural areas presents broadband increasingly necessary delivery information health education business social security public leisure services access broadband become vital rural communities participate progressively digital economy overcome problems physical social isolation yet rural areas among excluded fast broadband developments although partly due technologicaleconomic barriers reaching remote locations even technology available adoption still low rural areas article explores problems providing broadband rural britain considers various technological approaches concludes key development areas policy government