I AM disgusted by a recent communication, “Hampshire Superfast Broadband Programme Update”, from Hampshire County Council.

The promise of superfast broadband was to bring broadband to those area suffering with slow speed at the moment, NOT to upgrade those areas where the speed was already reasonable.

I live in a rural parish where nearly 400 homes and businesses suffer from sub 2K broadband with regular drops in this maximum speed leaving the internet crawling.

It’s a working village with a significant number of small and large businesses who all suffer as a result of the slow internet available.

As long as the measure continues to be the percentage of premises reached the rural areas with lower population density are going to lose out.

The large internet providers will focus on the large towns and cities, so the whole focus of this campaign should be on getting decent broadband to the less attractive areas that commercially will not be covered.

The council needs a measure that encourages firms to attack the rural dimension for giving a disincentive to BT if there are properties not upgraded within five miles that have 50 per cent slower speeds.

The approach has to change if the goal of faster broadband for all is to be anywhere near reached.

Stuart Rippon, Church View, Barton Stacey, via e-mail