While the Government's announcement of a Universal Service Obligation (USO) has been widely welcomed, some remain concerned that rural Britain will be left behind when it comes to broadband.

David Cameron is due to announce plans for every home and business in the UK to have access to faster broadband by the end of the current parliament in 2020. In a speech later today (9 November), the Prime Minister will outline the Government's plans for completing the rollout of faster broadband services to the entire country.

Superfast broadband is on its way to an additional 130 towns and villages in Nottinghamshire, it has been announced this week.

Rural residents and businesses in the Scottish region of Fife have received a boost after it was announced that £150,000 was to be invested in bringing superfast broadband to the area.

Ed Vaizey has reassured MPs that any universal service obligation (USO) created by the Government would not be limited by "some piddling European target of five megabits".

An extra 10,000 homes and businesses in Cheshire are to gain access to superfast broadband following the announcement of a new rollout.

The MP for Louth & Horncastle has taken her constituents' fight for better broadband to the government by bringing up the issues they are facing within a recent debate in the House of Commons.

The number of homes and businesses now able to access superfast broadband in the West Midlands has broken the two million mark. Ken Wigfield, West Midlands area policy chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, has welcomed the news, stressing just how important superfast broadband is for SMEs across the UK.

Homes and businesses in the London borough of Westminster have gained access to superfast broadband thanks to campaigning from the local council.

Families and businesses in rural Yorkshire have joined the calls for the Government to invest further in satellite broadband to help service the black spots that currently cannot access superfast broadband.