Scottish residents claim disproportionate broadband coverage must be addressed

Homeowners and business people in Scotland claim more must be done to introduce fibre optic broadband to areas not yet covered by rollout projects.

Although most of the country's major cities have been introduced to some level of next-generation access, many residents have become frustrated that their connection speeds are being dwarfed by those at properties just yards away.

David Osmond runs Forfar Antiques and Curios in the Tayside village of Aberlemno. He told the Evening Telegraph: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not good here. In some parts it's brilliant, but in others it's not happening. I think if there were more Wi-Fi hotspots it would be better for people."

A host of towns and cities have been introduced to superfast speeds with the help of public funding thanks to the government's Broadband Delivery UK scheme.

The initiative has seen BT perform installations at numerous exchanges that would otherwise not have been viewed as commercially viable, but some of the most rural areas of Scotland are still struggling with speeds that are well below the UK average because of a lack of infrastructure investment.