Working from Frome can be lovely - but can be a challenge too. (Parking) But one universal moan about the town is the speed and coverage of the internet.

Now the latest report on internet speeds across the UK has revealed what we already knew.

A report from the houses of parliament puts Frome at the woeful 29th worst constituency for superfast broadband coverage.

news paper which reported the latest report from the commons on internet speeds across the UK.

Somerton & Frome constituency ranked as the 29th worst constituency in the UK for superfast broadband coverage.

As an area we still only have 88.5% super fast speeds, according to the House of Commons report.

According to The Leveller "Somerton & Frome's coverage is so poor that it ranks alongside places like Brecon and Radnorshire, Perth and Dumfries & Galloway. " Adding: " Wells constituency has the best superfast coverage in our patch of Somerset. Yet it is still in the bottom quarter in the country. Wells does at least have 95% broadband coverage. "

This is the table of results for what we get, but it is very noticeable that in rural parts it is a very very poor picture.

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The criteria used for the study is :

• Superfast Availability: the percentage of lines that were capable of receiving download speeds of at least 30 Mbps in January 2023. Superfast availability measures the speeds available to consumers in an area. It doesn't show the proportion of lines that are actually receiving superfast speeds, because consumers often need to subscribe to specific packages in order to receive superfast speeds.
• Gigabit Availability: the percentage of premises that were capable of receiving speeds of 1 gigabit per second (1 Gbps) in January 2023.
• Average download speed: speeds actually being received in May 2022 based on the mean average. This may reflect consumer choice as well as line quality, since users sometimes have access to packages offering higher speeds than those they are actually receiving. This is a mean average, meaning that lines with high speeds (e.g. gigabit speeds) will have a disproportionate impact on the average. Ofcom's source data contains median download speeds for constituencies.
• Unable to receive decent broadband: premises below the Universal Service Obligation in January 2023 – those unable to receive 10 Mbps download speed or 1 Mbps upload speed, which Ofcom regards as necessary components of 'decent broadband'. This measure counts only premises that cannot receive the above speeds from fixed broadband, fixed wireless technologies, and mobile broadband.