Which countries in Europe have the worst broadband coverage?

Which countries in Europe have the worst broadband coverage?
By Chris Harris
Share this articleComments
Share this articleClose Button

More than a dozen EU countries have poor broadband coverage in rural areas, latest figures reveal.

ADVERTISEMENT

More than a dozen EU countries have poor broadband coverage in rural areas, latest figures reveal.

The data, published in a report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA), shows fast internet availability in the countryside is below 50% of households in Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Romania, Estonia, Spain, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Croatia, Greece and Finland.

ECA said while Germany’s coverage in rural areas was 54% it had been slow at rolling fast broadband to rural areas.

Map: fast broadband coverage in Europe, 2016

Fast broadband = 30 megabytes-per-second. Source: IHS Markit, Point Topic

Table: fast broadband coverage in Europe's rural areas (2016)

This shows the percentage of households that have access to fast broadband (30 megabytes per second) versus the share of those that have the speeds across the whole country. We've also calculated the disparities between the two.

Share this articleComments

You might also like

Europe dominates global broadband speed ranking