The government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, which has a budget of £530m (rising to £830m by 2017) to help 90% of "people in each local authority area" gain access to a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) service by 2015, has hinted that its budget won't just be focused on rural areas and will in fact also go towards funding "proposals for very high speed broadband in cities".

Until recently BDUK's focus had been to support areas where private sector investment could not reach, which typically included rural locations. Indeed most of the initially allocated funds have supported that position, although BDUK's webpage does cover "bringing superfast broadband to all parts of the UK".

The seemingly new strategy, which was uncovered by the Telegraph, surfaced as part of a job advert for the position of Programme Management Office and Finance Lead at the BDUK.


In response to the query BDUK has simply reiterated its primary goals and ignored the primary query. However it's a common misconception that rural areas are the only ones to suffer woeful broadband performance. Plenty of large towns, cities and suburbs, such as Milton Keynes, still have serious problems.