Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study

Broadband subscribers in Scotland suffer the most outages in the UK, according to Broadband Genie, with customers of BT typically experiencing the fewest.

The internet comparison site says it analyzed 3,200 subscriber contracts around the country, and bases its league table on the number of outages lasting more than 48 hours that customers experience for every £100 ($134) of contract value.

Users in Scotland encounter 0.67 service disruptions, the most for every "ton" of cash they spend, whereas billpayers in Yorkshire and the Humber have to deal with just 0.15 outages for every hundred in outlay.

There is also a city league table on Broadband Genie's website, showing that people in Glasgow are the worst off of all, seeing 0.94 outages, followed by Belfast on 0.57 and London on 0.53.

The city with the lowest level is Gloucester, where customers experience 0.02 ...