8
Mar
2010
Bringing the Internet to the Rest of Europe
According to recent studies, the lack of mobile coverage and internet in many rural regions has become the main reason why the younger generations tend to migrate to more populated urban areas and why the gap between the regions continue to grow.
Teenagers and young adults are first to feel the disconnection with their generation due to the fact that there is hardly any mobile or internet service in many rural areas. While over 60% of urban environments would allow you to access a mobile network or even the internet easily, this number drops down to a frighteningly low 1.5% in rural areas.
With society becoming more and more reliant in internet access, social networking and doing business online, plenty of people are finding themselves unable to keep up when forced to live in areas that are pretty far away from the rest of the world –in terms of getting online that is.
Even adults in rural areas are finding trouble with the limited options for having mobile coverage since there are plenty of areas in the UK that only have network coverage for specific providers –as other mobile network operators are not able to expand as much as their competitors.
There has already been talk of the possibility of a new legislation that would force operators to open their services to other subscribers for a small “roaming charge” –similar to travelling outside the country where access to local providers is absent.
Education is also another major issue –with the internet being the major source of information for children for doing research, homework and social growth outside of class, there are now calls for increasing the number of Government initiatives in many rural areas.
Read more about the lack of mobile and net coverage and its effects in rural areas at the Guardian UK.
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