Nottingham, Southampton and Manchester have been named the worst cities in Britain for internet outages.
Nottingham took the unenviable title as the UK’s “outage capital” after homes recorded a total of 9.2m hours without broadband, which equates to an average annual loss of 70 hours or almost three full days, according to a report from the utility comparison website Uswitch.com.
Southampton and Manchester were the next worst-hit locations. Nottingham, with a population of 337,000, replaces Edinburgh in 2021 and Bristol in 2020 as the worst city for broadband outages.
Outages caused issues for remote and flexible workers operating from home, with 16% of those affected saying the estimated cost to the economy of the impact on their work amounted to almost £1.3bn.
