The Scottish Government has pledged £5m to get broadband to all corners of the country, paying particular attention to rural areas.

While the aims for the UK is to get "superfast" speeds to most of the UK, Scotland have decided to focus on getting all homes connected with an equivalent broadband speed before looking at increasing the speed.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment Secretary, Alex Neil, was quoted as saying:

"This funding allocation is an acknowledgement of the particular issues facing the remote and rural parts of the Scottish economy and of the collaborative efforts being made by colleagues in the South of Scotland to progress an improved digital infrastructure."

"We have set out our ambition for all of Scotland to have access to next generation broadband by 2020, with significant progress to be made by 2015."

He then went on to say:

"Meeting the challenge of delivering this service to rural areas in particular is a key priority of our Digital Strategy."