Aberdeenshire and Shetland are the first local authority areas in Britain to have more than half of their homes and businesses connected to ADSL according to figures released by BT.

At the top of the ADSL broadband take-up league table is Aberdeenshire with 50.9 percent and Shetland closely following with 50.7 percent, with Scottish areas taking the top 5 places and it's national average of 33.3 percent ahead of the UK average of 31.2 percent.

1. Aberdeenshire 50.9 percent
2. Shetland 50.7 percent
3. Stirling 48.4 percent
4. Aberdeen 48.3 percent
5. Moray 47.9 percent
6. Monmouthshire 47.5 percent
7. Oxfordshire 46.8 percent
8. (eq.) Scilly Isles, Flintshire 46.4 percent
10. Highland 45.8 percent

The fact that nine out of  ten of the places are either in Scotland and Wales maybe due to the fact that these 'rural' areas have finally discovered broadband, but we daren't state this for a fact!!