When we are out on the doorsteps in Headingley and Hyde Park, we often hear complaints from local residents about poor broadband connections. The providers offer super-fast speeds when people sign their contracts, but for hundreds of customers in Headingley and Hyde Park the reality is broadband that’s painfully slow, or even drops out altogether.

We don’t think people should be paying for something they aren’t getting, so we have launched a petition calling on the broadband providers to speed it up! It’s their responsibility to deliver what they promised – and if their infrastructure isn’t good enough to support the number of customers they have, they need to upgrade it.

We want to prove to the broadband providers just how many of their customers are feeling let down by this, so we have been out collecting signatures over the last few weeks – on the door-steps, in Leeds University Union and by phone. Everywhere, people have confirmed what we already thought – that this is a problem for almost everyone in our area; not just a few isolated households.

But to really make the broadband providers sit up and take notice, we still need more signatures. So if you live in the Headingley and Hyde Park area and have a slow broadband connection, please sign our petition today! Then share the link with your friends so that they can have their say too.

Here are some pictures from our campaign so far: