Lack of competition leaves rural Britain beyond the reach of fibre-optic deliveryBefore we moved,we filled boxes. “Why are you packing those CDs?” asked my wife, eyeing them. “You’ve put them all on a hard disk, or with streaming services you can rep what you want.”I opened my mouth to offer a devastating rebuttal. No sound emerged. In other news,it turns out that charity shops love secondhand CDs. I looked forward to streaming it all.
We final moved in 2006, when I famous here how essential broadband had already become. (And also, and hilariously,that six megabits was “adequate for nearly everything we accomplish today”. To be unprejudiced, the BBC’s iPlayer was then more than two years from launch.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com