Ministers halt automatic broadband roll-out for rural families because 'not everyone

[AtW]

"High speed internet will not be automatically delivered to countryside homes after ministers claimed some people living in rural areas do not "want to be connected".

The pledge to provide high speed broadband to every home in the UK has been abandoned by the government in an attempt to save money.

Instead fast broadband will only be provided in rural areas on request because, according to a Whitehall document, “it is unlikely that everyone will want to be connected”.

Campaigners and MPs accused the Government of giving up on providing people in the countryside with a fast internet connection.

Many of those affected live in parts of England which otherwise have a good a connection such as Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset and Kent."

Source: Ministers halt automatic broadband roll-out for rural families because 'not everyone wants to be connected'

oh FFS!!!

[SueEllen]

And farmers are suppose to do all their forms for government payments online. I wonder where farmers live...

[VectraMan]

And farmers are suppose to do all their forms for government payments online. I wonder where farmers live...

Of course you need gigabit fibre to fill out an online form.

[Old Greg]

Of course you need gigabit fibre to fill out an online form.

But with diversification in the agricultural sector, they're now moving into barnyard porn webcams, and they just can't get the HD quality demanded by the modern discerning consumer.

[WTFH]

Ministers halt automatic broadband roll-out for rural families because 'not e...

I blame the EU

(Just to save DimPrawn typing it)

[Hobosapien]

At least they've done Devon and Cornwall for all those rich Londoners with holiday homes down here.

Sat ~8 miles from nearest town surrounded by fields and 1 village pub but have fibre broadband thanks to BT.

Though they charge full whack for it as it's in a non-competitive area where no-one else has bothered to do unbundling at the local exchange (a little hut in a field down the lane ), so only BT and their 'budget' company PlusNet offering services here. Can't have it all I suppose.

[NickFitz]

Expect to see this kind of pseudo-rationalisation more often: "We're going to stop giving people blood transfusions as some people (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) don't want them. And what about other forms of medical care? Some Christian Scientists don't want them either, so the NHS can go too."

[AtW]

Of course you need gigabit fibre to fill out an online form.

You do due to the way many web sites are designed - with one million embedded scipts from external sites

[DimPrawn]

Only London matters. Turn off the Internet for anyone outside London. Money saved can be used for some new bridges.

Architects Run Wild With Proposals for Another New London Bridge | Gizmodo UK

[BrilloPad]

Only London matters. Turn off the Internet for anyone outside London. Money saved can be used for some new bridges.

Architects Run Wild With Proposals for Another New London Bridge | Gizmodo UK

Why not do something like the old London bridge and build houses on it?

Sure it would cost a few trillion. But average flat prices will be zillions soon.