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Story: Broadband: The state we're in

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I live in a village in the north west of england.
BT has set a trigger level of 350, which i'ld be surprised if theres 150 computers in the area never mind the ridiculous amount of computers BT assumes are present in a village of this size. But then again i'm surprised BT even know where silloth is in the country. We have a local group offering wireless broadband, which i ordered and when they came on the third arranged appointment all they told me was i could not recieve a signal. So there answer was rather stick the aerial on a pole on the side of my house or they would have to install a node. That was over two months ago. I would have thought if they had any clue what they were doing they would of already planned for this exact situation, but like most companies in the UK they are a bunch of cowboys. I personally think the government should subsidise the rollout of broadband to the parts of the country BT are not willing to commit to, as it was the government shouting about broadband britain by 2005, or are we in the rural areas not part of britain in this equation. Maybe the government should subsidise an alternative telecommunications network and bring other telecommunications companies that aren't run by imbecilic dinosaurs in to use the network thus creating competition for the lacklustre telecommunications monopoly we have had this country for decades namely BT.

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