Fibre is all well and good for the urban environment, (UK needs broadband offensive) but for those of us in rural areas - yet only 15 miles from the hotbed of technological innovation that is Cambridge - it is unlikely that the case for high investment will justify deployment until the copper needs replacing.

Yet most places are served by mobile phones. What is now needed is for the mobile networks to stop trying to force broadband users to use their phone networks to access the internet but to branch out into WiFi, using their extensive aerial networks to bring high speeds universally.

John Loader