As more and more internet broadband providers seem unwilling or unable to assist some of the more far-flung areas of the UK in connecting them to the network, it seems that many potential broadband customers have taken the situation into their own hands. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Humber is the latest to dig its own network with the revelation that a next generation 100 Mb per second fibre-optic broadband link has been installed under the sponsorship of FibreStream.
The amazing thing is that these particular actions are becoming more commonplace around the UK as more local communities and local businesses begin to appreciate the benefits of being connected to the World Wide Web with ultrafast broadband connectivity. It does however lay bare the promises made by the UK government and Internet service providers to ensure that the more rural areas of the UK are not left out. After all, the UK government is currently considering a so-called telephone tax which would hit every Internet broadband user in the UK and be used to pay for the ongoing extension of the national broadband network.
As we have mentioned on numerous occasions, mobile broadband and to a lesser extent, in the UK at least, satellite broadband could offer interesting alternatives to those in the more far-flung regions of the UK.