[Keith]

As for internet costs - many ISPs provide a so called 'social tariff', BT in particular has done so for a long time. It's like £10 or £15 a month for a service that can already support all the streaming you'd ever want to do.

Going slightly off-topic it'll be interesting to see what landline providers do in the next few years. Openreach has stopped selling analogue phone lines to new customers earlier this month, and will be switching off the analogue phoneline by the end of December 2025.

I wonder if in the long term landline providers may end up providing a free basic 10 Mbit/s broadband service, designed to allow phones and limited streaming TV services (paid for via general taxation).