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Ofcom’s latest figure from December is that only 0.2% of premises can’t get at least 10Mb broadband, which is also the minimum requirement for Sky Glass/Stream. I would imagine this is significantly lower than the proportion of properties that can’t have a satellite dish.

On the subject of rural broadband, I live in a small Yorkshire village which only got mains drainage about 20 years ago, still isn’t on the gas main, and the nearest shop is about two miles away. Yet we’ve had FTTC broadband for about eight years, and work is underway right now to install FTTP.

The assertion we keep hearing that rural areas have terrible broadband is way out of date. It’s only really still an issue for individual isolated properties that aren’t part of a village – and even those have the option for satellite broadband. Plus my understanding is the contracts for current rural FTTP schemes are for them to cover all properties in a given area including isolated premises.

The requirement has changed now to 25mb. Plenty of houses don’t have that and can’t afford the price of satellite broadband. www.cordbusters.co.uk