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31 May 2003

As the BBC reports, The Countryside Agency’s latest survey indicates while 95% of urban households have access to affordable broadband internet services, only 7% of rural villages are connected. In remote rural areas, this figure is just 1%.

I would be surprised however if this included some of the newest potential approaches to cracking this problem, like wireless broadband mesh networks or broadband via balloon.