On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:58:28 +0000, bert wrote:

About 80% [1]of people who live in rural areas have chosen to do so why
should I pay for their mail deliveries - or their broadband or their bus
services etc?

Why should the rural dwellers pay for your street lights, policing of
the town centre binge drinkers,

Broadband is a bad example, rural dwellers pay the same subs for a
generally much poorer service:

http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2014/superfast-bb-surge/

Nov 2013 average speeds:
Urban: 31.9 Mbps
Sub-urban: 21.8 Mbps
Rural: 11.3 Mbps

If you are thinking of the rollout of FTTC, that has been paid for by
BDUK and county councils but covers both builtup and rural areas.
Note that builtup areas tend to get FTTC first and rural areas second
or even not at all. Many places are stuck with ADSL2 ("up to 8 Mbps")
and even then whole villages may only get 2 Mbps or less. iPlayer no
chance...

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Cheers
Dave.