Back

Rural broadband

At last broadband is seen as an essential service like water and electricity. Rural areas, and some areas in towns and cities, are to get a service for the first time or at higher speeds. I was forced to use satellite broadband through tooway but, though very much better than landline, this was not without its problems. Tooway then disappeared at very short notice. There is no point in looking to BT or politicians to enable a decent service. Despite paying the same taxes, country dwellers are falling further and further behind. One solution is to start a private fibre project like the one by B4RN (Broadband For the Rural North). You can read about it by clicking the second option below.

Up to 2025 the only other option was 4G mobile, which gives a service that is acceptable for now. My experience with 4G can be read by clicking the third option down.

Hope seemed to be at hand in 2023. County Broadband has been given money to provide fibre to the premises in some rural areas. My village, which is in North Norfolk, was one of the projects. The offerings are reasonable as you see if you click the first option. However, I signed up for it, and was promised connection by 2023, but the company then reneged on its promise.

	County Broadband - reneged on its promise
	Fibre to the premises up to 2022
	Starlink
	4G in - goodbye satellite
	WISP in Norfolk

	Back

(C) Peter Scott 2013

Last edit 19 May 2025