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Areas without a broadband service have been called “Not Spots” for some time, but now Prince Charles has become involved in the rural broadband argument and has renamed these areas as “Broadband Deserts”.
This case is clear enough anyway, as currently there are millions of households that cannot get a broadband service that is anywhere near the minimum 2 Mbps government target for 2012 and then there are those places where broadband is an impossible dream.
It is these areas that the Prince is concerned with.
They are mainly rural farming communities, but that is no excuse for BT to have left these areas with no chance of ever getting broadband.
According to Prince Charles, these farms and communities are missing out and are facing a handicap, simply because of poor or no broadband.
Maybe if we had a government-owned telecomms company it would provide rural broadband without looking solely at costs. All those Tory voting farmers got the utiliities privitised and now they are moaning about privitised utilities.