If you don't have home broadband then fear not, because there are lofty plans afoot to guarantee all UK households access to broadband.
A draft report by Lord Carter on the future of UK telecoms and the media sector proposes a "universal service commitment" to broadband along the lines of what's in place for postal and telephone services.
According to the FT the report, due out in a few weeks, calls for a minimum of 2Mb broadband to be made available to every home in the UK by 2012 - no matter what cloud-scraping mountaintop or out of the way hamlet you're stuck in.
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