You want broadband? That'll be £45,000, BT tells couple

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couple who want a broadband connection for their home and guesthouse business have been told by BT it will cost £45,000 to have it installed.

Ray and Frei Walker have managed with an old 'dial-up' service for the last nine years at their detached Victorian home in Dufton, Cumbria.

But when they decided to change it up for high-speed broadband they were hit with the massive quote from British Telecom.

The company said the high price is to cover the cost of new equipment which it admits could also be accessed by others in the village.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249324/BT-tells-couple-installing-broadband-cost-45-000.html

Now compare with Finland :

Last year Finland's government announced that access to a broadband internet connection was a human right, and that everyone in the country must have a connection with a minimum speed of one megabit by this summer.

Now the country's going even further - by 2015 every household must be within two kilometres of a fibre optic cable supplying superfast broadband running at 100 megabits per second.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8477572.stm