More than 2 million people are currently unable to get a fast broadband connection, while a further 166,000 cannot receive broadband at all.
In a newspaper article today, he made an impassioned plea for broadband access to be extended to even the most remote locations to help rural businesses promote their goods and overcome an economic crisis.
“The provision of services – without which no community can survive, let alone flourish – must be central to our efforts. And it has become clear that one of those services – the lack of access to high speed broadband – is putting many of those who work in rural communities at a severe disadvantage,” he said.
Charles, who decided to speak out as part of his wider work to defend the countryside, said access to the internet was increasingly a necessity but too many rural households were stuck in the slow lane.
“The handicap this places on those rural businesses, schools, doctors’ surgeries and local authorities, which inhabit these so-called ‘broadband deserts, is immense,” he said.
“And, even more worryingly, many of those who are being left in the internet’s “slow lane” are the very same people who look after the countryside on our behalf – Britain’s livestock farmers – and they are struggling as never before,” he said.
In his article in The Daily Telegraph, the Prince warned that the lack of broadband access could be the final straw for many farmers already facing a struggle to survive financially.
By Richard Palmer on Daily Express
Comment:
On rural is really hard get good broadband, why? Because for many big operators is not profitable build a infrastructure where houses ( customers ) are sometimes 1 mile from each other or even more ! So what to do !??? WISP and local business is a hope for countryside farmers !
By @BBireland
Rural broadband in UK not enought said PRINCE CHARLES
In a newspaper article today, he made an impassioned plea for broadband access to be extended to even the most remote locations to help rural businesses promote their goods and overcome an economic crisis.
Charles, who decided to speak out as part of his wider work to defend the countryside, said access to the internet was increasingly a necessity but too many rural households were stuck in the slow lane.
“The handicap this places on those rural businesses, schools, doctors’ surgeries and local authorities, which inhabit these so-called ‘broadband deserts, is immense,” he said.
In his article in The Daily Telegraph, the Prince warned that the lack of broadband access could be the final straw for many farmers already facing a struggle to survive financially.
By Richard Palmer on Daily Express
Comment:
On rural is really hard get good broadband, why? Because for many big operators is not profitable build a infrastructure where houses ( customers ) are sometimes 1 mile from each other or even more ! So what to do !??? WISP and local business is a hope for countryside farmers !
By @BBireland