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Originally Posted by shalym
So what about people who live too far from the switching station to use DSL? Does Britain have any other type of High Speed Internet available? Or do those people just do without Internet Access?
Shari
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Over 99.9% of the UK population is connected to an ADSL-enabled exchange. There are indeed rural communities which are too far from the telephone exchange to get ADSL. They either use old-fashioned dial-up, use satellite internet (VERY expensive), or, in a few cases, communities have got together to install their own internet backbone, often fibre-based, and very high speed.
Cable is available to some, but generally only to people in larger towns (it's not available where I live).