The girls who make the cold calls are always certain there will be no problems. The engineers who turn up always say it’s impossible.

The Internet has redefined “the countrysideâ€. It is no longer a place where farmers grow crops, or the unspeakable pretend to be hunting the uneatable.
In the early twenty-first century, wherever you live on the planet, you live in the countryside if you live too far from a relay station to get broadband.