Ensure that Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles get a real broadband service.
Why is this important?
Everything is online nowadays. We are expected to run our affairs this way, pay bills etc yet there are areas in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and many other rural areas throughout the UK that have no broadband service. We are told to buy into a satellite service as a means of solving this shortfall, yet no subsidy exists to aid in this process. Satellite broadband is costly and is beyond many pockets to fund. It needs to be the case that providers are forced to install the cables even if its a loss leader for them.
They have so far avoided their responsibility and have broken promise after promise. Successive governments have failed in the same way. WHY?
Today a report was published that seems to be a "WASHING OF THE HANDS" WHEN IT COMES TO RURAL BROADBAND PROMISES. When will we actually get the service we have been promised for the last decade?
