Europemedia.net reports the frustration of

Europemedia.net reports the frustration of UK internet service providers who complain that not enough telephone exchanges are equipped to handle broadband. BT claims that 60% of homes and 70% of internet users could get ADSL if they want it, but some ISPs are starting to question that figure because of the numbers of people they're having to knock back. The most likely problem is that the south-east of England, and other high-density parts of the country, are well served, but that vast tracts of more rural Britain are not. We've seen this before with mobile phone roll-out: the final few percent of the population is always the hardest part to serve. Not that that's much consolation to the people who miss out.