The debate surrounding next generation broadband networks (NGN's) is only just hotting up but it's still easy to forget about rural areas, some of which continue to experience difficulty getting existing broadband technology.

Residents of the Calder Valley, which is close to Bradford but apparently not close enough, have called a meeting to discuss this very problem on Wednesday:


There's no harm in getting the ball rolling early, although in this case the government and wider industry has yet to even agree a way forward so we don't hold out much hope for the Calder Valley.

Having said that, the problem they are to discuss will ultimately become one for many more of the UK’s most isolated areas, especially if BT adopts a similar strategy to its ADSL rollout where the technology was initially only installed where it made economic sense.